Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-18
MASCULINE MENTION.

/ Herbert Spencer has an intense dislike tc
/ eating his meals with or before other peo
Pile
/ Secretary Elkins is said to have more
! callers than any previous secretary since
the war days.
Baron Henri de Rothschild. of Paris, son
of Baron james, is like his late father. an
enthusiastic bibliophile.
w. Fl. Young, of Augusta, His, has the
oldest English Bible in America. 1t was
brought over in the Mayfower and was
made in l57s.
The sole heir to Mrs. Hetty Green's vast
wealth is a son, who was until recently a
! student in Dartmouth college. He will
inherit nearly $50,00O,OO0
John Russell Young, the well known
journalist and ex-minister to China, has
been appointed fourth vice president OF the
consolidated roads of the Philadelphia and
Reading system.
Baron R0thschild has added to his al
ready magnificent collection of butterflies
by the purchase of the well filled cabinets
of Baron Won Fielder, of Vienna, paying
IS, 900 for them.
Leroy Payne, of Chicago, leased lot of
land on Michigan avenue in that city about
eleven years ago for ninety-nine years at
an annual rental Of $500 He has re-
Gently sold his lease for 100000.
The "K' in jerome X. Jerome's name
stands for "Klapka." He is not yet thirty.
two years of age and has been in his time a
clerk, a schoolmaster, a shorthand writer,
reporter, an actor and journalist
came famous sixteen years ago by extract
ing fork from n mans stomach, is
jolly, fiorid faced old gentleman, who
ranks among the first OF his profession in
France.
Sir Robert Morier, Great Britain's en-
bassador TO Russia, is one Of the most pow
erfal personalities in the diplomatic serv-
ice. He is popularity supposed to have
been one of the causes that led to Bis
marck's dismissal by his royal master.
Professor Helm, of Zurich, says that the
most agreeable death is by falling. He has
talked with a great many people who have
escaped death by falling by a hairbreadth
only, and reports that those who have ex-
perienced such accidents suffer no pain
and no terror.
The Marquis of Dufferin, Britain's new
ambassador at Paris, has collection of
water colors painted by himself on view
there, and the marchioness lately charmed
everybody by her bright and spirited act
ing in "a Happy Pair at the Austrian
embassy in Rome.
Anton Jurictch, a peasant who still la
bors in the vineyards of Dreznica, in the
district of Mostar, in Herzegovina, has In
his possession documents which, together
with his personal experience, afford rea-
sonable ground, it is stated, for the belief
that he is 1870 years old.
Captain Charles Richardson, who at one
time, it is said, was the confidential secre-
tary of Boss Tweed, lives now in Coving-
ton, Ky. He is lightweight years old and
recently gave evidence Of his juveniiity of
spirit by taking unto himself blushing
bride of nineteen summers.
Mr. Edward Partridge, the grain
plunger" of the Chicago Produce exchange,
is a native of New York state, and was. not
many years ago, a dry goods merchant in
Buffalo. He is careless in his dress al
most to the point Of shabbiness, and has
dull looking but determined face.
Balfour, formerly the neatest and most
daintily dressed Of men, the very pink of
neatness, in fact, has become inconceivably
negligent in his personal attire, appearing
not only in the street, but also in the house
of commons, with muddy boots, turned up
trousers and badly brushed hat.
Alexander Hockaday, of Blue River
township, Ind, is 112 years old. He is the
father of twelve children, and his wife,
thirty years his junior, is still living. Mr..
Hockaday never took but one dose of med
icine in his life. He is hale and hearty,
and bids fair to live several years yet.