The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-08-09
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Newspaper Note and Comment concern
ing Men More or Less Famous.

Newspaper Note and Comment concern
ing Men More Less Famous.
William Weghtman, who is worth
$50, 600, 600, started life as a drug clerk.
Cyrus w. Field got his first start as
clerk in a commission house at So week.
Gen. Spinola is said to look the Oldest
man in the house of representatives.
Addison Cammack began life as mes
senger boy in New Orleans shipping
firms office.
Frank Gushing has returned to the
Zuni land to get at some more of the Sc
crets of those ancient New Mexicans.
DIR. Aveling, the Socialist who lately
visited this country, has dramatized Haw-
thore's Scarlet Letter"
Roswell p. Flower began his money
making operations as day laborer in a
brickyard at High Falls, n. Y.
Emperor William III is the first Russian
speaking king of Prussia Prince Bis
mark speaks Russian tiuently.
Sidney Dillon earned his first money
by carrying water to the laborers on tho
railroad between Albany and Schenec-
tady.
Before he discovered the cholera mi
crobe, Robert Koch was known simply
as DIR. Koch. Now he is Herr Geheimer
Medicinal Rath Professor Doctor Robert
Koch.
The youthful emperor of China rises at
8 O'Clock in the morning, breakfasts at
@, dimes at noon, sups at 0 o'clock aud
goes to bed by Q.
Ex-Governor Berry, of New Hamp-
shire, is ''going on" 93 years of age and
still s!iips about from house to house Wis
iting among his friends.
MIR. Burne Jones' studio presents a
striking contrast TO those of other emin-
ent English painters. 1t is simply work
room, with bare floor and whitewashed
walls. ,
The richest peer in England is the duke
of Westminster, who owns vast estates
in Cheshire and in Wales. His income
is said TO equal thirty shillings minute.
James Payn, at nearly GO years of age.
is square headed, broad browed and
specialized, looking like prosperous doc-l
tor rather than an author. He has eleven
daughters.
A prominent addition to the legal pro-
fession has just been made at Cleveland,
o., by Messrs. Harry A. Garfield and
James II. Garfield. They have formed
partnership under the name of Garfield
g. Garfield.
Bishop Perry, of Iowa, has received
the degree of ID. ID. from the University
of Oxford, England. The only other
living American who has received like
distinction is Rev. Phillips Brooks, of
Boston.
1t is said that ex-Secretary Robson, off
the navy, is financially exhausted, andl
has bravely started in life again by
swinging his shingle out as a lawyer.
He is over 60 years old, is blessed with
good health and expects to prosper.
Alfonso Celso, of Rio de Janeiro, has
offered large monthly subsidy to the
theatre Of the capital which shall pro-
duce national dramas, and premium Of
$4,000 to the Brazilian author who shall
produce the best national drama.
The car of Russia is great fisher
man, and he has just bought in Finlandl
a tract of land with river swarmingI
with salmon. His imperial wife is alsoI
fly caster, and can manage a wicked
fish with ease and grace.
Lord Albemarle, the Waterloo veteran,
is small, spare man with bright eyes.
! He wears black velvet skull cap. He
is now 80 years old, and is the sole sur
vivor of the eighty-four officers who sat
down to the duke of Wellington's last
Waterloo dinner. He gives a reception
every year on the anniversary of that
"world's earthquake"
DR.. Allansan, of London, is distinguish
ing himself by raising fund to establish
vegetarian hospital in that city. An
imal food in no form will be allowed in
this hospital. Something of the earnest
ness of the English vegetarians is shown
in the fact that several thousand dollars
have been promptly subscribed toward
making the project a success.
Gen. Lew Wallace, the author of "Ben
Hr," is passionately fond of baseball,
and has never been known to miss a
game if he could possibly be present. II
is said that at his home, Charlottesville,
Ind, he is the principal patron of an am
ateur club which ranks as one of the best
IN the State league.
Mr.. August Manns, the famous musicaI
conductor of London, is gray featured
kindly looking man, of middle height
with a broad forehead, long. wavy hah
touched with white, and brusheC
smoothly back, musrache and imperial
and large, bright eyes covered with golt
trimmed glasses. He is SO years old.
In 1910 Henry Mogel, father of County
Treasurer Mogel, of Reading, Pa, caught
turtle on his farm and cut into its bach
the initials "H. NJ, 1870" 1t was moi
seen again until few days ago, when
the county treasurer discovered it alive
and well not more than forty feet from
where his father had found it seventy.
eight years before.
DR.. Sivartha, of Chicago, has just left
that city for Palestine, via England. Hi
idea is to rebuild Jerusalem, and he ex.
poets to take out large number Of peo
pie from Chicago and other American
cities as well as from England. DIR.
Sivartha has worked out elaborate PLAN
for restoring temples, gates, walls and
public buildings, according to descriptions
given in the Bible.