Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-03-01
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Probably the Oldest postmaster in
the land is Roswell Beardsley of North
Lansing. n. 7. He was appointed in
1928, during the administration of John
Quincy Adams and was then only a
youth of 10 years.
--Zola has quite taste for collecting
curious furniture, rare books, and funny
specimens bric-a-brac. One would i'm.
agine that he has sufficient funny brio.
a-brac in his novels without having it
In his home surroundings.
Judge Struve, of Seattle. ten months
ago lost his voice, and has been travel.
ing over the country seeking relief
After spending five thousand dollars
and receiving no benefit he gave up
in despair. One morning recently he
woke up with his voice as good as ever.
Rev. Tunis g. Campbell, the coll
ored Methodist minister who died at
Aston, Mass. a few days ago, was
made military governor of the Sea is
lands of Georgia by President Lincoln
just after the fall of Charleston, and
there organized schools and govern
ment- He was a native of New Jer-
sey.
REV. Robert Collyer, of the Church
OF the Messiah, in New York, had fin
ished his sermon the other Sunday. He
announced the hymn and said in his
characteristic manner: "Sing better
than you did the last hymn, if you can. "
Then he noticed startled expression
among the members of the choir, and
added: 81 mean the congregation.
Caleb Foote, who is within two
months Oh Of =,
ably the oldest newspaper man in the
country in active service. For forty
nine years he has been editor of the
Salem (Mass.) Gazette, and for long
time he was proprietor of that paper.
His entire professional life, except
seven months passed in Europe, has
been devoted to the Gazette.
The whole family of the brilliant
writer, Tolstoi, are working hard to
relieve the furnishing population. The
count himself, with his two daughters,
are at work among the peasants in the
government in Rasan; Nine. Tolstoi is
in Moscow making collections, and two
of his sons have enlisted themselves in
the services of the society of the Red
Cross, which was officially appointed
by the government to work at the dis.
tribution of charity among the hungry.
N. Y. Sun.
The princess of Wales father, King
Christian of Denmark, is now seventy
three years old. At one time, before
he came to the throne, he was obliged
to give drawing lessons in order to sup
port his family, and the princess of
Wales used to make her old dresses
over and over again, with excellent
taste, it is said. The kings title is
Christian ~, and his wife, Queen
Louise, is a charming and accomplished
woman, who excels as a musician.
Thousands of his acquaintance
envied Herr Sommerfield, the Berlin
banker. Anything that money could
procure he had, and the best of every
thing was at his command. A Partisan
tailor made his clothes, frequently Wis
iting the Prussian capital to take his
measure, with hundreds of cloth sam
pies; his mutton came from Wales, and
his beef from Scotland; he had two dis
tinct kitchens in his residence, one con-
troled by French cook, the other by
an Englishman. In every respect his
personal outlay was princely; yet he
was an unhappy man, and a short time
Ngo he closed his career by suicide.