Personals

Richard Croker will rotura to thl Country in December. R. D. Jefferson lias completed th r ldlng a bicycle a dstance o 6,574 miles in 150 days, Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford has adde 600 merobers to the suffragist clubs since her arrival in Idaho. -'j luurmng Mrs. John Burns, wife of the great labor leader, reads for tour hours before breakfast. Gov. Budd, of California, says he thinka the fraudulent coyote scalp claims will aggregate ?50,000. The sultan of Turkey of late has been given quite a number of nicknames The last to come to the surface is that of Hamid the Hangman." Dr. Livingstone used to teil how while traveling in África, he was so hard set for food that he made a meal of two mice and a light, blue-colored mole. The queen of the Netherlands is not as strong as might be, and it has been deculed to take her to Italy, and perhaps, to Egypt, for a good part of the winter. [ Czar Nicholas has become a patrón of literature. He has commissioned M. Istomine to make a collection of the popular songs and patriotic ballads of his empire. Mr. George Faudel-Phillips, the new lord mayor-elect of London, is the fourth Jew to hold that office. His ituuer, air .Benjamin Phillips who was lord mayor in 1866, was the second. Sir Henry Irving is one of the best wordsmen in England. He has practiced scientific swordsmanship for many years. One of h'is fenoing masters -was Prof. McLaren, now of Olympla. The oldest living gradúate of Harvard is Dr. William Lambert Russell of Barre, Mass., who was in the class of '26. He is also senior alumnus of the medical school, being in the class of '31. The Belgian government has just conferred the civic cross of the flrstclass upon a man of the name of Achules Vandercamp, in recognition oL his having saved the life of King Leopold. Emile Zola spends money with a lavish hand. His house at Milan cost 1,00'0,000 francs, and the objects of art which it contains are worth 3,000,000 more. One table in his drawing-room cost $2,000.