, 1890-01-30

AN Eastern Oregon town Is called
Six Dollar.
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PERSONALITIES.
Grover Cleveland and Chauncey
Dcpcw are the two names men,
toned for director general of the
worlds fair In case IL should go To
New York.
Jones Ordway, prominent lum-
herman and millionaire of Glcns
Falls, n. Y, has given n check to
the Young Mems Christian Associ-
ton there for 10000.
Charles King, of Middleton,
Mass, celebrated his lO0th birthday
January 10. He was born in st.
Jorya, about thirty-siN miles below
Quebec, January Is, lTsl.
Captain Cook, the recently elect
ed doorkeeper of the Kentucky
house of representatives, is 33 years
old, seven feet in height, weighs 260
pounds and wears No. 10 shoes.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, the poet,
who is recent victim of the grip,
compares the sensation to that of
"a misht skull, that Is too tight
across the forehead and that pinches
behind the ears"
Pietro Marcolln, who has recently
died, Il the only medicant who was
ever allowed to beg in It. Peters at
Rome, The privilege was granted
by Plus IN, and the beggar leaves
Il fortune of 100000.
Dom Pedro, recently of Brazil, has
fairly broken down under the load
of misfortune. The genial, kind
hearted old gentleman Is at Cannes,
and ii is clear that the last few
months have told on his mind as
well us his body.
The shah Of Persia, in addition to
the masses of jewels In the royal
treasury, has private fortune
slowed in vault or elsewhere, which
Is known to consist Of az least g3,-
ONO,O 600, TO this he is perpetually
adding fresh accumulations.
William Thornton Blueticld, Of
Hickman county, Tenn, claims to
be l27 years old, and he has records
and documents which go far to sub
stantiate his claim. James Caxton,
of Baton Rogue,.R n grandson of Mr..
Bluetield, died last year ut the age
of 70.
William X. Vanderbilt, who pro-
poses another Eurorean trip, Will
sail with his family ON the steam
yacht Alva, from Beaufort, $. c.,
February |. He will visit the Azores
and take the southwestern ocean
route to the Mediterranean.
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Adcline Jackson, the colorcd cook
of II hotel ut Freehold, n, j., died
Thursday Of pneumonia, after three
days illness. She weighed 800
pounds, and her coffin was seven
feet long, two feet deep,and three feet
wide. Eight men We're required to
carry the remains.
Lady Marie Ede Won Ameline, fa-
nous as tiucr-killer, and Lady
! Eva Wyndham Linn, who slew six
man-caters during a visit to her
uncle the governor of Ncpaul, are
travelling in this country. Lady
Ameilnc Killed four tigers in India
and has their claws and skins.
Queen Nictoria's portrait in Wild
ow's weeds IL still used on the
Scent and G-ccnt postage stamps of
/ Newfoundland. The 1-cent stamp
of the same country shows the
Prince of Wales portrait IA boy.
y stamp Of the colony of Victoria
bears a representation of the queen
/ sitting on her throne.
ANl'N W llElN was NiNl
elected city marshal of Edinburg,
Ind, over George Rath by one
vote. Tho other day, when the bal
lot-boN was taken down for use In
u gravel-road election a vote for
| Rath was found in 1t, which, had ii
been counted, would have made the
election tic.
/ Walker Blainc's most striking
characteristic WAS his unfailing good
mature. Nobody ever knew him to
lose his temper. There have been
| times, by no means remote, when
politicians, Office seekers and
brokcn-down heelers subjected him
TO a constant strain, hut he never
said IA cross word and was always
the same well-polsed gentleman.
Joseph Howe, one Of the 800 who
made the famous charge at Bal
akluva, lives In Hartford, and Is
prostrated by the prevailing epi-
demic. lie says he had rather go
through u dozen Balaklava expert
ences than have the grip.
General Jackson, according to n
New Orleans antiquarian, appeared
on the battlefield al Chalmettc
logged out In n queer style. He
Wore full suit of regimentals save
and CXcppllnV the Chapeau bras.