Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-07-19
PERSONAL POINTS


in London hospital
ming is strong and active.
Duke Santonio is only % years old and hes
an income of $4,000 year.
William Henry Bishop, the novelist, has
gone to Europe for the summer.
Prince Henry, the future admiral Of the
German navy, is matchmaker.
Ex-Persian Minister Benjamin has settled
down to his old life of art and letters.
Capt. Carter, of the Yale University crew,
is nearly six feet and weighs 200 pounds
While in Berlin Carl Schurz passes good
part of his time in the Geological garden
The Duke of Marlborough will endeavor
TO awaken an interest in trotting horses in
England.
Representative Dalzell, of Pennsylvania,
is now considered the best dressed man in
the house.
in France. He is now writing up the officer
who arrested him
Judge Elias Smith; who died recently in
Salt Lake City, left two widows, five sons
and seven daughters
The Rev F. ]. Kennedy, young priest Of
PHILADELPHIA is the new vice rector OF the
American college in Rome.
Renshaw, the civil engineer, who is now .
brother-in-law of the Duke of Marlborough,
is a man about feet inches in height
Sir Morell Mackenzie has introduced a
gondola on the Thames German doctors
say that this is distinctly unprofessional
j.. G. Turnbull is the Jay Gould of Aus
tralia His fortune is estimated at 50,OOO,-
900. He is now visiting in Philadelphia.
Herbert Ward, the explorer, of whom
much is now heard i'll connection with Stan
ley, is nephew of Rowland Ward, the nat
uralist.
Ross A. Winans, who hires SO many deer
forests in Scotland, has been sued by the
trustees of Lord Lovatt for $500 for rent
1ue, and condemned to pay.
Herr Tisza, the Austrian prime minister, Is
Hungarian He was born in 1890, and is a
very wealthy land owner, having inherited Q
large estate from his father.
Lord Tennyson is great worker, but he is
also a great smoker. He is reported as say
ing to friend in regard to a certain verse;
Il smoked a dozen cigars over that linz"
Edward George Washington Butler, of ST.
Louis, is the Oldest living graduate of West
Point He was graduated in 1878. He re-
manned in the army until lS47, when he re-
signed
President Cleveland continues to receive
curious presents. Two small, live red foxes
have reached him from DR.. Frost, Of Rolla,
Mo. The animals are named respectively
Cleveland and Thurman
President David J. Hill, of Bucknell uni
yerstv, Pa, will accept the presidency of
the University of Rochester, with leave of
absence to study philosophy and institutions
in Europe for one year, with expenses paid.
James Russell Lowell suffers severely from
govt, but Obstinately refuses to comply with
his physicians instructions. He has joined
tie committee in charge of the commemo-
ration of the bi-centenary of Alexander Pope.
Charles G. Leland is president of gypsy
lore society in England, which includes
among its members Sir Richard Burton,
Paul Batailliard, Archduke Joseph of Hun
gary and other eminent authors and scholars
A correspondent says that Samuel j. Ran
dali has young son known as Little Sam
Randall" who wears glasses and closely re-
sembles his father 1t is added also, that
y Oulh 10 40 iao - oucoois oho a. oLaAl y ID
as tack.
1t is whispered with some excitement among
Ward McAllster's select 400 that Eliot
Zborowski, the best catch of the day, has
been landed by fair dansel who's now at
Newport, R. l. Zborowski has an income of
$4,000 year.
Joaquin Miller is living the existence of a
hermit in the mountains near Oakland, Cal
He is engaged upon poem of some length,
entitled Legends of Christ" embodying
quaint stories picked up by Miller when he
lived in Levant.
Lord Charles Beresford is coming to this
country in October to join an expedition to
southern California. where there are s1id to
be miles OF unexplored country, presumably
as well stocked with gold mines as any other
part of California.
Cornelius Collins of the government bu-
reau of engraving and printing, has been
most faithful and persevering worker. He
has lost only five days in the twenty-four
years during which he has been in the ser
vice of the government
Mr. Hosea II. Lincoln, for forty-two years
principal of the Lyman school, East Boston,
has just entered the ministry of the Unita-
rian church. He is 81 years old, but in
splendid health, and reasonably hopes to
perform many years service in his new field
Paul Grottkau, the Chicago Anarchist, has
returned to the occupation of his earlier
years and has opened photog aph estab-
lishment near the historic Haymarket. With
strange Inconsistency he refuses to take pic
lures for nothing. His is evidently mega
tive philosophy which does not apply to neg
atives.
Mr.. Depew was a member of the Yale
class of 1856 Some of his classmates have
also attained distinction Among them we're
Gen. Wager Swayne, John d. Champlin, Jr.,
and the Rev. E. C. Towne, Of New York:
Cooperation Counsel E p Nettleton, of Bos-
ton, and Col. John Mason Brown, of Ken:
lucky.
The degree of Doctor of Music has been
conferred by Oxford university upon DR..
Walter B. Gilbert, organist OF Trinity
chapel, We Twenty fifth street, New York.
The degree of Doctor of Laws has been con-
ferred upon the Protestant Episcopal bish-
ops of Fredericton, New York and Mime
sofa.
SOME FISH STORIES.