Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-25
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.

M E1FFRL rlakes ss,00o day out of hisi tower.
 SITTING BULL. is said to have had several offers ot marriage from white women.
 MIR. EDISON smokes great deal; the more. work he does the more cigars he consumes.
 Dn. HANSEN, who lately completed an ad- venturous journey across Greenland; Is only twenty-seven years old.
 THE late Judge Terry took part in the first battle of Bull Run, fighting in civilians clothes on the Southern side. He com. manded an independent body of Texan cav; airy later in the war. THE indignant Hadji Hassein Ghooly Khan will be succeeded as Persian Ambassa- Is said to be the fattest man in Persia. His weight is stated to be 347 pounds. EDWARD BRowN, father of Dr. Brown-Se- Quard. the noted physician and physiolo- gist was native of Philadelphia He was named for his father and for his mother, a lady of French extraction, named SeQuard. GENERAL MAHoNE, of Virginia, is the son of 8 tavern-keeper. He walked barefootod to Richmond to secure the Governors aid to enter the Virginia military institute. While there he was twitted with being Q
 ..'poverty pupil"
 SIR ARTHUR HoDasoN, who has recently arrived in this country from Australia, is known at home as the 'King of Queens land." He was knighted in 1888 on account of his valuable services as honorary secre- tary of the Indian and Colonial Exhibitions reception committee.
 A WESTERN newspaper says that MT. Blaines Colorado mines pay him largely. The Little Hope silver mine has paid him over thousand times all that he has in- vested. The Pride of Erin also pays big dividends So that, with his coal lands In Pennsylvania and his gold and silver mines in the West, MT. Blaine is doing well.
 GENERAL Hooker, Congressmap from Mississippi, lost his right arm during the
 war. He was on the Confederate side. Major Powell, chief of the Geological Sur vey, lost his left arm, he being on the who are intimate, buy one pair of kid gloves
 between them, their hands being the same size.
 GENERAL N. P. BANKS has had varied
 career. He was 'bobbin boy" in fac-
 tory, an actor fifty years ago, hsying played l Claude Melpotte ip the "Lady of Lyons" at
 the old National Theater, Boston. Later on
 he was 8 lawyer, and stin later General
 in the army, Governof of the State of Massachusetts, and Speaker of the House in the same State.
 GENERAL ALBERT PIKE, the head Of all the
 Masonic orders and rites in this country, Is
 in his eightieth year. He was born in
 Boston, and was graduated ct Harvard,
 went West in 1881, served in the Mexican
 war, and was Confederate Brigadier in
 charge of the Cherokee Indians. He Is an old newspaper man, but has been practic- ing law in Washington for many years.
 MANY years ago Whitelaw Reid once l went out for stroll in short, tight-ftting l velveteen jacket. As luck would have 1t,
 Sarony spied him and invited him to step in
 and have his photograph taken. MT. Reid
 consented. He never wore the jacket
 again. But the photograph fell into the
 hands ot popular caricaturist, and from l that day to this, whenever Mr. Reid | figures in cartoon, he is made to wear the | old, long discarded jacket.
 LABoUcHERE says there are two Boulan- gers: the ideal, who combines all the quail | ties of Occur de Lion, Bertrand du Guesclin and Launcelot; and the real, 8 middle-aged gentleman who has never distinguished
 himself in any manner whatsoever, who
 mounts painfully on steady roadster, Is
 tolerated in a certain hon-hunting division
 of London society, but is politely though
 studiously ignored by the better and more exclusive portion thereof