Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1893-11-23
THE mAfl Asour TOWN.

Mayor Pro TEN Swift Of Chicago il a
manufactures Of axle grease
Lord Colin Campbell recently turned up
in Bombay as counselor employed to de-
| fend 20 Mohaninirdans implicated in the
great riots
] Mr.. Gladstone mas no idea that he has ap-
preached the age when he should retire
from active life. His plans are laidas lib
orally as If he were d youth Of 3d.
Governor Fleet Greenhalge of Massachu-
setts was born in England The old Bay
State has never before elected d foreign
born citizen to her chief executive chair
John Hooker, husband OF Isabella Beech
er Hooker Csister of the late Henry Ward
Beecher), has resigned the position Of re-
porter of the supreme court of Connecticut.
which he had held for36 years.
Lord Rosebery remarked ut recent din
ner that wherever in the world there il
good thing there would be found Il 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 il 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 Cotteret, d scion Of half the
great families Of New York. member OF
the Knickerbocker club, an approved ex-
ponent of the most fashionable precepts of
the day, has opened q new flower shop on
Fifth avenue #.Na
Representative Bryan of Nebraska has
taken rank faster han amy other new mem
Der of the house. lie Is always ready. His
use of books il that of a y-ell trained and
practiced lawyer. who can hold his informa-
tion well In hand.
Secretary Jarug of the Corean legation at
Washington il an ardent student OF the
English language. He,takes bis lessons in
the most practical way, learning about
things he has to handle each day in the af-
fairs Of the household. iA Ar 1N4
Van Roberts, hotel keeper at Rush
Hill. Mo-, has fallen heir to S60O, 600, left
him by John Bennett, who died ut Las We
gas, N. NJ. Roberts saved Bennett from
drowning In tile Sagamon river. near Deca-
tur, Ills, 20 years ago. l g3m
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 itp
f. Marion Crawford. in a recent article
on the pope, remarks that in the matter on
physique there is close resemblance be-
tween Leo XIII, President Lincoln and Mr..
Gladstone-lean, sound mind, of a bony
constitution, indomitable vitality, large
skull, high cheekbones and energetic jaws.
The biggest man in Washington is Cap
tain Maddox. The pointer flies round to
4S0 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 Vasilievich Bervy, the latest addi-
tion to the henumber of Russian political refu-
gees in London, is remarkable man. He
IS GA years old, and 26 have been spent iii
exile and imprisonment He has been In
side no less than 80 prisons and yet has
committed no act humanity or civilization
can regard as o crime.