Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-02-27
Persons and Things.

Persons and Things.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH will in
March become editor of The Atlantic
Monthly.
1t is said that when Senator Sharon
made his appearance recently in Wash
ingtOn the door keepers of the Senate
did not know him.
ANN HAsKINs, an old servant of the
Astor family, in New York, commit
ted suicide by leaping from the second
story of st. Joseph's Home for the
Aged.
DENNIS S. MURPHY, senate reporter
for thirty years, says that Roscoe
COnkling is the most eloquent orator
whom he has reported since the days
of Daniel Webster.
ARTHUR O'CONNER, home-ruler,
pronounces an atrocious calumny the
statement that the Irish members Of
parliament receive pay from the funds
of the Land League.
The new Senator German, Of Mary
land, was once a page in the legislative
house where he now sits as senator.
He is portly young man with clev-
er face of the Celtic type.
SECRETARY SHERMAN is mentioned
as being kind to poor and struggling
people, having once been poor him.
self; and though he is a childlesS man,
he is very found of, and very kind to,
little. children.
COLONEL JOHN COFER, an old and
wealthy citizen of TuScola, ILL.,, died
in Texas, where he was visiting his
daughter. He had been a member Of
the legislature in Tennessee, Ken
lucky, and Illinois.
THE sundry civil appropriation bill,
as adopted by the committee, sets
aside $95O,00O for the support Of
national soldiers homes, and provides
for the appointment of General McClel-
Ian as one of the managers.
AN autograph of HAWTHORNE sold
in Baltimore the other day for 1915.
One of Webster's brought $1.50; one
of Henry Clay's, ST. .05; one Of Jefferson
Davis the same; and $1.20 was paid
for one of George Bancreft's.
SENAToR-ELEcT-M Of Vir-
ginia, is described as follows: ::
Weight, ninty-eight pounds; height,
five feet one inch, dark eyes and pierre
ing beard, iron-gray, shaggy, and
unkempt voice clear and distinct
JOHN A. CCTHBERT, of Mobile, is
the oldest living ex-congressman. He
was born at Savannah, is 90 years of
age, is graduate of Princeton, served
in the late war with Great Britain,
and was in congress more than sixty
years ago.
FERDINAND SEITz has been in the
Ohio peniUentiary for thirty three
years, for the murder of John Addam.
E. B. Stout, of Cinninnati, one of the
jurors who convicted him, has gone to
Columbus with petition for his
pardon.
SAMUEL A. McCOsKRY, formerly
bishop of Michigan, and the hero of
huge scandal, is living with his wife
in Dresden, Germany, where they are
supported by an annuity of $4,000
left Mrs. McCoskry by Col. Berrian,
who died some years since.
PRINCE BISMARCK has taken his son,
Count Herbert Bismarck, to be his
private secretary. The young man
looks exceedingly like his father, and
is said to be uncommonly gifted, giving
just hopes of future greatness. Posi-
bly, he will continue the princes iron
rule.
Mrs. LANGTRY is said to have re-
solved to undertake dramatic study.
It appears there was foundation for the
story of her intention to go on the
stage, but she resolved not to make her
debut until convinced she could offer
some other attraction besides mere
personal beauty.
THE richest man in the United
States Senate is said to be Mr.. Fair,
of Nevada. Of the others, Mr.. Hale, as
the inheritor of Mr.. Chambers for
tune, is one of the wealthiest. Messrs.
Miller, of California, Malone of Vir-
ginia, and Sawyer of Wisconsin, are
more than millionaires There are
many other rich men in that body.
COUNT Won MOLTKE is man of
nerve still, in spite of his venerable
years. When the building of the gen
eral staff in Berlin wherein he lives.
was burning the other evening, he
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attended to the removal of official
papers, and then went placidly to look
at the confagration.
SENAToR-ELEcT GEORGE, of Missis-
sippi, was born in Georgia, but has
lived since he was 10 years old in the
state which has sent him to the Sem
ate. His life has been full of hard
work. In his boyhood his widowed
mother and his sisters were dependent
upon him, and he had little time to
spend in study. He began to study
law as soon as he reached his majority.
He is SO years old, an athletic man
with blond hair and whiskers, and
firm jaws.
SENATOR EATON, of Connecticut,
welcomes his successor with all the
grace of chevalier. When Joe
Hawley's credentials were read in the
Senate, Eaton remarked to friend:
Sc Politics, like war, make changes. In
war it mitigates capture to fall into
the hands of an honorable, chivalrous
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