The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-03-27
Personalities.

Mrs. William II. Vanderbilt always
dresses in black for church going.
1t is proposed by Italians resident in
New York to buy Garibaldi's old place
on Staten Island and make it into a
GaribaldI Park.
Colonel Chester. the messenger Who
delivered the electoral vote Of Tcunc. -ce
to the President OF the Senate, is MIN, ty-
four years old, and IN vigorous health.
DR.. Schweniger of Munich, is the
author OF the new system or reducing
flesh by not eating and drinking III tie
same time, but 10y letting TWO hours in
tervcne.
Mr. Hamilton Fish spent seventeen thou-
sand dollars year, Mr.. EV5,rts twelve
Thousand dollars, and Air. TTclIuShUyseu
ten thousand. over and 1b,ye their sasary,
while holding the office Of Secretary Of
State.
The Rev J. c. Wilder. Of the class Of 50
in the Vermont University is the oldest
college student perhaps ju the world. n at
the age Of eighty three hc has returned To
finish the course OF study interrupted when
he was member Of The ci@S~ 81 ',2.
Mr.. Oliver s Taylor, formerly in the
employ Of Messrs- CroCkor K brewster,
Boston publishers. celebrated his hun
drcdth birthday week or two ago. hr.
CrockCr, of the above iirIn, is himself
eighty nine years old. Both gentlemen
have their faculties perfectly.
Mt. T.. -. NiilliU. til -Nf'N oII, Iklibtie
Island, an octogcuarian, whose son in law,
Mr. Clarke. has lately been appointed
Pension Commissioner. WIS nearly stone
deaf when, slipping and falling in The
street very recently, ne hit mis- Hca,d, aud
on recovering from the stunning effect ot
the blow had entirely regainrd his hear
ing.
In the album of the widow Of cx-
Senator Evans, OF Maine, is the following
verbatim autograph Of Dayy Crockett !:
f.f
from the west to write his name in her
Album. Her curiosity stall he grattifcd by
Sentiment wishing her helJh and hapines
and safe arrivcl ut her residence with
her family and friends "
George Augustus Sala says: Some
pc, ~" say that Louis Napoleon was not
brave. ~ shat he was one Of the most
phlegmatic ii. hravest of men. He rode
through the Stleets of Paris fully ten
horses lengths ahead of his staff when at
every window there might have been an
assassin. with the same imperturba BILE
countenance and the same expression of
being only half awake that | mad first
noticed. | saw him when, a young man,
in the zenith OF his power, and again after
his downfall, but always there was the
same nambulent-lethargtc eX-
preston"
At Kansas fair two pigs were fed with
view to determine which was the best.
The experiment lasted fifty-seven days.
o. One was POland-Chi and weighed sc
pounds, at the beginning, and at the end
weighed I7G pounds having made n gain
. of 50 pounds, the food being three pounds
. to each one pound gained. The other was
a Berkshire, and weighed at the beginning
81 IA pounds and at the end 164 pounds
gaining 81 "a pounds and consuming 3. IL
pounds of food to each pound gained. The
Berkshire gained three-quarters OF a pound
more than the Poland-China, but required
a trifle more food for each pound gained
Such experiments should be made OF
every farm, as they would soon enable
farmers to grow the largest proportion oi
pork at the smallest possible cost.