Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-09-06
PERSONAL GOSSIP,

Since his recent marriage Meissonier has
neglected his palette
President Harrison has leased his house In
Indiana polls for three years.
The Rev. Ellis Howell. of Marshall. Ills,
has just married his one-thousandeth couple.
Dr. Nansen, who lately completed an ad-
venturous journey across Greenland, is only
% years old.
Gen. Crook says that Sitting Bull has no
reputation among the Indians as a brave, but
only a medicine man.
Samuel Ayres, an Adventist, living in Wor-
cester, Mass, predicts the end of the world
on the night Of Oct. Z, 1889.
Edwin S. Connor, an aged actor OF Phila-
delphia, has acted Richeeu lob times, but
has never seen any one else act it
Ex-Mayor MCGOWAN, of Trenton, who Is
prominently mentioned as a candidate for
governor, began life as newsboy.
Mr.. Gladstone allows all the people in the
neighborhood of Hawarden to freely use his
splendid library of 10000 volumes.
Henry Irving writes to a friend denying
emphatically that he has complained of un-
fair treatment by the American press.
Dr. Talmage says he 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 ended about $500 years ago in
Sweden, where it reached very high devel-
opment
1t has been stated that the lamented Father
Damien attributed his leprosy to the inocula-
ton of an abrasion in 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 bornt
1909 was great year.
Lord Charles Beresford Is authority for
the statement that the guns of the transat-
lantic liner Teutonc could have sunk Nel-
sons whole feet in half an hour.
Gustave Dumoutier has constructed a verb
table Buddhist temple in Paris on the Champ
de Mars, for the use of Annamites and Chi
nese who may visit the exposition.
The president of the French council, NJ
Tirard, is "Cockney Partisan" Before emf
barking in politics he kept jewelers. shop
I
Philip Grenan who left the United States
forty years ago, is now at the head of prob
ably the largest 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, fighting in civilians
clothes on 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 a Scotchman and never surrendered hts
allegiance to Great Britain.
Chauncey NJ. Depew, who has recently had
an opportunity of making an instantaneous
study of Emperor William Is very much inn
pressed by his militarism. He says that
William looks every inch the emperor.
Robert Ray Hamilton is 81 years old,
though he looks younger. He an agreeable
conversationalist and fair public speaker
1t was he that conducted the proceedings
Thorndike Rice whose close personal friend
he was.
Gen. n. P. Banks has had a varied career.
He was 'bobbin boy" in factory, an actor
fifty years ago, having played Claude Mel
notte in the Lady Of Lyons" at the old Ma
,ional theatre, Boston. Later on he was q
lawyer and still later a general in the army,
governor of the state of Massachusetts, and
speaker of the house in the same state.
The late William Thaw, of Pittsburg, Pa,
was man of extraordinary intelligence, hav-
ing a remarkable memory, and discussed the
affairs of the world at large with rare de-
gree of discernment and power of expression
possessed by but few individuals. He
dressed plainly, with noticeable absence Of
jewelry, and his generosity was proverbial.
The name of Charles A. Absolom. who
came to death by an untimely accident on the
steamship Muriel, is known to all cricketers.
He was graduated at Oxford at the head Of
his class, and was a man of good birth and
breeding In bis youth he was the most fa-
nous cricketer in all England. His eccen-
tricity was to play without his hat. In Aus
tralia he played bareheaded under the broil-
ing sun, with the mercury at TO dogs, and
while in the West Indies he slept on deck
bareheaded in rain and dew.