Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-23
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

PERSONAL GOSSIP.
Gear Wilde, % il Is reported. wears 6na-
nei shirt esrbroidered with douerx
baldwin, the baIiocuise. has made $4,000
BY his parachute descents IN England
The Duke Of Fife Is 90 II the incorporar
tors Of the British South African company
The venerable Professor Sir Richard Owen
has entered his sdth year in excellent health
DR.. Brown-Sequard ID not, a Is supposed,
an out and out Frenchman. but Is the son Of
. PhilAdeiphian.
Owen K Studebacker. the wtn known
brewer Of San Francisco. wants to be COVER
nor Of California
Mr. D. e. French, the sculptor. has com
pletsd his model for tho Starr-King monu-
ment ~ San Francisco.
A io-year-oh boy, Professor Franken-
stein, wieIds the baton at the concerts Of the
West Side park In Chicago.
Ferdinand Guxman the most famous ban
dit IN Spain, Is a dwarf who at one time
kept small store in Granada
Hon Samuel s Cox is said 70 be the only
living man in public life vino voted for the
admission Of Oregon a state Feb. IA, 1889
Thomas A Ellison rarely sleeps more than
four hours a day. He says that when be
sleeps eight hours be feels badly when he
wakes up.
Senator J P. Jones, Of Nevada, and d, o.
Mills, of New York, own gold mines in Alas
ka which are said to yield net profit Of
81, 500 day.
The leading tenor of today. Tamagno, is
about 40 years Of age. and originally assisted
F..t ia. tha tfaa fnfrs al min
waters in Turin
Ronald Mcdonald. son Of the distinguished
English writer, George Mcdonald. has been
appointed head master Of kavenscroft school,
at Asileville, N C.
Gen. Gordon's cook has turned up alive at
Assorean, having cone into the English
lines from the Mahdi's camp He has bios
solned into a doctor.
The Rev Dr. Edward Everett, Hale says
that when be was college student he and
his chum took the first daguerreotype picture
male in Boston
Ivan Stepanoff, of Tobolsk, Siberia, was at
one time governor Of one Of the Siberian
provinces He is about 5 feet 8 inches in
height and weighs $50 pounds
Ex-Congressman William L. Scott has ac-
CURED another large tract Of coal lands, and
is said to be the largest owner Of this species
Of property in Western Pennsylvania
DR. Charles G. Eames Of New York city,
owns all old stone house in Berkshire county,
Mass, and close by it Is the veritable black
unith shop Of Elihu Burritt, the linguist.
Governor Beaver, OF Pennsy lvania. deter
mined when he assumed his present office to
visit every county in the Keystone state
| He has Just completed his task by his visit To
| Pike county.
According to Mr.. Ruskin's recent criticism,
there is no genius about the English Ian.
| guage He defines the Welsh language as
the language Of music, the Scotch Of poetry
and the Irish Of wit.
| The pope recently gave Archbishop Corri
gan, of New York city. two of his jubilee
| presents-a chalice and a ciborium-both Of
which are of gold while the chaliee is studded
with amethysts and rubies
| W T. Anderson, of Warwick, n Y, has
in his Possession a tlntlock musket which has
curious history. 1t was gift of William
| ", king of England, to Kamehameha II,
king of the Sandwich Islands.
Oliver Wendell Holmes says that in re-
| viewing his life he finds that he has taken
more interest in surgery than in poetry but
| efforts of his pen, not Of his knife.
The next candidate for literary honors Of
| the neutrality-suspicious. school is said to be
son of Sir Edwin Arnold, Mr.. E. l.. arnold.
| His story Is entitled The Wonderful Ad-
ventures of Phra. the Phenician."
John Huntington and his son. W. 7. R.
| Huntington. of Cleveland. own two Of the
best watches in the world They are dupli-
Gates and were ordered by the senior hunt
ington in 1881 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Tennyson has horror Of the biographer
| He keeps no diary and has destroyed his cor
respondence and all records OF it. He is re-
ported to have said TO a friend recently;
when am dead will take good care they
shall not rip me up like pig"
Prince Bsmarcks special medical attend
ant, Professor Schwenineer who cured the
chancellor Of his too pronounced tendency to
| stoutness. is, by particular desire Of the sui
tan, about to instruct two Turkish physi.
clans in his special method Of treatment.
| Mr. Gladstone had been acquainted witt
his future wife for five years before they
were married. Their first meeting took
! place in 1884, at the house in Tilney street,
| Park lane. of Mr.. Mines Gaskell, who was
an intimate friend of Mr.. Gladstone at Eton
! and Oxford
Mr.. Laurence Hutton has hit upon novel
| idea for decoration in his study. The frieze
| that runs around the room is made Of the
death masks Of distinguished men and women.
| The effect is striking, and not ulsuggestive
| Of the famous room in Bluebeard's castle
| Sir Edward Watkin proposes II ever he
| gets his Channel tunnel cut through-and
that's big, big ito run trains direct from
| London to Gibraltar, transfer cars by boat
to Tangier, and thence along the north coast
of Africa, through Egypt, down the Persian
| gulf to kurrachee and SO on to Calcutta,
| without change of cars.