Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-11
PEOPLE PASSED AWAY.

LORD MACAULAY's executors have in their hands some unpublished ballads of h Is that he wished should not bo pulp lished.
 JOHN JACOB AsTOR died worth S40,- 0oO,0 ,0OO after beginning on q salary of two dollars a week for heating furs in a damp cellar. The $iO,0Uo, ,000 left by him in 1S49 has grown in forty years to $2OO, ,OOO, ,OOO. Tho Astors know tho value of money and II yer waste or spent it uselcssly. Tho habits of the elder Astors were as regular as Dutch clock. His only recreation was a game of checkers; his only beverage was a glass of ale after dinner.
 A NEPHEW of Millet lives in Now York and recently talking about the great master said '''rhe friends of the family never thought much of the works which he created, and his crca- tions were looked upon as the result of so much timo lost, which could havc been profitably employed in attending to the productions of his farm. So the influences around Millct were not very encouraging, and when he painted tho 'Angelus' he was obliged to sell it for bread"
 
 bert, the story goes, introduced herself to the Marshal twenty-siX years ago at an official ball. The young lady walked up to him and said: "Monsicur, will you dance with mo?" The surprised soldier ''bcggcd off in few confused words; then, tuyning to young officer beside him, he said: twill you kindly take my place beside tho young lady, hor h i,, irh o1 of France envies sub-Licutenant?" Her name was Flora Macdonald then, but the Marshal soon got her consent to have it changed.
 As A boy the lato Washington Irving Bishop was Q terror. An old school mate of his says that all his classmates stood in awe of him, and that even his mother was horriG,l at some of his pranks. One day in the school-room he took snakc out of his pocket and sot 1t crawling toward tho teacher, who was scared out of his wits. In later years he used to delight in surrounding himself with mystery. and in street cars and other public places would frighten by islanders by apparently swallowing live frogs and taking rabbits out of the pockets of strangers.
 
 Hartford, were both genial and fun loving clergymen, and when the two met there was always 8 delightful pas sage of wit, as the following anecdote illustrates: Ono of Dr. Cages lectures had proved to be less attractive than the others, and on it's second repetition 1t had become a chestnut" and did not draw" many left. When Dr. Gage was relating to Dr. Burton his experi- ence with a burglar he said: "Why, doctor, had him down flat on his back II held him there-he couldn't move an inchv' What a splendid opportu- nity," retorted Dr. Burton, "that was, Gage, to have delivered to him your lecture on Palestine"
 THE late Dr. Horatius Bonar was re- markable for his intense love of preach ing. He came to tho pulpit often when he was hardly able to undertake pulpit duty, but as soon as he found himself in the place where he was wont to speak to his people he seemed to become ani. mated by their presence, and to gathe I earnestness from the very attention which was always in a remarkable de- gree given to him while he spoke. He had this peculiarity as preacher, that he possessed the almost lost art oi preaching without notes. He prepared his subject carefully, but he spoke en- tirely from memory, and often impromp. tu, with an air of authority which, with his venerable appearance and character, gave weight to his words.
 Pearls White Glycerine is harmless, and