Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-08-27
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
Bouccault says that man Of today do N
know how to walk.

Boucicault says that men Of today do ~
know how to walk
John Ruskin is travelling in France IN ths
best OF hsalsh and spiritA
Edwin Booth does not like Newport, and
viii sell his cottage there
Prince Bismarck has been presented with .
valuable yacht by Stuttgart admirerA
DR.. William A. Hammond asserts that the
brain is not an organ absolutely essential TO
life.
Among the poverty stricken kings Of this
world Milan, of Servia, il said to wear the
crown
Bishop vinton's place as manager OF Chau-
tauqua is being taken this year by his son
George.
The earl of Buckinghamshire was tl5
month farm Iaborer in this country some
seven months ago.
English gossips still claim that Joseph
Chamberlain and Miss Endicott are to be
married in the fall
Stagg, Yale's great pitcher, is at the head
Of the baseball nine at Chautauqua- Inc
nine is still invincible.
Sitting Bull, the renegade Sioux, says he
old rascal good many years
Sir Richard Owen, the great comparative
anatomist, has entered his eighty-hfth year
in capital form, mental and physical
yictorien Sardou says that Alphonse
Daudet's most relentless enemy Is not toe
French academy, but the French grammar.
They say Sam Jones is q capital illustration
n, bis own remark that .when God wants
good man he makes him as ugly as mud
fence
Sir John E. Millais is popular with his
models. He pays them well, treats them
kindly, and never sends one away without
good dinner.
IL is said that Gen Won Moltke kisses all
the babies he meets In the course Of his morn
ing walks, and that he is much pleased when
a fot,d mother waylays him with malice pre-
pense.
John Detwiler, Of Mansfield, O., claims to
be the oldest active travelling salesman west
Of the Alleghanies. He has been on the ROAD
constantly for thirty-fve years.
James Payn at nearly 60 years OF age, is
square headed, broad browed and specialized,
looking like a prosperous doctor rather than
an author. He has eleven daughters.
Emperor William II assures Frau Wagner
that he considers it his sacred duty to protect
the Wagneran performance at Beyreuth. 1t
will be remembered that William has an
affection OF the ears
Lieut. A. G. c. Quay, son of the senator
from Pennsylvania, who was graduated
lieutenant from West Point last June, has
been assigned to service in the Eighth cav
airy, and will be given chance to win his
spurs in Dakota
The deaths Of EmperUrs William and Fred
erick has cost the princes of Thurn and Taxis
the enormous sum Of 100000, because, as
feudal lords of the Prusslan domain Of kro-
toszyn, they have to pay $3.50 600 on the de-
cease of every king of Prussia.
Gen c. B. Fisk, the Prohibition candidate
for the presidency, is an epicure in sea food
dishes and nothing tickles his palate SO much
as a delicately prepared fish dinner. From
having made his fortune in the fish and
oyster trade he is sometimes known as Clam
Bake" Fisk.
King Ja-Ja, of Opobo, the deposed West
African sovereign whom England exiled to
the West Indies, is being somewhat feted at
St. Vincent He is invited to lawn tennis
parties and various social functions, where
he struts about in an admirals uniform and
kid gloves bearing himself with kingly dig
nifty.
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Ine 'ai M D g.. a. 900 norins .nd
'o ~, -, ,,r..o,
ralierv for it has also been built and en-
loved nv the baron. The total cost of the
scientific Gift will ams:.r. t, vsosc than
es 600
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