Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-02-17
MIGHTY NAN.

5 chinese banker, Han Quay, is staae1
4 20 be worth the almost uncomfortable s,,.,,
of 81 ,750, COZ, 600. !. -. s SIS
President Diaz is said to own shnres II,
every railroad, telegraph, telephone and
electric light company ia Mexico.
Governor Hogg of Texas is i. man Of good
physical proportions. He is only 80 wears
OF age, but he weighs s75 pounds.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge was as
bright and witty as ever on his list birth
day, which occurred not long ago.
NJ. Stambuloff, prime minister Of Bull
garia, is crack shot with stones and rare
~ fails to hit a moving object at a distance
of over SO yards.
EdWln could has a collection of 10000
newspaper clippings on the death of his
father, which, combined, constitute an obit-
uary six miles long,
John D. Rockefeller. the Standard Oil
magnate, is about Sc years of age. # he
lives until 70, his wealth, it is estimated
will amount to nearly s30o,COO,OO0.
The cheapest dress made by Worth, the
Partisan man milliner, even if of cotton,
does not cost less than $50, and this he
calls his ra1vrette costumen-the poor
girls dress. r -
Mr.. John Lister of Passaic Falls, N, j..
figures as the oldest active bicycler in the
country. He is over 60, a veteran of the
war and once rode $50 miles on his machine
in two days.
One of the Oldest of British noblemen is
the Duke of northumberland, who is nearly
49, lie has been a member of five cabinets
and sat in parliament for 20 years before he
succeeded to his title
Ex-Speakcr Reed is reputed to earn S.
600 a year by his pen. 1t is this income
that insures him the comforts and luxuries
of life, for he has no other income besides
his salary as congressman.
Ex-senator Ingalls, has discarded the
SLOUGH hat for a somewhat antique plug.
the flaming red necktie has been replaced
by one of decorous black, and hanging
loosely about his sinewy form is Il cape
| ulster '
The chief dissipation of the young Earl of
Craven, who is to marry the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley Martin of New York,
is said to be that of smoking tiny cigarettes
in an amber holder studded with dia,
monds.
Lieutenant Pcary is credited with the
ieeiinS tlittt uo relleI expedition TO BRING
him back from Greenland was at all neces-
sary, and he gives it out distinctly that Re
does not want any sent for him the next
time he goes to the arctic regions.
The Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker of London
has come out On a platform akin to spirit
| Ealisnl, or divine spiritu:.lism, as he calls
it, lie prays TO become the medium of
| messages about business, politics, ETC., that
shall be of real service to the world .
General Trochu's opinion of Prince Bis
| marck is that he might have become
great man had he not become only a great
Prussian. Bismarck's estimate of Trochu
is now a MAJ ter of history "He knew
| enough to know that he didn't amount to
| much"
Mr.. Gladstone, within the most exclusive
! official circles in the English governme IT,
is known as plain Mr.. G." Thus John
| Morley will tell Sir William H;,rcourt
what Mr. c. thinks about it. And it's
generally understood that what ''IMr G."
says goes.
NJ. Clemenceau is one of the few men who
cannot be interviewed. When reporter
goes to see him and asks, What do you
think of. such and such things?" NJ Glenn
| cnceau always answers, LET me hear what
Tou think first" And the conversation
usually stops there.