Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Nev. County, Ark.) 1885-1???, 1891-06-04
pERSC. =. AND imPeRSONAL.

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1T Is ia GUS coincidence that the
rcprcrat.- So. cons of Bismarck and
Glad..lan aou'l boar the name Her
bert.
When i. T.. Blrnum WAS introduced
to Sir Arthur sullivan he remarked: 81
am glad to have the opportunity OF meet
ing you. You are celebrated. | am no
torious.'
/ Ben Butler is reported TO be worth
s., 600, Ooa. He has law offices in several
cities and practice worth 500 coo a
year. Lowell is the place he calls his
home, and his residence there Is
palace
The largest landowner 10 the world
/ is said to be Mrs Emr f.. Forsyth,
the daughter OF former American Con-
sui at Samoa. She has plantation OF
one hundred and fifty thousand acres on
an island near Now Guinea, and en-
ploys over five hundred people on it.
1t was popularity Of the late Sam
uel J. Randall that he left the handling
Of his own financial matters to his wife.
/ 1t was a common occurrence for those
I WIZ htIC az hAD hNA''O w
! hear him call to his young son Sammy
/ to ask mother for 80 cents or 81 where
with to buy postage stamps.
/ This is how General Sherman ex-
presses himself about the telephone:
/ It's ono of the biggest Of modern nui-
/ sances I've tried the telephone ten
/ thousand times and never knew 1t to
work right If ! want to send mes
sage / believe in putting q man on q
horse and letting him deliver it,
! The secret of a long life is said, by
George Bancroft, to be nothing moro
! than the power either natural or &C
quired, of controlling the temper. III
you will never get angry he says, you
| will live to be ninety" The venerable
historian has probably applied his own
/ theory with good practical results, as he
! has already reached his ninetieth year
Although General John C. Fremont
/ Is eighty years old he has always been
/ an active business man. He kept an
/ Office in an old-fashioned building on
| lower Broadway, New York, where he
/ gave his attention to mining schemes
and other speculative enterprises. The
/ Generals mind is clear, and he takes as
! keen an interest in public events as he
did when in the prime of life.
--Chauncey NJ. Depew is quoted as
making tho interesting statement that
about a hundred men whom he can re-
call as having been famous in Wall
street during the war for fortunes made
suddenly in speculative deals, and who
have since dropped out of sight are now
life insurance agents. He said he at
tended an insurance banquet recently
, and seyenty-live per cent. of the agents
present had formerly been famous as
successful Wall street traders.
-There are now living in Washington
a married couple, psul and Albina He'll
muth, who were born at Baden, Ger
many, February l, 1877, within four
miles OF each other Even through their
childhood, playing in the streets of the
same town, they were strangers to each
other. In tho course of events they
I came across the ocean to the land of
I promise, and at different times and by
different paths thoy drifted to Washing
/ ton, where they met, and loved and
welded. Upon comparing notes to take
| out their marriage license they dis
| covered, to their mutual surprise and
! qualification, that they were not only
natives of the same place but re oiced in
! exactly the Same ages to day.