Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-22
THE MAN ABOUT TOWN.

Mayor Pro Tenn Swift OF Chicago Is a
manufacturer of axle grease.
Lord Colin Campbell recently turned up
in Bombay as counselor employed to de
fend 20 Mohammedans implicated in the
great riots
Mr.. Gladstone has no idea that he has APP
preached the age when he should retire
from active life. His plans are laid as lib
orally as if he were youth of so.
Governor Elect Greenhalge of Massachu-
sets was born in England. The old Bay
State has never before elected a foreign
born citizen to her chief executive chair.
John Hooker, husband of Isabella Beech
er Hooker (sister Of the late Henry Ward
Beecher), has resigned the position Of re-
porter of the supreme court of Connecticut,
which he had held for SO years.
Lord Rosebery remarked at recent din
ner that wherever in the world there is a
good thing there would be found Scotch
man sitting by it. Even the canny lad that
sits by himself will confirm this.
A Boston reporter asked Colonel Inger-
soil the other day whether it is true that he
now believes in immortality, and was told,
Love was the first to dream of immortal
ity, and as long as we love we shall hope"
Rawlins Cottenet, a scion Of half the
great families of New York, a member Of
the Knickerbocker club, an approved ex-
ponent Of the most fashionable precepts of
the day, has opened a new flower shop on
| Fifth avenue.
Representative Bryan of Nebraska has
| taken rank faster than any other new men,
Der Of the house. He is always ready. His
use Of books is that Of we'll trained and
practioed lawyer, who can hold his informa-
ton well in hand.
Secretary Jarng Of the Corean legation at
Washington Is an ardent student of the
| English language He takes his lessons In
the most practical way, learning about
things he has to handle each day in the af-
| fairs Of the household.
Van Roberts. hotel keeper at Rush
Hill, No, has fallen heir to s6oo, 900. left
him by John Bennett, who died at Las We
drowning In the Sagamon river, near Deca-
tur. Ills, 20 years ago.
| T. c. B. Howard, commander of Mary
| lands oyster navy, conceals beneath his
triple initials the names Thomas Contee
Bowie, and comes Of three or four famous
Maryland families who have given to the
state judges and senators.
A hitherto unfamiliar remark Of Abra-
| ham Lincoln, and which Is good enough to
| go into the schoolbooks, is this one, which
Senator Palmer of Illinois says Lincoln
made to him: II have simply tried to do
my duty every day, hoping that when to
morrow came would be equal TO it."
F. Marion Crawford, in a recent article
on the pope, remarks that in the matter OF
physique there is q close resemblance be
tween Leo XIII, President Lincoln and Mr..
Gladstone-lean, sound mind, of a bony
constitution, indomitable vitality, largs
skull, high cheekbones and energetic jaws.
The biggest man in Washington is Cap
tain Maddox. The pointer flies round to
$50 pounds when this gentleman steps on
the platform and drops penny in the slot.
The southern senators and representatives
all know Captain Maddox. They credit
him with being the best poker player in
| Washington.
Vastly Vasilievieh Berry, the latest addi-
| ton to the number OF Russian political refu.
| gees In London, is q remarkable man. He
is o. years old, and % have been spent in
exile and imprisonment. He has been in
side no less than 50 prisons and yet has
committed no act humanity or civilization
can regard as a crime.