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J. D. Wood of Beaver Canyon, Idaho, has flocks aggregating 78,000 sheep. Mrs. Francés Hodgson Burnett makes a larger income than any other woman writer in the world. Burnham, the scout who shot the chief instigator of the Matabele war, is home in Pasadena, Cal. Daniel Campbell and his wife, of Walton county, Florida, are sai cl to be respectively 117 and 112 years old. Mr. and Mrs. William Buck of Emporia, Kan., celebrated the golden anniversary of their wedding recently. Sam Jones has announced that his next revival meeting in Atlanta will take place in the tabernacle in Maren, 1897. The king of, Greece receives the smallest income of any European sovereign, his salary only amounting to ?200,000. Rudyard Kipling's new book of ballads will be called "The Seven Seas." A number of the poems have never been published. Mary Marks, colored, who resides in Brenham, Tex., was born in the West Indies in 1776, and is therefore 120 years old. Albert E. Faust, of Havre de Grace, Md., has been appointed a professor in the Wesleyan university at Middletown, Conn. Lady Londonderry has a vast knowledge of agricultural matters and ages an estáte better than many professional farmers. Rev. J. C. Plumb has recently become pastor of the Congregational , church in Joplin, Mo., for the third time siuce its organization. Robert Nobel, who reeently died in Swedcn, aiscovered the rich deposits oí p i in the Caucasus in a chance visit to Baker in 1873. Queen Victoria purchases almost every uew book of note published, ancl her expenditure on literature oL all aorts is over $6,000 per annum. Samuel Camochan celebrated his eigtot.y-second birthday at Rome, Ga., Thursday. He knew Aaron Burr. He has iived in the south since 1838.