Men You Hear Of

Jesse Gram is in the City of Mexico, where he his mining interests. Jean Joecpb Benjamin Constant, the Frene.h painter, ia now on his first visit ! to this country. M. Coquelin looks so iniieh like tho Jeader of tho Boston theatre orchestra that he was mistaken tor hiin a nuiuber of times. Prince Bismarck has asked Emperor William to release hiin of a great portion of his dudes and to appoint in his stead his son, Count Herbert. üovernor Blake, of Newfoundland, has been a)pointed governor general of Queensland, uith a salary of $5,000 and enormouïs emoluments. A brother of Mr. Rider Haggard, Capt. A. C. P. Ilaggard, now servirig in Meerut, has written a book, said to be in the 6ame style as his brother's works. Of the live leading cricketers among the gentlemen of Kngland W. O. Grace, W. W. Eead, V. H. Patterson, T. C. O'Brien and J. Eccles are all teetotalers. "Gen. Harrison's pastor, the Rev. Dr. Haines," says The Presbyterian Observer, of Baltimore, "is not'only anable preacher and efficiënt pastor, but a Presbyterian bred in the bom." The crown prince of Germany, now 6J years old, i.s drilled every day f'or half an hour by a sergeant major of the First regiment of the guarda. He is an extremely liandsouie little fellow. The Italiana were not pleased with the manners of Emperor William of Germany. They complain that he has a hrusque way of eutting his sentences short, and that ho mounts his horse clumsily. At Vienna the Germán emperor noticed at court a lady with extraordinarily long and beauiiful hair, and asked her, "From whence have you it?" "It is the gift of God, your majesty," she replied. The Prince of Wales is certainly losing his ekill as a marksman. At the imperial hunt in Austria he shot at and naissed four stags, much to his own chagrín and the disgust of Francis Joseph, who accompanied him. Gerald Massey, the British author, who is coming to the United States to lecture, is CO years of age. He, is a poet, a philosopher and a Spiritualist, and it will be in the hall of the latter sect that he wiU be tirst Iieard in Boston. Bishop Vladimir, of the Greek church in America, has the largest diocese in the world. It includes al] of North America to Buenos Arrea in South America, The bishop Iivcs ín Sitka, but spends a good deal of bis time in San Francisco. Lord Shrewsbury, the English peer who has made a fortune in London by supplying Ukj public with hansom cabs, is about to push his venture in Paris. He wil] place 800 cabs, drawn by English horses, in the French capitaL Bronson Iloward, the American playwright. ia a man of about 46 years of age. He is of average height, of sturdy build, and had light colored hair and mustacho until the gray crept in and crowded out the gold. He wears eye glasses and dresses handsomely, and looks more like a prosperous broker than a dramatic author. Cari Strokleman, of Columbus, Ind., who has been engaged in trading pursuits in Central África, brought home with him a young African prince. His royal ebony higlmess, who is only 9 years old, ia the son of the king of the Lonagon country. Af ter he has learned the language and customa of this country ho will return to his tropical home. The report that the czar of Russia had becomo addicted to tho cigarette habit was thought by ruany people to bo the outcoine of Nihilistic niisrepresentation. But a silvor cigarette case which the czar carried in his pocket at the time of tho recent railroad accident, in which he nearly lost lus life, was crushed flat. It is evident, therefore, that the autocrat of all the Russias is a cigaretto üend. The shah of Persia has discovered a new lako in his dominions, and has written an article about it which he calis "The New Lako Between Kom and Teheran." Ho sent his production to a newspapcr edite in Teheran, who, of course, published it, but the existence of the lake is still doubted by Peraian geographers. They aro Inclined tu rxclaim, "Oh, shah!" 'ia the privacy of their studios. Col. Ilenry S. Olcott, tho founder of the Theosophical society, who has been in England l'or some months, has returned to India. Early in January next he will yisit Japan upon theosophical business, and will come to the United States by way of California. Theosophists ai-e preparing to have him nsit the branclies in tho United States, and to giro lectures upon theosophy in the large cities.