The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-09
Masculine Mention.

Mr.. Gibbs Of Paterson, n. j., has smoked
100 consecutive cigarettes on a bet.
James Tuckett, famous as Inspector
Bucket in Dickens BLEAK House." is
now living in San Francisco.
The Beecbers are long lived family. In
addition to Mrs. Stowe, Edward Beecher
'till lives at the age of eighty-nine.
Uncle" Wash Couch, who lives near
5enola, Ga, has four sons who are said to
nave been born on the same day of the
month at different years.
Rev. DR.. Milburn, the blind preacher
and ex-chaplan of the house of representa-
ives, has completed an extensive work on
The early history of the Mississippi valley.
The director of the United States geo
graphical survey, Maior j. w. Powell, did
good deal Of his book studying when a
boy while driving OK teams fifty or sixty
miles to market.
Ria Kittredge, an expert microscopic
penman, of Belfast, Me, has written sew
eral of Gladstone's speeches upon single
postal card and sent the curiosity to the
great Liberal leader
Bismarck is as fond of dogs as Ouida
His inseparable companions are two large
Danish hounds. At dinner they eat beside
their master, and occasionally he feeds
them with his own hands.
Probably the oldest newspaper man in
active service in Ohio is William +. Com
ly, night editor of the Dayton journal.
Although eighty-three years of age he is
said to be as spry as a man of thirty.
Mr.. George w. Childs in addition to his
recent gift of "Childs' arbor" to Delaware
Water gap, has bought a larger tract of
glens and woodlands near Dingman's to be
laid out and opened as public park
Eugene Kelly, the New York banker to
whom the pope has given the honorary APP
pointment Of guardian of the cope and
sword" landed from Ireland with three
dollars. Ten million is now about his size.
Field Marshal General Count Won Blu
lnenthal, who celebrated the eighty-second
anniversary of his birth recently at Quel-
iendorf, near Koethen, is the oldest officer
Of rank higher than that of colonel in the
Prussian army.
Representative w. C. p. breckenridge,
Of Kentucky, has decided to give up his
house in Washington and make Lexington
his home again as far as possible. This is
a result of his wife's recent death, and in
aCSoiuihCc WIN MS uduS ittI > w lSutS.
Bishop O'Farrell, of Trenton, is perhaps
the largest buyer of books in the United
States He buys every year many thou.
sands of dollars worth for distribution
among Catholic clergymen and others, be
sides having a fine private library of his
own.
James J. Hill, who had neither fame nor
fortune prior to 1870, but who is now the
millionaire president of the Great Northern
railroad, paid $l36,350 the other day for
100000 life insurance payable on his death
and an annuity of S12, 800 to begin in ten
years.
Rev. l.. T. Chamberlain, D. D., of Brook
Ign, took part in the recent parade of
coaches and private carriages at Manches-
ter-by-the-Sea. His victoria was decorated
with panses and Virginia creepers on the
body and blackberry vines and nastur-
tiums.
Ben Butler is said to be sadly bent with
age. His face has the look of health, but
his massive frame has become an unmis-
taxable burden. His hands move un.
steadily, while his eyes appear swollen and
almost hidden by the thick folds of flesh
on his cheeks.
Governor Pattison, of PENNSYLVANIA,
while rambling in the suburbs of Phila-
delphia ventured to sit on rustic bench
beneath tree on private grounds, where
upon child informed him that he was
trespassing on her fathers property, and
politely escorted him off the domain.