Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-17
PERSONAL PlcKINGS.

The late ear Is to have a monument in the
kresnlin costing $4,000.
The king OF Portugal will make tour of
northern Europe for his health.
The Prince of Wales is again undergoing
treatment to reduce his obesity.
The owner OF The London Times Mr. Wal
ter, is now on the verge OF a peerage
Paul Phillippoteaux, the cycloramic artist,
has just celebrated his thirty-eighth birth
day.
Gen 3oulanger has completely passed out
OF existence as far as the French press is con-
cernetl
Mr. Lorillard, the tobacco man, is hunting
in Florida with a costly yacht and several
$500 dogs.
Senator Cockrell is credited with having
used three gallons of ink in his private cor
respondence last year
Senator Ridlieberger shows no signs of
age To athletic expression, he seems
to be in very good form.
John James Piatt, the Buckeye poet, has
returned to his post at Queenstown, Ireland,
where he is United States consul.
Pasteur's plan OF discriminating rabbits by
inoculating them with chicken cholera has
been tried at Rheims with success.
Kaiser William las contributed 10000
marks to help along the Berlin opera. 1t
was precisely the amount OF last years de-
felt.
Berry, the English hangman, has executed
1l3 persons up to the present time, sixteen of
them having been in Ireland and two in
Scotland
King John, of Abyssinia, hates the sight,
taste and smell of tobacco, and he cuts off
noses and lips of smokers and chewers in his
doul;Iiious.
The most costly private collection of pict-
ures i'll the west Is said to be that of Mr..
Nickerson president of the First National
Bank of Chicago.
Ex-senator David Merrwether, of Ken
tnckv, the appointed successor of Henry
Clay, has recently been visiting Washington.
lie is 50 years old.
Ex Governor Alger, of Michigan, is said to
own over 100 square miles of forest land near
Alpena, bearing more than 800 900 900 feet of
standing pine timber.
President Carnot is credited with saving
that any Frenchman who would declare war
against Germany while Moltke and Bismarck
are alive ought to he shot.
Professor Van Beuschoten of Wesleyan
university, owns one of the rarest gems of
Greek pottery in existence. 1t is an Atbenian
vase, which was made 1000 b. C.
There are four men in the house who part
their hair in the middle, They are Raynor
and Belmont on the Democratic side, and
Phelps and Long on the Republican side.
The German ambassador Mt Rome gets
$3.50 a'year. while the st. Petersburg and
London embassies each pay $500 The
Spanish representative is to have 5000.
Forty-oSe thousand chasubles formed one
portion of the p"?e's jubilee gifts. The Char
trcuSe monks sent go, 900 in cash and Cali
fornia sent staff filed with gold dollars
A California mill onaire named Buckley,
says The Irish Times offered to make Mr..
Parnel his heir, and, on being rebufred,
asked Mr.. Parnell to name somebody else.
Prince Eusene, of Sweden, has been study
ing art in Paris under an incog. Sometimes
he is recognized under this thin disguise,
and seized upon by fashionable reception
gIVers
All efforts to induce Governor Hill to try
the tobogGan slide ut Albany this year have
been vain. lie took one ride down the chute
last season, and he says that he never wants
another,
Gen. Longstreet, the Confederate soldier,
is living at his country scat near Gainesville,
Ga. He is said to be growing gray and old,
but he is active and looks after his farm with
q watchful eye
TlH author of the famous forged letters
which caused SO much trouble between Rus
sin ana Germany is said 20 be Count de Kat
aka4,, va, was formerly Russian minister
at W.. hiuet@n.
One of tho latest of Mr. Whittier's birth
day presents was a balsam pillow. The bal
sam which it contains grew by the grave of
Helen Hunt jackson, in Colorado. and the
pillow was padc by an Indian girl.
Hannibal Hamlin refused to don an over
coat even during the recent severe blizzard
in Maine, when the mercury sunk out Of
sight He so far compromised himself, how
ever. as to put a new pair of woolen nit
tens.
1t is said that George Gould does not spend
over $1,000 a year on clothes. He is very
modest i'll his taste and always selects good,
plain cloth, but is very particular regarding
the fit His younger brother Edwin is more
of n dude
The most characteristic part Of the per-
sonal adornment of senator George, of Mis-
sissippi, is an old fashioned, open faced silver
watch about as big tin dipper. which he
carries in his brceahes pocket, hung upon the
end Of shoe string
Sardou the French dramatist, is building
a magnificent villa at Nice for the special
benefit Of Sara Bernhard The three larg-
est and most magnificent apartments OF the
villa have been designed and furnished and
Set apart for her
Princetons class of 70 was the wealthiest
ever at the institution. Its members are now
considering the project Of presenting the col
lege with an elegant bronze statue of DR.. Nc
Gosh, to he made by H. Gaudens The cost
will be- about 5000.
Jams Whitcomb Riley began his career
as sign painter. and for a time Travelled
through Indiana with a patent medicine
inan. He looks more ike a comic actor than
a poet. and he adds many of the qualities of
the former TO tho~s of the latter
Capt Smith Cook who is a candidate for
doorkeeper of the Kentucky house of repre-
sentativcs, is supposed to be the taliest ma
tive born American. He is seven feet eight
inche~ tall. and only stopped growing seven
years age. when he was - years old
President Cleveland has adopte.. the habit
Oh NiillihHp away from MS desk Tor nail an
hour at about dusk for a sharp walk Of two
miles through the unfrequented portion of
the west end He is said to have already re-
duced his weight about twenty pounds
Millionaire Fay, the eccentric American
Crueslis. who is building himself veritable
castle in the air in Mexico, saYs that when
completed his Seniramis palace will be
more wonderful construction than the
legendary suspended gardens in Babylon
Robert Smalls who was the last Of the col
ored race to retire from membership of the
house of representatives, is pushing his claim
for pension on account of his famous cap
ture of the Confederate steamboat Planter
In Charleston harbor and its delivery to