New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-15
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HINTS, OPINIONS AND ANECDOTES GA11i-
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Ing made MN ono OF the rich men OF NeW-forh "hero
only few years ago he a struggling lawyer His
operations in the socailed Nickel Plate road and tho
East Tennessee Virginia and Georgia lines pretty
we'll known When he got back from Florida the
other day, ho told c. c. Shayne that no had hshed
there for a whole month and only caught a single fish
Wel' said shayne, In alusion to the fnanciers rail-
road operations, "you landed so many fish In Ohio,
Tennessee and Georgia. that you ought to be content
with fish in Florida"
The young New York artist who succeeded in max
Ing a portrait Of Cardinal Manning that praised In
the Paris Salon, q. D. NJ Peixotto. is making Roadway
at Washington in the same line Of art work He went
there paint portrait Of Chief Justice Waite for
the Ohio Society. The task scarcely finished when
Justice L. q. c. Lamar upon canvas, and will then try
his brushes and skill with ex-Secretary Window OF
Minnesota, for subject.
There IS often wonder expressed how Chauncey NJ.
Depew stand the strain Of attendance night after
night on dinner parties public and private The
task Of eating and drinking, let alone making speeches,
would up ordinary men In a short time His secret
Is TO eat sparingy and to drink only one kind Of vino
IL he starts In with clare h. drinks nothing else If It
night and so with champagne He likes Champagne tho
better but caret likes him apd agrees with him better
than any other.
Writing about Mr.. Depew Is q reminder that when In
his company recently he showed me some of the letters
with which he is being deluged since HIS Presidential
boom came on OF course the signatures wero not ex-
hlbed. One man wrote as follows:
"My rent is due to-day. An inexorable landlord on
Monday morning will put my household effects in tho
street unless can pay him. l have claim upon
your generosity, except that my grandfather heard
yours make his first speech
Mr.. Dcpew says his Interpretation OF this claim IS
that the speech killed the hcarer Another importunac
wrote him I'm this
81 owe $1,000 1t is due next week My credit I.
frstclass in the town. but don't want to strain 1t and
so / write TO you"
That popular actor, W. J. Florence. who sailed for
Europe yesterday the Etrura, to SEQ Toole's new
play, :" The Dom" which he contempates purchasing
employe Of a bank note company In this
city. He was talking about It yesterday he was
licking postage stamp for service letter which he
held in his hand. Said ho: The firm Rawdon
Wright, Hatch & Edison They were bank note
printers and had contracts from tho Government They
printed and gummed the postage stamps. 1t my
duty, as Office boy, to spend half hour twice week
with brush and my hand in spreading tho gum prepar
alton over tho stamps. This amount OF labor on my
part supplied the entire amount required for whole
week Just think Of the difference between that time
and now. presume It would take me three months to
gum by hand weeks supply OF stamps for the Govern
ment. This old experience Of mine was 1876 or AZ
The printers had their Offices the top floor OF what Is
now the Custom House 1t then the Merchants
Exchange
Those who Intimately acquainted with General
Sherman that he retains to this day boys delight
in circus lie has been to see Barnums several
times this Major Bundy of "Thc Mail and
Express who in Washington some years ago
when Forepaugh's circus there tells OF all
night circus experience with the General. Z" knew
his falling and had a fellow weakness that way
myself" said the Major in relating It. So got
a hack and drove him out TO the circus night.
lie divided the attention of the audience between
audi aafrrt lie
childs and his expressions Of delight fully as
spontaneous. When drove back to the city, we
passing Matt. Carpenters house when the Gen
eral sped light in the Senator's window. He in
sisted that we should 60 in and see Carpenter. Yon
may imagine that as Carpenter had Just got a fresh
case of beer from Milwaukee stayed with him
Mrs 5arpentor gave rs the hint on witch we pro
when the General pulled me up and said Now hero
morning tets go in and see him. Hes so sure p to S" be
MP Wen: we went in and the Admiral was up as
got away from him against his protest that We
were going early. mentally protested that It would
Of it's
One Of the steady ollers OF the United sates Senate
is the rotund little Senator from Missouri George O.
Vest. When he was in Washington the other day he
got into conversation with Senator Don Cameron about
newspaper changes in NewYork II should think
this new man, Elliot F. Shepard, would make sue
cess" said Vest
How sol" asked Cameron.
Publishing verse from the Bible every days
] don't quite see that rejoined Cameron. .
awel, reason that newspaper Will sell well
II It publishes the news. Now you can't deny that
the Bible is the biggest kind OF news TO New Workers,
An Interesting to engage in conversation IS
B. F. Pexotto, formerly the representative OF this
Government in Rumania and afterward at Lyors,
He uac horn In Nay Vori aOed n busl-
ness pursuits in Cleveland and after studying law
to San Francisco, where he had built up large
practice and become the father Of family of seven
children, when his humanity touched by the re-
ports OF tho persecution Of the Jews in Rumana-
This was during General Grants first term Presi-
dent, and he telegraphed to General Grant rendering
his services in any way that the Government could
suggest 10 amelorate the condition Of his prosecuted
fellow-reli gonsts The Pacific Coast Senators recon-
mended that he be sent official representative
TO Rumania, and he was so appointed and confirmed
some years an allowance OF 81 900 per annum was
made for clerk hire Mr.. PelxOtto spent years
I'm bucharest, during which time he spent fortune,
although liberal contributions to the cause in which
he was engaged were made by Hebrews both here and
in other parts OF Europe. He succeeded in securing
fair treatment for OF all religious beliefs in Rn
mania Mr. Peixotto is now practising lawyer In
New-York and the editor OF Hebrew publication
Mr. Peixotto says that Immediately after tho
Franco Prusslan he had a talk with Bismarck
I'm which that statesman told him that he intended
to bund up the waste places in Germany by tho
same policy OF protection that prevailed in the United
States. The prosperity that has followed on the
adoption By Germany of this safeguard Mr. Pexotto
regards as almost wholly due to protection. "fcV
can follow the Same idea Europe and trace
everywhere the same results lie continued. when
frsc began study Russian affairs they had low
foreign duty. some 10 or 10 per cent Now It Is
as high as 60 20 per cent. On certain lines OF
German and French goods It Is prohibtve. Tho |
city VI ST. Petersburg Is encirced with factories for
the manufacture Of silks which weo formerly I'm |
ported from Switzerland and France Other fac |
tories I'm other lines have sprung up The same |
thing has been true as regards the French trade In
silks with this country. Under our tariff the manu-.
facturers have found It necessary TO come here and
make the silks for this trade, thereby giving employ
meDt 20 people here. France has prohted by the |
same policy. The English people have been won |