The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-08-05
MEN AND WON Ev.

! Leo XIII is the richest man in Rome
Sir Arthur Sullivan realized $50, 900 BY
| his song "1'he Lost Chord"
Rutherford B. Hayes is ranked among
the millionaires of this country.
Nine. Patti says she will sing as long
as she is able to do herself justice.
General N. P. Banks gives good deal
OF attention to gardening in his old age.
Mr.. Gladstone goes to church twice on
Sunday and designates those who attend
in the morning once.ers.
Judge Field Is now seventy six years OF
aye and has been on the Supreme Bench
twenty.nine years.
Dona Isadora Cousino of Chill is said
to be worth $500, 900, 900, making her the
richest woman in the world.
Presidents Washington, Jackson, Van
! BureD, Taylor, Fillmore, Lincoln, John.
son and Cleveland were not college grad.
| yates.
Phillips Barry, q twelve year, old lad
is one Of the best botanists in Boston
where he has taken several prizes at ex.
hibitions. He knows Gray's Manual al.
most by heart.
Tennyson is great admirer Of Gray
and Burns, and once said that ho would
rather have written the 1Elegy in the
Country Churchy ard" than any other
poem.
Princess Marie Of Edinburg who was
recently betrothed to Ferdinand Of Ho-
hsnzollern, Crown Prince Of Roumania.
is one Of Queen Victoria's clevsrest and
prettiest granddaughter.
Mr.. Gladstone is known among his
colleagues in public life as "the man
| with the terrible memory" and yet il
has been said Of him that he has forgot
ten more than most British statesmen
| ever knew.
Lord Tennyson is the oldest English
author, his first book having been pub
lisl,ed in 1880. Mr.. Gladstone comes
next, his pamphlet, "The State in Its
Relations with the Church., appearing
eight years later.
"When was boy, says Mr.. Edison,
II sold peanuts and newspapers on the
railway trains. One day baggage por-
ter lifted the from the ground by my
ears-the membranes snapped and that
is how became deaf"
Samuel Tarwater, OF Ray county, aged
ninety years. is paid a pension of 5000 a
year by the State OF Missouri for wounds
received in the Mormon war The pen
sion was granted by special act Of the
legislature in lS41.
Lord Brassey was at one time Eng.
lands greatest railroad contractor and
builder aud amassed huge fortune in
his business. He now makes it rule to
save one.third Of his vast income and
to put it away with his other accumula-
| tions.
Living Generals who led armies in the
war for the Union are Henry NJ. Slo.
cum, w. s. Rosscrans, Don Carlos Buell.,
John Pope, Benjamin F. Butler, Franz
Sigsl, o. o. Howard, Daniel Buttsrfeld.
Abuer Doubleday and Benjamin F. Har.
| rison.
Bishop Fitzgerald Of the Southern
Methodist Church, defends the iynching
Of certain negroes on the ground tha,
1.-The unspeakable crime for which they
were lynchsd, outlaws the perpetrator,
whether white or black, in every part Of
the United States"
Mrs. Chauncey Dspew says Of her
daughters: "One accomplishment that
am anxious to have them all acquire is
that Of reading aloud we'll. l conside,
that very necessary part Of good
education, and also that they should
learn to enuDciate their words clearly
and correctly"
Miss Betsey Trumbull, who died, re.
| Gently, at the almshouse in Skowhegan,
Maine, at the age Of ninety two, was sup
ported by the town from the day Of hsl
birth to the day Of her death. She was
Of feeble intellect, and unable to take
care Of herself. Ninety.t two years on q
poor farm is the longest time on record,
Whitelaw Reid is not the man he was
four years ago. His form is bent and
his gait Is that Of q man well along in
the sixties. Acting On the advice Of his
family physician, he has taken to horse.
back.riding and carriage drives, and
may be seen any, fair morning in the
company Of u. o. Mills on the central
drive near the Mathew York Re.
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