Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-09-05
renoUNaL GOSSIP.

Cardinal Newman was an accomplished
performer on tie violin.
Congressman Lewis is the nearest living
relative of George Washington.
Senator German was a baseball player
once, and he is still very enthusiastic over
the game.
Boulanger is now a journalist He helps
Ill managing The Voix du Peuple, a Paris
weekly, Boulangist organ.
Mr.. Topping, of Plainfleld, Livingston
county, Mich, has been postmaster through
thick and thin for fifty years.
F. p Sargent, the head of the Brother.
hood of Firemen was a cavalryman dur
ing the latter days of the war
Hannibal Hamlin speaks of himself az
the healthiest man in Maine. notwith.
standing his eighty-one years.
William K Vanderbilt has given his
check for $1,000 to young man who was
bitten by one of his pet hounds
Professor F W. Newman, brother of the
late cardinal is hale old man of SIS, and
has been vegetarian since he was 62.
MIR Powderly dresses neatly in black and
his linen is always clean and spotless. His
head is bald, and he wears gold trimmed
spectacles
Ex-Congressman w. l.. Scott sold from
his farm in Northampton county in 1889
sS5, 900 worth of truck The farm expenses
were $4,000
Max Hombourg, the son Of a Moscow
music teacher, is the latest infant phenom-
enon. Though only years old he is re-
markable pianist
Count Casa de la Miranda, the husband
Of Christine Nilsson, has been appointed
an under secretary of state in the new
Spanish ministry
The late Capt Ebenezer Morgan, of Gro.
ton, Conn, first raised the American flag
in Alaska after that country had become
United States property
Senator Hawley possesses, in handsome
binding, George Washington's own copy
Of the statutes of the First congress, which
met in New York in 1889
Professor James D Dana, the geologist.
Is the only man living who assisted in
forming the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, fifty years ago.
Professor Samuel Lockwood of New
Jersey. president of the United States Hay
Fever association, says there are about
100000 hay fever sufferers in the United
States
DR. Herrick johnson. of Chicago. Is
pointed ont to the Saratoga visitors as the
most expert croquet player among the doc
tors Of divinity there who indulge in that
intellectual game.
William Waldorf Aston Is to give bronze
gates to Trinity church, New York, as a
memorial to his father. They will be mod.
eled after the famous bronze gates of the
Baptistry in Florence.
The Hon. Charles Fitzpatrick, who is to
be sworn in as member of the Quebec
cabinet is believed to be the irst Irish
Land Lacquer to become minister of the
crown in the queens dominions
Maj r. c. Mcdowell who is now the
owner of the old Henry Clay homestead, is
a member by marriage of the statesman's
family and courteously shows all visitors
over the historic house, which is kept as
nearly as possible as it was when Clay oc
cupied it
MIR. Philip j. A. Harper senior member
of the publishing firm of Harper e. Broth
ers, has retired from business after many
years of active work He is the son Of
like other members of the family, showed
a special aptitude for the business
President Harrison received his invitation
to attend the celebration of the fortieth
anniversary of the admission of California
into the Union in the shape of plate of
solid gold, with the state coat~of-arms in
relief on it in enamel and gold, and the
words of the invitation finely engraved on
the surface
Secretary Proctor has received present
Of a new Enfield rifle from the English
government as a sample of the style OF
arm now in use in the British service II
Is handsomely incased in polished wooden
box, with silver plates and corners, and
lined with blue velvet. 1t is of the
latest magazine pattern, thirty caliber and
weighs about ten pounds