Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-04-01
MASCULINE MENTION.

Ex-Governor Bob Taylor, of Tennessee,
is noted as "a man who Is fond of prae-
teal joke,
Mr.. Winans, the superintendent Of pub
lie instruction in Kansas, was formerly
bricklayer in Atchison.
Krupp. NJ great gunmaker, is taxed on
an income Of 81 500. 600, and stands at the
top OF his class Of income taxpayers.
Colonel Olcott has resigned his position
as president general OF the Throsophieal
society on account of old age and impaired
health.
Loubct the head of the new French cab
met, Is described as man who has been
sixteen years in public life without making
a record.
Vice President Morton is reported to he
a man of many charities, who in quiet
way gives tens OF thousands of dollars to
the poor every year.
Captain Andreas. we'll known Chica-
goan, has double in the person of beg
gar, who makes life miserable for him by
pretending to be his brother.
Frank Mclaughlin, the Publisher and
one of the principal owners of the Phila-
delphia Times, though not so large physi-
cally bears close facial resemblance to
Edwin Forrest.
John d. Rockefeller has three watchmen
in his employ who stand guard eight hours
at time. Jay Gould has three. Colonel
Elliot f. Shepard has u six foot lrishman To
watch his house
The Duke of Beaufort is one of the hand
soonest men in the British peerage. He is
"A few years under seventy, with hair of
silvery whitcness but with all the activity
and vgor Of youth.
Jack Irwin, of Glover's Mills, Ky, is over
eighty years of age, and he boasts that for
the last thirty-siN years he has not drunk
any water, combining himself To tea, coffee
and milk as thirst quenchers.
General Simeon Mills. of Milwaukee, the
oldest of the surviving pioneers Of Wiscon
sin. mt one time carried the mail from Mil
waukee to Madison, leaving letters ON the
way at Lighthouses scattered along the In
dian trail
Ex-Speaker Reed recently defined t..
statesman rs a successful politician who is
dead, and Immediately a Boston man telc-
graphed him, asking, why don't you
dieg' This was the reply Not yet fame
is the last inirmity of noble minds,
Sir William Thomson, +. II. $, d. C.. L.,
LII. D., the famous scientist recently elt-
waited to the pccrafse, has selected as his
title Baron Kelvin. The new peer has long
had a worldwide reputation as a man Of
science, especially in the domain of elec-
tricity.
General Nelson a. Miles should in the
regular order of promotion become the
general commanding the United States
army two years hence. In that case he will
he the first man since General Winfield
Scott not graduated at West Point to hold
that place.
Congressman Lon Stewart, of Illinois,
has one home interest that he never neg
lects. Whenever circus comes anywhere
near Plano, the town which his farm all
joins, he hires n special train and takes all
the children OF the place to the show At his
own expense.
Ezra b. Taylor of Warren, O.. who was
elected to congress to Ill Gartield's place
when the latter was made Uni nd States
senator and then president, and has been
reelected right along ever since, announces
his determination to retire to private life
a lp pfll uf his tarn