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receive $5,000 as a bonus from the Canadian 
Government, and is about to open a cartridge 
factory in the Dominion, materials for which 
will be admitted free of customs duty. 
Mr. Nichols is the representative of the 
Penobscot Indians in the Maine Legislature. 
He has a right to debate, but no voice. The 
tribe numbers about 500, and no desire for 
full citizenship exists among them. They are 
all Homan Catholics. 
John S. Wise, late Republican candidate 
for the Governorship of Va., is reported to 
have said that he is permanently out of 
politics and that he now intends to devote 
himself exclusively to the the study and prac¬ 
tice of his profession—the law. 
Miss Gordon has received, in memory of 
her illustrious brother, a haudsome volume 
containing an illminated address of sympathy 
signed by the Princesses of Great Britain, 
Peeresses, and the wives of Bishops and mem¬ 
bers of the House of Commons. 
That the Duke of Cumberland is in some¬ 
thing more than easy circumstances may be 
gathered from the fact that the gold and sil¬ 
ver plate which he has inherited from the late 
King of Hanover and the Duke of Brunswick 
weighs upwards of eight tons. 
The French papers tell an interesting story 
of the Shah of Persia in the capacity of art 
critic. Being displeased with a picture of 
Judith with the head of Holofernes, declaring 
the severed head untrue to death, his Majesty 
drew his cimeter and, decapitating a slave on 
the spot, convinced the trembling artist of 
his error. 
Ex- Judge Khllev, who is about to enter 
on bis thirteenth year in Congress, is over 70 
years of age. He ascribes bis present good 
health to his having stopped the use of tobacco 
in any shape. He chewed and smoked for 55 
years, when his health was shattered. He 
gave up tobacco and now feels like a new 
William L. Scott, of Erie. Penn., is said 
to be the richest man of the next House of 
Representatives. His wealth is estimated at 
$119,000,000, invested in railroads, oil lands, 
coal mines, etc. He was a page in the House, 
when Webster, Clay and Calhoun were still 
active at Washington. Mr. Scott is a Demo¬ 
crat, is of medium size, and about 45 years of 
age. 
“I shall live to sail through it,” remarked 
M de Lesseps last week on bis 80th birthday 
concerning the Panama Canal. The Pope, the 
ex-kbedive of Egypt, Empress Eugenie and 
some of the shareholders of the Panama con¬ 
tributed their congratulations. It was a 
day of studied felicitations. A false report of 
his death on Thursday caused a fall of nine 
francs in canal shares. 
Tiie late Dowager Lady Chesterfield’s hus¬ 
band was so hard up that he was obliged to let 
Chesterfield House, and was unable to finish 
Bretby, his country seat, and his son had to 
sell Chesterfield House; but Lady Chesterfield, 
who had a life interest in the property after 
her son’s death, fluished Bretby, and left 
$5GU,000, besides clearing the estate. A smart 
business woman that! 
At a receut public dinner Lord Fife not 
only condemned entail, but advocated peasant 
proprietorship, and expressed his willingness 
to sell tbeir farm tounyof his tenantry who 
were able to buy and successfully farm them. 
Such a statemeut coming from the owner of 
250,UOU acres is full of significance. Lord Fife 
has always been a generous landlord and liber- 
al-mindfd man. He is oue of the wealthiest 
men in Scotland, and has a large interest in a 
London banking house. 
Leopold von Ranke, the greatest of living 
historians and the creator of the modern his¬ 
torical method, is just 00 years. He is busily 
engaged ou the crowning work of his life, the 
wonderful “ Weltgeschichte,” which has al¬ 
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records of ancient Egypt to the death of 
Charlemagne. A sixth volume is about to 
appear, and the venerable student hopes to 
complete his vast undertaking in three more 
years. 
The Duke of Norfolk, whose rank in blood 
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be one of the brightest and best men in Eng¬ 
land. Fourteen years ago he married Lady 
Flora Hastings, who turned Catholic to be¬ 
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she is popular, though she is never spoken of 
with the siucore affection which is shown to 
her husband. The Duke is a practical philan¬ 
thropist, and is uow building in Norfolk the 
largest Catholic church erected since the Re¬ 
formation. His son, a boy of six, and the 
heir of “all the Howards,” is blind. This mis¬ 
fortune is a sorrow which the first duke of 
Euglaud finds it almost too bard to bear. 
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