The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-20

ASTORIA. OREGON:
n,a.v .... DECEMBER 20. 1889
C;,y and County Official Paper.
JoEy JACOB AsToR is called the
r;cbest man in New York to-day, his
fortupe which is mainly in real estate,
hainc estimated at SlOO,OOO,0O0. He
is about seventy years of age and a
widower.
Rry. Mr.. SPURGEoN, the London
n7eacher. receives an average of 500
letters q day, and he employs three
secretaries to answer the communica-
tions which come 10 him from all parts
of the world.
SENIOR GoyzALo EsTEYA, Mexican
journalist, has written book bearing
tbe title of Editorial Prison Life"
He has been in prison various times
for speaking too freely Of the govern
ment. and knows the subject thorough
ly.
ANOTHER infant pianist has been
discovered. This one is but a year old.
His name is Raoul Koczalski, and he
has captured st. Petersburg, where
the newspapers speak in extravagant
terms Of his execution of works of
Chopin.
The Boston Globe has offered two
prizes to the largest family in New
England. A gold watch is to go the
mother and silver mug to the young
est child. A family Of seventeen has
been discovered in Holyoke, Mass, and
at present stand fair chance for the
prizes.
The heirs of Colonel Nicholas Lott
who died in the last century, have
held a meeting at Reading, Pa, and
have taken steps to sue the govern.
ment for S17,0O0,0OO. Lott, it seems
furnished the American army with hay
during the revolution, for which he
was never paid.
JAMES a. STEWART, the newly
elected mayor of Griffin, Ga, is one
of the Youngest mayors on record, his
-twenty-second birthday having been
lust celebrated He is the son OF
congressman J. ID. Stewart who was
greatly surprised when he heard OF
his boys election.
CONGRESSMAN w. L. SCOTT, of Erie
Pa. is worth probably $15,OO0,O0O, bu
he is one of the least ostentatious mer
in congress. His face is sallow anC
he is rather thin and round-shouldered
with sparse sandy hair. He repre-.
sents, either as president or director
$4,000 miles Of railroad.
PROBABLY not one in a hundred
realizes the fact that, next to England
little Holland, whose king is at presen
at deaths door, is the greatest col
onial power in the world. The Dutcl
colonies have an area of nearly 800,
900 square miles, which includes som
of the finest colonial possessions il
the world.
Rev. COBERT COLLIER has pres
ented Cornell college with an oil,
factory bell which had an interesting
history. It was the bell that rams
him to work every morning in hi
young days when he worked at tn
blacksmith's forge and fixed the tim
the days toll was over. The bell vii
be used at Cornell for summonin
the students to their classes.
An interviewed Michigan farme
exclaimed the other day: "Brin
along a cyclone powerful enough t
raise a mortgage, and you may be
your sweet life that half the farmer
in this country would be mighty gla
to shake hands with the critter." l
is an open question whether mort
gage is not. after all, tougher Gus
toner than a cyclone.
GIVE Us on the part of our lawmai
ers a wiser policy in measures ca
culated to foster new industries, eZ
tend our commerce, and increase a
facilities for the education and tram
ing Of the masses so that they may bt
come intelligent, law-abiding, indus
trious and useful citizens, and th
United States viii achieve results SUI
passing anything recorded in the his
tory of the world.
THE total extinction of wild AM
mails that are too largeto effectuall
secrete themselves from. rapaciou
hunters is lmerely a question of TIM
The day is coming, unless the law ir
tervenes, when no animals but thOs
that crawl and burrow viii be left fo
the sportsman. In that coming tim
turtle stalking may of necessity /
raised to the rank OF sport.