Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-05-08
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
Louis Koszuth is very Ill at Turin.

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Congressman Mckinney, OF New Hamp
shire, reads Hebrew.
Congressman Knute Nelson, OF Minnesota,
b Nor wegian by birth.
King Humbert, of Italy, drinks nothing
but water at state dinners
W.K. Vanderbilt has spent 500, 600 among
L,ndon bric-a-brac dealers.
Bismarck seldom re,ires before 2 O'Clock in
the morning lie gets up at noon
Abtotsford. Sir Walter SCOTS home, has
been let TO a Liverpool ship broker.
Mr.. Gladstone Is going 10 ''have try at
Col. Ingersol in one of our magazines
John L. Sullivan once drove a street car
IN Boston for the paltry sum OF - per day
Richard Mansfield, the actor, sle:'!,s Eng
lsh. French. German and Italian villa equal
ease.
Minister Bragg has made hit in Mexico.
So far he hs,s deii-d all efforts OF the rdfelied
air to shake ais nerves.
Lord Dufreiin, late governor general OF
Canada. is - lie raised step In the peerage
for his services in India.
Ex-senator Bruce is visiting his mother in
Kansas She is 80 years Old. and she was
formerly a slave in Virginia
DIR. SchIiemann has set out for the east
with the firm determination OF finding the
real tomb OF Alexander the Great.
The Marquis OF Londonderry, lord l7euten-
ant of ireland. has mad conferred upon Lin
the vacant klligAtAood OF the garter.
The sultan has gwen pair OF splendid
Arab horses to tue FreHca Ambassador at
Coustantinople. one oeIng lor us vie.
The Rev. Bartholomew Edwards, rector OF
Ashhill, Norfolk. is the Oldest clergyman in
England, having just completed his 10th
year.
Henry Labouchere says that one of Queen
Victoria's drawing rooms is, speaking
generally very indecent and ugly exhi-
bition.
Ye Wan Yong, We Ia Yung and vi Hun
Yong. the secretaries of the Corean legation
at Washington, have started out on Il tour Of
the country.
joseph Willard, the proprietor of Wizards
hotel. Washington, is worth Sl3,0O0000. he
began life as one OF the porters in the hotel
that he now owns.
William O'Brien, VI. p, worked out the
idea of a novel while in prison, but having
no writing materials was not able TO commit
his thoughts TO pap, =
The Prince of n, olcs, crown prince of
Italy, is, it is rumo.c candidate for the
hand of Princess So HE, daughter of EN-
peror Frederick, of e. many.
Can't. J. B. Coffir. If Massachusetts, ex-
poets to have a jolly line as American con-
sui at St. Helena Ii will have to be Ma
poleon of cheeriulnes { he does.
The new Duke of Rutland, Lord John
Manners, inherits ~ NO acres of land, five
mansions and about 10000 annual income
from his brother, the bachelor duke.
When Judge Gresham is in evening dress
he is considered by his friends the most at
tractive man living. 1t is supposed that he
will wear dress coat at the convention next
summer
Senator Chace, of Rhode Island, is the only
member of the United States senate who al
ways wears "a swallow tailed coat, while At
torney General Garland prides himself on
never having owned one.
Stenographer D. F. Murphy has been the
reporter of the United STAGES senate for
nearly forty years. He has reported Clay,
Webster and Cass, and later Sumner, Sew
ard and other famous men
Austen Chamberlain. eldest son Of the
RIGHT Hon joseph Chamberlain. is to enter
narliomeut He has been studying in Berlin.
and it is said that Prince Bismarck took a
great fancy to HIM and frequently enter
tanned him at dinner.
Cypbert II. Gillette. of Keokuk, Ia, is a
veteran # the late war who is now totally
blind. fol fifteen years he has been uusuc-
cessfully applying for pension Ills claim
has just been allowed, and he will receive
about $4,000 IN arrears.
One of the newspaper men in congress. and
one of the Youngest members of the house as
we'll is Jacob Yost. editor of The Valley
Vircinian. of Stanton. His bovish face is
innocent of IA beard and he looks half a dozen
yenr, vouuft r than ne really is
Alexander Dumas sat down one night not
long 40 and wrote a single act play before
he quit the W rk, which lasted from o'clock
in the evening till 2:30 in the morning He
drank c;,ht GUS of black coffee while he
wrote and converted twenty-nine cigarettes
into ashes.
TO-, Law Va1Iooa .ha o,+bor of ara,
Uurn is said to he djstrgssinclv ohscnt
minded He has heen known when nj hreal;
fast 70 mt Two heayinsr teaspoopfuls of
smear ON n soft boiled er5. and then. almost
beforo the lam Inter had died awoy. to salt
his coffee with Great elaboration.
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