Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-02-13
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
President Harrison often plays billiards

President Harrison often plays billiardA
Ths late Count Alloys KArolyi, Of Hungary
left . fortune Of &, 100000.
George W. Childs recently bought 81
clocks. He paid 81, 100 for one
Tamagno, the opera singer, receives g., 0N
. night, and tips hotel walters with one cen,
pieces.
lie men who subscribe to newspaper -iippings
agencies.
The late John H. Applegate, Of Asbury
Park, invented . machine for lasting shoes
that brought him 500
IL is related that when Calvin s. Brice
went to college he often found 1t hard work
to pay his necessary expenses.
secretsry Proctor has = fortune Of nearl,
500, 900 and some valuable marble contract.
that bring him in $4,000 year besides his
official salary.
The late Capt. Alexander Cuthbert, Of On.
tario, Canada, built the yachts Countess Of
Duirerin and AtalantA. which sailed for the
America cup respectively IN 1876 and 1881.
The late Henry W. Grady, Of Atlanta, Ga.
left comfortably large estate. A partner
values his newspaper ir -srcst at $780, 900 and
his home property at so 900. He had sl6,-
600 or &l7, 600 life insurance.
The late Judge Kelley told friend Of his
some time ago that the trouble with his law
grew out OF habit he had Of going to bet;
with quid Of tobacco in his cheek--a prac-
tice which he had kept up from his boy
hood.
DR.. Frederick Bramann, who performed
traeheotomy on Emperor Frederick in 1883
recently became extraordinary professor of
surgery in the University Of Berlin. He was
graduated in medicine and surgery barely
ten years ago.
The Vanderbilt family, who are member.
Of ST. Bartholomew's parish, New York, gave
their rector, the Rev. DR.. Greer. a satisfac-
tory sort Of Christmas present in the shape
Of paid up life insurance policy on the en-
doument plan for $4,000
The late DR.. Reichenhach, keeper of the
botanical garlens at Hamburg, left his
library and collections OF plants to the Vienna
Court museum. The library contains about
1000 works in 5000 volumes. and the her
barium about 70O,0O sheets
Junius S. Morgan, the London banker,
has made gift to the library Of Yale uni.
versity and to the Connecticut Historical so
ciety each Of a copy of the work Of the fac-sim-
lies OF manuscripts relative to America,
from 1863 TO 1883, In the archives Of Eng
land, France Holland and Spain
Chauncey NJ. Depew says he made the
great mistake Of his life when he delivered
his first humorous speech He didn't see il
chen, but now he realizes it keenly. Instead
II Icing regarded a. convincing logician,
T good lawyer, or even as a serious think
r, he is always taken for funny man.
Maj. Serra Pinto, whose name is 70 -,mj
leni in connection with African affairs, wes
born in the province Of Douro, Portugal, in
April, 1876. and was educated at the Military
college, Lisbon He joined the Portuguese
army in 1868, rose pretty rapidly, and be-
came an aid-de-camp to the king in 1880
He was in the Zambesi war in 1861, and com
manded the African native troop.
Christian, the late veteran comedian Of the
Paris Varieties, was the most prolific ard tn
veterate punster on the French stage. His
gags" were so successful that they were
nearly always adopted by the play wrights in
the printed editions Of their works His dra-
matte career, though obscure in its begin
ming, eventually brought him to the front
rank. His greatest creation was probably
the role of Jupiter. in OfYenhach's "Orphes
aux Enfers"