Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-08-06
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
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Andrew Carnegie has an income Of $4,000
a day.
W. b. Howsllz receives &. 90 and upward
for short story.
Bret Harte Is expected TO join his family At
Book Island IN August
Wait Whitman has 50 far recovered as to
resume his literary labors
Lord AIber..arle, the Waterloo veteran, Is
q small, spare man, with bright eyes
Senator Hiseock IS said to read every new
American novel as soon as published
There are $4,000 subscribers TO the nonn-
nneut recently Dedicated TO Gambetta-
The Duke Of Westminster Is the richest
peer In England HB income is $50 per
minute
DR. Oliver Wendell Homes viii be one Of
SIR Lionel SackviIie-W Vests neighbors al
Beverly Farms
John G. Turubull Is one Of Anstrai a s
wealthIest citlzens He Is worth sJ0,OOo,0oo,
all made out Of railway construction
The king Of tire Belgians is immensely rich,
but SPECULATION On the Congo has compelled
him to mortgage some OF bis estates
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge and wife, Sir
Lionel Playfair and Lord and Lady Churchil
are expected al Newport this summer.
Alta dinner z ven to the prince Of Wales
1t vas agrs,7i that $4,000 year was the
maximum a man could make with his brains
The president Of the Imperial Academy at
Pekiu mas undertaken, by command OF the
emperor, 70 translate Hamlet into Chinese.
The youthful emperor OF China rises at 3
O'Clock ia the morning, breakfasts at d, dimes
at noon, sups at O'Clock and goes TO bed
by6
Typewriter Frank E. McGurrin, OF Salt
Lake City, has written 5, 100 words in ninety
minutes. This IS much faster than the av-
erage man talks
The crown prince Of italy, it Is believed,
will certainly marry a daughter of the
Comte de Paris. He will meet the princess
IN England next October
The duke Of Westminster Is at Mount d Or,
France. He does not like French mutton, 50
he has ordered twenty Of his finest sheep to
be- sent to him from one Of his English farms
Mr.. clifford Lanler, brother Of Sidney
Ianier, who is making name for himself IN
literature, has a story entitled The Mate S
Race with tho Banshees IN the current mum
Der Of a southern magazine.
Robert j Burdette has been taking a
ramble through the Rocky Mountains He
says he waited II long time for the mounta~ns
to como to him, and finally made up his mind
that he would have To follow In the footsteps
OF Mahomet
The butter which Senator Palmer, OF
Michigan. uses on bis table Is made from the
milk Of his own high bred Jersey cows and
costs him s. pound, But the senator is a
millionaire many times over and can afford
such luXuries.
Count Tolstoi has obstinately opposed the
marriage Of his son with a daughter Of the
| lately deceased Katkofr The reason for the
opposition to the match is the belief tina,
KatkoGs large fortune had not been accumu
lated by legitimate means.
Herr Won Bulow has lest England in higt
| dudgeon His piano recltals were not appre
ciated in that country He kept up his cour
| age until an English newspaper remarked
that Great Britain wanted but little Herr
! bdiow Then he exclaimed, Mem Gott!'
| and disappeared.
| Mr. and Mrs. Spurgeon are both ILL., Mr.
/ Surgeons physician says that he IS suffer
| ingfrom nervous debility, and must do ne
week that be- can possibly avoid for the mex
three months Mrs Sturgeon Is said to ID
! utterly Frustrated but her illness is no
described as dangerous
Dr. j W Porter, Of Kansas City, claim
! 10 be the orr inator Of the standard time sys
TEN. lie SAYS the subject was first brough
TO his mind in 1873, when he was in the coas
survey, by noting the variation of clocks ant
watches. He finally marked Off a STANDARD
time map and his theory was unanimous,
adopted.
1t was one OF the hobbies of Governo
Young, Of Ohio, whose death occurred re
Gently, to keep what he called "blacl
book, IN which he pasted every mean thin.
that was ever said about him in the news
! papers Nevertheless he was a great frient
/ Of the newspaper correspondents, amonl
whom he had a wide acquaintance.
/ Prince Blucher, descendant of Marsha
| Vorwarts,' recently brought suit for $40
| damages, which he said he sustained by tn
| erection OF stands for spectators in front o
! his house on tine occasion of Kaiser Wilhelm
/ funeral The stands blocked the view from
some windows which the prince intended t,
rent to spectators. The SUIT was decide,
against him