Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-23
took the highest honors both in classics and mathematics.

took the highest honors both in classics and mathematics.
 Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, NJ. P, P. C., to give him his full name and titles. is the fourth son of the late Sir John Gladstone. In 1884, when only twenty-five years old, MT. Gladstone entered parliament, ever since which he has been q member of the house of commons. He was made prime minis ter in 1868, and remained in power six years. Last summer he took the office for the fourth time, and now the sturdy old man of eightythree is at the head of England's cabinet.
 MT. Gladstone lives in Hawarden castle, which means "the hill fort on the projecting ridge" That at least was the meaning of the original British name, Y Garthddin, which in Saxon became IIaordine, and in Welsh, Penar- lag. But there are two castles of that name, and Mir. Gladstone occupies the modern one, which is only hundred and forty years old at the most. The old and new, however, face each other one, a massive ruin occupied by bats and owls and memories of the past, and the other the residence of England's premier. William the Conqueror, when he came to England, found the old castle occupied by Edwin of Mercia, and its history goes back to the first or second Edward. Mir Gladstone, how ever, does not keep this historical ruin to himself, but admits anybody to the park. He only requests visitors, says a writer, to keep to the gravel walks, and refrain from writing their names on the walls of the old castle.
 When relieved from the affairs of state, Mir. Gladstone finds no pleasure so great as his home life at Hawarden. There his family are gathered together, and the great man romps and plays with his grandchildren as though he never knew what it was to be blamed for everything that went wrong in all Great Britain and her colonies. MT. Gladstone is wonderful scholar, q busy writer and speaker, but the little Gladstone children know him best as a rood, kind hearted grandfather who is fond of fun. He, too, would prefer to enjoy their company rather than to be surrounded by Englands great men at an all-night session of parliament His other recreations are walking, and this is really very funny-chopping down trees. Our great George Wash
 
 | fondness in his youth, but by the time he became president he had probably | outgrown such fancies. MT. Gladstone, however, is an expert woodman, and | though he doesn't destroy valuable | cherry trees, he goes out with his ax | and takes the keenest pleasure in fell ing trees in Hawarden park. A visitor | to his castle one day noticed an ax be hind the door in the great hall, where | it had been left by the statesman after one of his chopping expeditions. A cu- rious ornament for such place it seems. It may be out of compliment to \ the boy George Washington and his hatchet that the Grand Old Man" pre- fers to use an American ax.
 | There are few men that have such a \ memory as that which MT. Gladstone is ! said to possess. It has been stated that he can go at once to his library, and amid the 10000 books there find in a moment the volume he desires As for | quotations from the classics, he knows just where they are to be found, and | any number of other wonderful things are related of him.
 It is truly great thing to be a scholar of this advanced age, it Is fame to be a premier of England, and pleas ant to be the ''Grand Old Man" of his country. But far more impressive dc these honors seem when we think ot him as loving man and father, and see him with his little grandchildren on his knee.-Harpers' Young People
 In the Same Language.
 Many great men have written illeg. ibly, and it was suspected that this was the reason that Judge Briefly cultivated a hopelessly bad handwriting.
 A hint that ought to have good eff feet was given the judge by a client who called and found that the lawyer had left a note for him.
 The client sat down and studied over the note for awhile. He could make nothing out of the nasty scrawl Then he wrote beneath it four or five lines that looked as if they might have been meant for writing, followed by this sentence in plain hand:
 ' 'HThiS is in reD1v to vOurS of the 18th ?