Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1893-10-27
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Silas G. Herring. the safe man, began
clerking in Albany at II in homespun
suit.
Oscar Wilde is reported to have grown
very big and fat and untidy as to appear
ance, ~ ..e14
William B. Hornblower says that he
owes his success in life to his habit Of TAX
ing advantage Of every opportunity that
offered. ~ q.
Succi, the faster, is insane and is now In
an asylum near Paris. His delusion has
taken the form of a belief that he is Caesar
and Napoleon in one.
Joseph Pulitzer has purchased the Cum
n1ngham estate on Bay Shore harbor,
Mount Desert, containing seven acres, and
will build handsome cottage on it.
Mr.. Eugene Higgins is the richest bach
elor In New York. He is said to be worth
$2O,OOO,0O0, and Ward McAllister says he is
probably the most luxurious unmarried
man in America.
Alvinza Haywood, the retired San Fran
cisco millionaire, was in youth farmers
bound boy in northern New York and
received. at 81, 500 and freedom suit"
as his start in life. -
The sole survivor of General Fremont's
famous exploring battalion is General w,
r. Swasey, who was a boy clerk at Suffers
Fort in 1s45, and was the youngest officer
on General Fremont's staff.
NJ Vuillod, the cannon man." who
gained celebrity in Paris and elsewhere bv
catching cannon. balls as they were dis
charged at him from large gun, is one of
the deputies elected to the new chamber. 81
Daniel de Foes great-great- grandson has
been discovered on the roll OF. the Chelms-
ford union in Essex as an outdoor pauper.
He is 10 years old, has fits, is partly para
lyzed and has anincome of76 cents weekly.
Ex-Comptroller A. Barton Hepburn, one
of the ablest financiers of the country, was
barefooted country boy in the Adiron--
dacks, who gained little education by
privation and hardship, and began life as u
teacher.
Captain Francis Martin of Detroit is toe
Oldest commissioned officer in the United
States revenue marine service. He is in
his ninety-fourth year, and as there is no
retired list in the service is still on the ac-
tive list. ~"
DR.. Frederick Andres of Mitchell, S. D.,
claims to be the first authorized pract' :
CiOltcI VI uuculCiue llOU Ouly Ill OuDuUCS,
Ia, but also in the immense region west Of
the Mississippi river to the Pacific and
north of the Missouri river
Judge Robert S. He11lin of Alabama, who
served in the Forty fourth and Forty fifth
congresses, boasts that his expenses during
the ID months of his two terms were not
over $50 a month, and that he returned to
his home with $500 out of his two years.
salary.
The richest man in the island of St.
Christopher is Joaquin Farara, who went
there barefooted Portuguese boy of 16
and began working for shilling a day.
Now he is 81 years old and owns 81 ,00o, 900
worth of real estate on the island. It is said
that he can neither read nor write.
Lord Rothschild sets an example to less
fortunate fDanciers in business regularity.
He most frequently travels to town by the
train, leaving 'rring at s:43 in the morning,
is at Euston at 9:35, ard thus reaches his
desk comfortably &. 10. He is therefore
breakfasting quite as early as the majority
of his clerks.