Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-02-19
NOTED pEorLE.

Senator Kyle - a regularly OfdSlned
preacher and for three years he filed
a Congregational pulpit.
Professor Agassiz. of Harvard. de.
Clares that in his opinion Dom Pedro was
the best practical geologist in the world.
Ii is said that Mrs Mackay has man
tie of black fox made up Of 900 separ-
ate skins which eight years ago cost e2,-
500.
Princess Victoria. Of Hawaii who has
been educated IN England. win go TO
Wellersley College. near Boston TO finish
her education
Adelina Patti is of Italian descent. She
was born in Madrid in lS43 and made her
first appearance on the operatic stage in
New York ia 1853
At the age of u years. a Mr. Miller, Of
Missouri, has taken his first trip on the
railroad. 81 felt safe, he reports, "and
liked il better'n I'd expected 10. +"
Oliver Hitchcock. the famous coffee
and cakes man, of Park Row, New York,
made half million catering to news
paper men and other owls in the mo-
tropolis.
Men run upon fortunes as by accident.
Colonel North, the nitrate king, when
boy worked in a boiler shop. He was
sent 10 Peru as "a machinist, and there
discovered the worth of the nitrate beds.
Ex-senator Jones, of Florida, contin-
ues TO nurse the delusion that resulted in
his insanity. Physically he is rather in
better condition than he has been for
years, and on ordinary matters his iudg-
ment is sound.
Lem Lincoln, full cousin Of Abraham
Lincoln, lives near Liberty, Mo. He
was raised with Abe until both were
young men, almost grown, and they
We're like brothers together so close was
their connection.
Two men are now living who rode ON
the first locomotive ever run in this
country They are the Hon Otis Avery
and the Hon John Torrey. 1t was the
trial trip made in Honesdale, Pa, their
home, in the year 1929.
Thomas Dunn English, now IS years
old, but a member of Congress from New
Jersey, was the authorof the song so pop.
ular with our grandfathers when they
were young-"o Don't You Remember,
Sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?'
To an American who recently asked
Ibsen whether he would not visit Amer
lea some time, he replied "America2
That frog pond where every frog pokes
his head above the surface and croaks at
some other frogf Not much.
The Grand Old Man Of Great Britain
grows shorter in stature as he grows
older. Doctors are familiar with the
physiological fact that the very old
shorten in physical stature, and Mr.. Glad.
stone is said TO be not so tall by twoinches
now as he was when in his prime.
Mr. Stickler, one of the Worlds Fair
Commissioners from Germany, has in his
possession the original sword carried by
Christopher Columbus at the time Of his
discovery Of America The sword be.
longs TO the museum Of Salzburg, Ger.
many, aud has been lent for exhibition
at Chicago in 1898.
Frederick Douglass recently secured a
place as clerk in the Agricultural Depart
ment for the daughter of his old master
in the days of slavery. The lady was
brought up in extreme luxury, bat has
for 10 years experienced great privations;
aud when the case was presented to Sec
retsry Rusk he appreciated its poetic and
pathetic aspects.
Mrs John sherman has never had a
photograph or other picture taken since
her husband first entered Congress, and
go fixed is her determination in the mat.
ter that when the cabinet members aud
their families of the Hayes administra-
ton presented their photographs TO the
President and his wife Mrs Sherman re-
fused TO break her rule.
John Ruskin, at the age OF Z. wrote in
blank verse a singular essay on Time.
The next year he wrote an invocation 10
the sun to shine on his garden, which is
an amusing, almost pathetic, mixture Of
poetry and pathos. At the age of 20 he
gained the Newdigate prize for English
poetry, and soon after abandoned the
muse because, as he said, he could not
express his ideas in verse.