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LIFE A 
King Alfonso of Spain is wasting with an 
incurable disease. 
Sitting Bull requires a larger hat than 
Daoiel Webster did. 
Sir Moses Montefiore, the centenarian, 
has 311 grandchildren. 
The Express of Germany has not been 
able to walk for 18 months. 
Miss Mart Garrett, who inherits a third 
of her father’s more than princely fortune, is 
38 years old, accomplished and pretty. 
M r. Walker Blaine receives a salary of 
$3,500 a year as assistant counsel for the Court 
of Alabama Claims. He is also his father’s 
private secretary. 
Dr. Dblaunky, the French physiologist, 
declares that a person sleeping on his right 
side has incoherent and absurd dreams, but if 
sleeplug on bis left side, his dreams are intel¬ 
ligent. 
The groom of Maud S., the famous trotter, 
take« such care of her that on nights likely to 
grow cool, he goes to bed himself, his cot 
being in her stall, with but little clothing, so 
that he may be waked by the coolness in sea¬ 
son to blanket the horse if necessary. 
Mr. Wormlky, the colored caterer of 
Washington, lately deceased, was a man of 
great wealth and generosity. He was well 
and powerfully built, with perfectly straight 
features. He is said to have been the grand¬ 
son of Lord Cornwallis. He was an intimate 
friend of Charles Sumner. 
Dr. Alice McGillivray, in her recent in¬ 
augural lecture at the Women’s Medical Col¬ 
lege, of Kingston, Ontario, stated that sex 
distinctions are gradually disappearing from 
the Canadian educational institutions, the 
McGill College, at Montreal, moving slowly 
in that direction, aud the Toronto LTniversity 
haviug yielded the whole poiut. 
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe reports the prog¬ 
ress of the Woman’s Departmeut at the New 
Orleans Exposition, which is expected to 
eclipse that of the Philadelphia in lt>7f5, as 
satisfactory. Women will exhibit work there 
as artists, authors, photographers, publisuers, 
wood carvers, designers of interior decoration; 
in stained glass, metals, and textile fabiics, 
in scientific work, in the production of silk, 
and in domestic and practical ways. 
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with tho best 8hot Gun " Of course, t,ho liuutexV Puts and Rifle* will shoot still 
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losfeet. Send for Illustrated Price List to 
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