Milford chronicle., 1888-09-07

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What Paragraphista Have Written About
Them-PersonaI Gossip.
Iieut 7. J. Clay, champion rife shot OF
the United States army, is a grandson Of
Henry Clay.
George Francis Train has taken up his
abode at the famous Berkeley Springs Of
| Virginia. He is writing for the press, lect-
uring and making himself generally felt as
usual
Allen Crosby claims to have beaten the re-
/ cord on consecutive days work in shoemak-
/ ing. He has not missed half day from the
bench since May, 1851
Bismarck is said to be rooted in the belief
that his son Herbert will succeed him as
the power behind the Prussian throne. This
thought gives the old gentleman great joy. !
The grave of Richard Wagner at Bayreuth
is in deplorable condition. Weeds cover
the marble monument and neglect has cast
its blighting influence over a spot that should
be sacred.
Robert Louis Stephenson is still cruising
about the South seas He is in better health
than he was. In fact his appetite has inn
proved so much that his yacht was obliged
to stop at the Sandwich Islands.
Simon Cameron, although nearly 90, en-
| Joys fine health. He breakfasts on toast and
tea at a. m, drinks pint of champagne at
II, dimes at 12, and takes mush and milk for
supper. He goes to his room about 8 and
reads till IL
Sir Alexander Cockburn, late chief justice
Of England, used TO work out the first three
books of Euclid every year so as to keep his
logical faculties clear AID prevent him from
falling into a slovenly style Of reasoning.
1t is said that Mr.. John Hoey, now presi-
dent Of the Adams Express company, made
his mark. three years ago by having such a
retentive memory that he could recolleet the
rates to every shipping point. In this way
he was able to mark the packages at won
derfully fast rate, as he never had to refer to
the list Of rates.
Robert Harding, young English Socialist,
when he wants to make a speech on the
streets or public squares, padlocks himself
with a chain to an iron fence or some similar
fixture Then when the police come to take
him in they have to spend long time in
getting him unfastened, and he can make a
pretty long speech before he is carried of.
The Marquis Alexandra R. de Sainte Croix
is a clerk in a Chicago hotel, and he is said to
be much less naughty and arrogant than the
average hotel clerk who can write no titles
before his name. The young marquis is only
20 years Of age, but he has had an adventur-
Gus career, covering both hemispheres and
the two Americas.
S. Govinda Row Sattay is the name Of a
Hindoo Brahmin who is passing the summer
at Saratoga His description of India under
English government is not creditable to the
British. He says that the morals and habits
of the people have become corrupt and that
they indulge in excesses formerly unknown
to them.
It is said that when Jay Gould is very
much absorbed in thinking out some big rail-
road scheme he seems to be very idle, for he
sits tipped back In his chair tearing bits Of
paper into thin strips. He is very particular
to have the strips Of the same width and per-
fectly even, and his whole mind apparently
given up to this diversion, while he is really
not thinking at all of what he is doing with
his hands.
Doubtless with prince for q physician
many sensitive spatients would be hastened
along the road to convalescence through the
influence of the imagination alone. This ad-
mitted, there seems to be no reason why
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Bavaria, who has
passed the final medical examination quail
flying him to practice as a physician, should
not work up an extensive practice for him
self
Professor George Davidson, who recently
examined the great Lick telescope on Mount
Hamilton, Cal, says that when the astrono-
ners in charge make known their discover
les the world will be astonished Some Of
the discoveries are, in fact, so novel and
wonderful that Professor Holden and his
assistants are timid about announcing them
for fear the world will consider them illu-
sions.
The late Henry Soarlett, of New Orleans,
was buried near that city last week, under
rock about 100000 feet in dimensions. He
had amassed a considerable fortune and be-
came possessed with the desire of being
buried under the largest possible tombstone.
He selected huge bowlder for this purpose,
sent to Atlanta for a stone cutter and had a
suitable inscription placed upon the rock,
and then a cave was dug down under it,
where a coffin was placed to await the corpse.
The cave wasthen sealed up tightly.
Speaking Of Bismarck a correspondent
says: "If the prince is not lover of paint
ings-it is said that he has never put his foot
inside the Berlin museum-he is fond Of
music, and when Pauline Lucca used to sing
at the opera house he was one of her most
assiduous listeners. Bismarck knows and
appreciates the great poets, Goethe, Shake
speare and Schiller, and quotes from them
frequently in his discourses. He also likes to
read sentimental and dramatic novels. Weak
in science, he is strong In history and mod
ern languages. He speaks French and Eng
lish fuently, and knows Russian, Italian and
Spanish well.n