The Columbus journal., 1885-09-16
PERSONAL AND IMPERSoNAL.

-Fivc hundred policemen in citizens
clothes are employed in guarding the
public offices of London against dvna-
ua:terS.
| Mrs. Richard Barton. living near
New Erunsw OK. n. j.. who has twice
given birth 10 twins. is now the proud
mother Of triplets.
Governor Ireland. of Texas. vas
! arrested the other day for keeping his
carriage standing OH the street cross.
ing and was fined ten dollars and
i costs.
The late Colonel Gilman NJ. Pal.
mer. OF Clinton. n. T.. has left by will
to the First National Bank of Clinton.
''fOr helping him in time of need" ;" the
sum of four Thousand dollars.
Frederic &. VOllmer. of So 1es.
walk. Conn. is in his A fun-
dred and second year. He Nm SOL
der OF BOnaparte and fou .,ht at Aus
terlitz and Jena. Vollmer does not
drink. but has smoked since tho year
1898.
Christian Ranch was employed ten
years upon the brOIze equestrian
statue of Frederick the Great. which
was erected in the Inter den Linden.
Berlin. in 1851. The statue is seven
teen feet high and stands upon pedes-
tai twenty-five feet high.
The funeral of Victor Hugo was
the most popular colossal fete that
Paris has ever seen. There was no
sadness. no Solemn ty. but. on the con-
trary. pagan sayety. the fcstivity Ofa
triumph. 1t was the manifestation of
= purely human wOrsh;p.-Lettert from
Paris.
Russell Sage is reported to have
lost fully eight million dollars in spec
ulation last year. He is still very
wealthy, but is growing more cautious
and has not the dash of his younger
years. He takes no chances now. pre-
ferring to invest in assured interests.
and has ceased to be power in Wall
street.
Out of i've hundred and nine men,
bers of the House of Lords. not less
than four hundred and forty are land
lords in the fullest sense Of the term;
that is. they derive the whole or the
greater part of their revenues from
land. Fifteen million acres of land,
with an aggregate rent roll of fifteen
million pounds. represent their prop
erty and income VIII le another seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. in
the shape Of pensions. annuities and
salaries. also falls annually to the lot
of this priv legged class.
Colonel Brice. the Ohio millionaire,
has made nearly six million dollars
within five Years. He began in small
railroad speculatiOnS. made money.
And ia led: tried again. and eliminated
with the Nickel Plate enterprise Mr..
Br.ce now lives in New Yo.k He has
residence on Murray Hill. for which
he pa d 1910. .OD. 1t is filled with fur
niture. bric-a-bric an,i pictures which
have cost IL fortune. He has very
fine library. fond OF tersture. and
Is Il man OF cons ,lera!le culture. He
has strong m nd sr.at speculative
ability, and never loses his head.
Lawson Lawrence. colOrcd. of Eu-
esula. Ala, is one hundred and three
:ars old. His present wife is fifty
ears old. he having married her when
she was gal" ~ he expressed it.
She is his ninth wife. and. in reply to
the question rs to how many children
he had. he said he had been accused of |
having one hundred and seventeen.
and it was not for him to
dispute it. Last year he cultivated
twenty acres of land and raised an |
abundance of peas. corn and potatoes.
This year he is cultivating cotton. He
lives within quarter of a mile of |
White Pond. Barbour County. where |
he has been for the last eleven years. |
He labors during the week and
breaches Sunday. being pastor of
Mount Zion Methodist Church for eight |
years.