Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-11-05
pERoONAl GOSSIP.

Carnegie will spend s750.oo On his pubic
library a, ftrtsburz
Ciaaaiie~y ~ D~p~~ carries life Insurance.
amounting To SlD,0D
Ex-Qne~n lsaheiIa Of Spain recently won
t0DG francs on q bore race
Historian Bancroft says that he feels a.
we'll he lid sixty years ago
Edison Is theosophist and has grown
asshy AMI hi, hair Is whitening
The Hon Hannibal Hamlin Las done .
great hot u partridge shooting this year
Jas Gs,,la noids so, 40. 600 of the $4,000,
90 Il capital stock Of the Western Union.
JAM Rliss-sl Lowell says that he Is going
70 p.-r,i the remainder Of ms life in America
Herman Scburig. the German sculptor.
ia, ,,ar.i. 70 the United States to make bust
Of E.iI-.n
Fris-irirn spieihagen, the most popular
German novelist recently eeebraoi his ruth
birthday
We. President Morton will receive a rental
Of 5000 a year for his new apartment hotiss
in " ashington
tbrar : Strauss eI-mnister TO Turkey,
makes a hobby Of collecting 'and studying
books ON American history
IL eost Andrew Carnegie about 5000. 70
allow his men 10 attend Superintendent Jones
funeral by shutting down one day
Edwin Everett Hale says that when ne was
in ,-ullege he and his chum took the first
daguerreotype ever made IN Boston
NJ Sanret reached the Paris exposition
after a seven days Journey from Brussels In
a pbaeton drawn by pair OF dogs
Brayton Ives, of Wall sto'et, has perhaps
1t 9 finest ami most valuable collection OF old
manuscripts. ,iissals and rare hooks in the
Unite,i State
Robert Burdette, the professional huinor-
isl, has been acting pastor OF the Lower
Merton Baptist church. Philadelphia. during
the last summer
Or. Tamage est inates the net loss to his
church from the recent fire at about So, 900
The total insurance on the building and con
tents was xl29.4O
Mr.. Gladstone has found rival in Cardinal
Manning who since the London dock strike,
has been called by his admirers The grand
est Old man Of our times
Edwin Booth is an enthusiastic whist
player lie plays scientifically, and nothing
pleas, hifn more than To have good rubber
Win lliiN 'isiti -poi pay
rhe late Wiikie Collins never passed IA day
without taxing up one OF the Waverly nov
els lie had very warm admiration for the
genius OF the elder Dumas and Of Balzac. but
-speciaily the former
Marshal Won Moltke is one Of the most
venerable veterans living in a double sense.
IT, began hi> practical military studies when
al y of II wears. and on the 26th of Novenr
.r he entered upon the 9cth year of his age.
Gel Gre;ifell. the hero OF the last EgyP
ian campaign, was given a glorious recep
iui AT the hands of his fellow townsmen of
swansea in Wales, recently, on his return
O his native city. The freedom of the city
vas presented 10 him with imposing ceremo
lies
Gen Bouanger has been compelled to con
Tue his diet to fruit and cereals He is al
owed e. drink milk but is vigorously denied
vine His complexion is very pale and he
kpks far from we'll He is now obliged to
pay more attention to his own constitution
than to that Of France
Professor Todd, Of Amherst, who has
charge of the expedition to St. Paul de Loan
da on the west coast of Africa, to view the
eclp>e, has planned system Of pneumatic
valves. TO he operated by electricity, by
which the Photographic apparatus may be
operated automatically during the period Of
total eclipse.
Sir Frederick Young, who is over 20 years
of age. has returned to London after re-
narkabe journey During his sojourn in
South Africa he has visited the Kaflirs in
their ktaas, passed fortnight in the bush
without entering a house, interviewed Mr..
Paul Kruger, completely traversed the
Transvaai and Travelled altogether just 49,
mo miles