Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-09-14
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Since his recent marriage Meissonier has
neglected his palette
President Harrison has leased his house in
indianapolis for three years
The Rev Ellis Howell, of Marshall. Ills
has just married his one-thousandeth couple
DR. Nansen, who lately completed an I'D
venturous journey across Greenland. Is only
"a years old.
Gen Crook says that Sitting Bull has no
reputation among the Indians as brave. but
only as a medicine man
Samuel Ayres an Adventist, living in Wor
cester, Mass, predicts the end OF tho world
on the night OF Oct. 7, 1889
Edwin s. Conner, an aged actor OF Phila
delphia, has acted Richeleu l,0i3 times. but
has never seen any one else act it.
Ex-Mayor MCGOWAN, OF Trenton, who 10
prominently mentioned a. candidate for
governor, began life As newsboy
Mr. Gladstone allows all the people In the
neighborhood of Hawartien tc freely use his
splendid library of 20,0o0 volumes
Henry Irving writes to a friend denying
emphaticaly that he has complained Of un
fair treatment by the American press
DR. Talmage say, be has been deceived and
defrauded by many people, but that no news
paper man ever broke professional faith With
him
Sims Reeves, the English tenor, is about to
take another farewell Of the public He con
siders the money thus obtained the cream of
ta-ta
DR. Oscar Montelius estimates that the
stone age GUIDED about $500 Year, ago In
ltrvk Laval
opmept
IL has been stated that the lamented Father
Damien attributed bis ieprosy TO the inoculA
ton OF an abrasion IL the scalp through the
agency of flies
Eighty years ago Tennyson. Darwin, Glad
stone, Lincoln, Oliver Wendell Holmes Edgar
Allan Poe and Lord Houghton were born.
1909 was great year
Lord Charles Beresford is authority for
the statement that the guns Of the ransat
lantic liner Teutonic could have sunk Mel
sons whole feet IN half an hour
Gustave Dunoutier has constructed q veri
table Buddhist temple in Paris, on the Champ
de Mars, for the use of Annamites aud Chi
nese who may visit the exposition
The president OF the French council, ~
Tirard. is "Cockney PaI isian." Before EN-
barking in politics be kept jewelers. shop
imitation jeweIry and "Brummagem" clocks
Philip Grenan, who left the United States
forty years ago is now at the bead Of prob
ably the larges, stevedore business In Bonn
bay, India employing no less than 1000
men
Alexander Mackenzie, ex-premier Of Can
ada, Is in delicate health Mr.. Mackenzie was
offered the doubtful honor Of knighthood ten
years ago and refused it. He is bricklayer
by trade
The late Judge Terry took part In the first
battle Of Bull Run, lighting in civilianS
clothes OIL the southern side. He commanded
an independent body Of Texan cavalry later
in the war
The late Daniel K Steward, who is said to
have been the wealthiest man In Virginia.
made bis money on snuff and tobacco. He
was Scotchman and never surrendered biz
allegiance to Great Britain.
Channcey NJ. Depew who has recently bad
an opportunity Of making an instantaneous
study of Emperor William, is very much I'M
pressed by his militarism. He says that
William looks every inch the emperor.
Robert Ray Hamilton Ia 81 years old,
though he hooks younger He Is an agreeable
conversatlonaiist ami fair public speaker
1t was he that conducted the proceedings
against Capt Cregan In behalf Of Allen
Thorndike Rice, whose close persoual friend
be was
Gen N p Banks has had varied career
He was "boobin boy" in a factory, an actor
afty years ago. having played Claude Mel
notte in the Lady Of Lyons" at the old Ma
ional theatre, Boston. Later on he ives .
lawyer, and s. u later q general In the army,
governor Of HE state Of Massachusetts. and
speaker OF the house in the same stAtA
The late William Thaw, of Pittsburg, Pa,
was 9 man Of extraordinary intelligence, hav-
ing q remarkable memory, and discussed the
affairs Of the world at large with rare d.
gree OF discerument and power Of expression
possasei by but few individuAls He
dressed plainly, with noticeable absence OF
jewelry. and his generosity was prov~bial
The name Of Charles A. Absoiom, who
came to death By an untimeiy accident on The
steamship Muriel, Is known 70 all cricketera
he was graduated at Oxford ct the bsad Of
his class, and was a man Of good birth and
breeding. In his youth he was the mos to
NOUS cricketer in all England His eccsa-
tricity vas to play without his hat In An
tralia he played bareheaded under the broil-
ing sun, with the mercury at 10 degx, and
while in the West Indies he slept on dsck
hnreheAded in rain and dew.