Nevada County picayune., 1891-01-22
PERSONAL AND iMrERsONAL L

-iti7 cur ous coincidence that the roprcscu.":ir. sons of Bismarck and Gladstons aAould boar the name "ller- bert"
 When 2. T. B,rnum was introduced to Sir Arthur sullivan he remarked: Il am glad to have the opportunity Of meet Ing you. You are celebrated. l am no- torious."
 Ben Butler is reported to be worth s5, 900, ,00o He has law offices in several cities and q practice worth Sl00 coo year. Lowell is the place he calls his home, and bis residence there is a palace.
 The largest landowner "a the world Is said to be Mrs. Emr :. E. Forsyth, the daughter of a former American Con- sul at samoa. She has . plantation of one hundred and fifty thousand acres on an island near Now Guinea, and em- ploys over i've hundred people on it.
 It was a poculiarity of the late Sam uel J. Randall that he left the handling of his own financial matters to his wife. It was common occurrence for those who wore frequently at his homo to hear him call to his young son Sammy to ask mother for 50 cents or Sl where- with to buy postage stamps.
 This is how General sherman ex- presses himself about the telephone: It's one 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 I believe in putting a man on a horse and letting him deliver it.
 The secret of long life is said, by George Bancroft, to be nothing moro than the power, either natural or ac. quired, of controlling the temper. "1f 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. Dcpcw is quoted as making the interesting statement that about hundred men whom he can re. call az having been famous in Wall street during the war for fortunes made suddenly in speculative deals, and who have since dropped out of sight, arc now iifo insurance agents. He said he at- tended an insurance banquet recently and seventy-five per cent. of the agents present had formerly been famous as successful Wall street traders
 There are now living in Washington a married couple, Paul and Albina He'll muth, who were born at Baden, Ger many, February l, lS47, 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 the course of events they came across the ocean to the land of promise and at different times and by different paths they 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 rejoiced in exactly the same ages to a day.