Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-12
gin General
Personal.

IHE sultan of Morocco is about to have
his 36l wives photographed. The portraits
will be contained in an album, of which the
sultan alone will have the key.
ARAB1 BEY, who was an almost penniless
felah two or three years ago, has within the
last two months bought a palace in the
fashionable quarter Of Cairo for 100000.
THURLow WEED has been completely
blind for two weeks. His health is fairly
good in other respects, and he attended the
annual dinner of veterans of 1912 in New
York on the fourth.
MATTHEW KENNEDY of Corpus Christi,
Texas, is enclosing pasture containing
100000 acres Of grazing lands. When fin.
ished this will probably be the largest en-
closed pasture in the world.
KING LUDWIG, of Bavaria, has presented
Wagner, the composer, with two superb
swans, the identical birds which, yoked TO
an elegant boat have often drawn his ma
lesty, dressed up as Lohengrin, across the
Lake of ohen-Schwangau.
"GREAT oaks from little acorns grow"
When Mr.. John Hester of Walton, Ga, was
married twenty-one years ago, his uncle pre-
seDted him with sheep and her two lambs.
Now his herd numbers largely over one
thousand, all produced from that one sheep.
President MAGoUN of Iowa College,
Grinnell, which was wrecked by the recent
tornado, on Sunday, June 25 preached a
very sad but powerful baccalaureate SER
mon, taking the disaster for his text. The
sermon, which he had previously carefully,
prepared, was carried away by the terrible
storm.
The oration referred to by Daniel Web
ster in his autobiography, which was de-
livered July 4, 1902, in Fryeburg Me-,
was recently discovered in mass of the
authors private papers which had found its
way into junk shop of Boston. At that
time Mr. Webster was principal of the Frye
burg academy, and was only twenty years
of age.
A MONUMENT is to be erected in New
Orleans to the memory of Margaret Hough-
dry, recently deceased benefactress of that
city. She was the widow of an Irish sailor.
She could neither read nor write, and it is
said never wore kid glove or silk dress
in her life, yet she made an immense fortune
in the baking business, which she herself
expended to the amount of hundreds of
thousands in building and endowing asy-
lums for orphans regardless of faith. She
died Catholic, though all her life she paid
no attention to religious duties.
Ex-SECRETARY EvARTs in talk before the
Yale alumni last week scored some points.
awe have now reached stage in the aft airs of
the country" he said, "when we are able to
take up a longneglected subject-the sub
ect of good government" Intelligent peo.
pie make the great constituency, and Mr..
Evarts declares that the college graduate
cannot shut himself up and complain of
the ignorance caprice and frivolity of his
fall Ia ic ail al
and equipped as the soldier of civil life, that
he be a combatant all through, either in the
ditch or at the head"
IT is related of w. w. Grape, who was on
| Wednesday honored with the degree of LII.
| D. by YALE that he helped to pay his own
way through college by doing clerical work.
His father before him was too poor when a
| boy to buy books, and being in want of a
dictionary prepared manuscript one, walk
| ing from his home in the village of Dart
mouth, Massachusetts, to New Bedford to
| replenish his store of words and definitions
| from the town library. The father finally
became governor, and the son is now the
most prominently mentioned candidate for
the republican nomination in Massachusetts.
A GENTLEMAN who was on the train re-
Gently wrecked in New jersey describes
how General Grant behaved. He says: al
| knew the car was off the track and had not
made up my mind what to do about it,
when General Grant got up, and STOPPING
down in the aisle, grasped the iron-work of
the seat on each side. | said to myself,
'Old man, your head is level, if you are a
general, and | got up and followed his ex-
ample. Hardly had changed my position
when the the car gave lurch to the right,
and then went down what seemed to be an
interminable distance. 1t finally settled
into the water, lying on its left side. The
right side was above water, and General
Grant, poking out the window drew him
self up and climbed out of the car"
CONGRESSMAN BELFoRD of Colorado, has
a very thin voice, almost inaudible across
the house, and a nine-year-od son with an
enterprising western spirit. The other day
Mr.. Belford tried in vain to make the speaker
hear him in order to offer bill. Little Sam
bore the situation as long as he could with
composure, then darting forward to the area
in front of the speakers desk, his figure,
undersiz I'D for his age, but 1.-the as grass
hopper, appeared in full view of the speaker,
and he called amid the din General Kei-
fer General Keifer don't you see my papa's
got paper he wants you to look at ?" The
speaker was amused at the boys reminder,
and promptly "saw the member from
| Colorado, who was permitted to offer his
measure. The little scene amused the house,
however little suited to the dignity of the
| place.