Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-08-23
Personal.

Professor Bell is preparing photography
of electricity.
Miss Ellen Terry will have $500 week
during her tour of the United States
Ex-Gov. Dingley has purchased Fisher
mans and Damariscove Islands, and will con
vert them into summer resorts.
| Charles Dudley Warner is busily preparing
series of lectures on literature, to be de.
| livered before the senior class of Princeton
College.
Senator Alliston, of Iowa, is almost
| crushed with grief at the tragic death of his
| wife, and of course has abandoned all active
| political work, but it is believed that his
| friends will the more earnestly work for
| his reelection.
| The Bath Times says Rev. c. b. Atwood
pastor of Corlis Free Baptist church in Bath,
| suffered severe surgical operation at the
Maine State Hospital in Portland few days
ago. As soon as possible he will be removed
| to Brunswick.
Senor Lumex, acting charge d'affairs of
Brazil to the United States, received letters
| of recall Saturday. He was so much dis
| concerted by the news that he took refuge in
drink and spent the night in the station. house
| He says now that he was excited but not drunk
Prof A. +. Chase, so long connected with
| the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kents Hill,
has accepted position as principal of the
| High School at Mibury, Mass. Prof Chase
| has been one of the best of Maine educators,
| and his removal from the State will be loss
to its school interests.
Francis Murphy, in his temperance work
| in Great Britain has received over five mil.
lion pledges, and has attracted the very throne
| itself, Queen Victoria having taken deep
interest in the work. He has been the guest
Of Lady Gladstone. At one meeting in Edin-
burgb ffty-four Of the most prominent clergy
men of England and Scotland were present.
The young Queen Of Spain has been living
| very simply at Frazenhead with her two little
girls and her mother and sisters. Every
morning, in plain gray dress and black
straw hat, she went to drink the water, and
like other visitors, she usually stopped at
one Of the confectioner's stalls that abound
near the springs to buy cakes and rolls for
| breakfast.
Sergeant Lewis Lehman il said to be .stbe
| nations oldest soldier He enlisted in the
United States army fifty nine years ago, in
| 1924, and has passed most of his time at Fort
Niagara, New York, where he still lives. At
| the age of ninety. While Sergeant Lehman
probably is the oldest man in the service.
| living men entered it before 1924, a notable
| case in point being that of General Harvey
| who became.a lieutenant in 1917.
This is a story about the Vanderbilt fami-
ly: They were sitting on hotel piazza at
Saratoga when somewhat over dressed lady
| approached and claimed his acquaintance.
The commodore rose and talked affably with
her, while his wife and daughter shifted the
air with scorn, Father" said the young lady.
as the commodore resumed his seat, didn't
you remember that vulgar Mrs. B. as the
woman who used to sell poultry to US at
home! Certainly" responded the old gen.
tleman promptly. land / remember your
mother when she used to sell root beer at
three cents glass over in Jersey when I
went up there from Staten Island peddling
oysters in my boat"