are offering special facilities for all who would like an opportunity of visiting the Manila Carnival next month and escaping from the cold of Shanghai to a warmer climate, The str. Mongolia will make an extra call at Shanghai and sail for Manila direct on or about January 31, arriving there about February 5. The cost of the round trip will be no more than 99 (Mex.) and passengers will be able to stay on board the steamer to} di ing the three or four days spent at Manila.
Mz. Walter Theodore Watts-Dun-ton, the intimate friend, executor, and residuary legates of Mr. Algernon ©. Swinburne, left £22,994, the net personalty being £10,300. The works Mr. Swit the estate, and Messrs.
Botheby Ro: are to sell all the Swinburne MSS. which the executors think ought 20 be publicly sold, the autograph copies of presentation books given to Mr. Swinburne and himself, and the quarto edition of old dramatists.
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