Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-12-11
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David sintou Is the richest man IN Gin
einnasi His wealth is estimated at from
on, go 900 to 81. 5000
The late Marshal MacMahon made the
acquaintance Of his wife by saving her from
a fire q. the risk Of his Own life
Milton Il. smith, president Of the Louis
vile and Nashville, was al one time
Waterman at railroad crossing.
Professor Huxley now lives in Sussex.
England. in a house which he calls Ho-
3eslea, which curious name Is said TO be the
anciens form Of his own surname.
First Auditor Baldwin smokes eorncob
pipes. No matter what time Of day you
sisit his room Ia the treasury department
At Washington you will find him smoking,
Alex Hoekaday recently celebrated on
his farm in Harrison county, Ind. what be
swears TO have been his one hundred and
fourteenth birthday. He has voted at every
presidential election in this century.
Attorney General Olney comes Of a fight
ingn Baptist family. He is not and never
pretended TO be an orator, but he speaks
with great force and deiiheration, and as
lawyer ranks with the best at the Boston
bar
Stephen Stambuioff. Bulgaria's prime
minister, was educated in Russia and ex-
lied because of his dangerous intelligence.
He Is short in stature, but very vigorous
physically and mentally. with strong force
II character.
Paul Benneyue is a physical wreck in
New Hampshire poorhouse. He has been
diplomat, editor, publisher. politician.
orator and banker He hegan his public
life In France as secretary to Alexander
Dumas the elder.
The first governor of California, Peter FL.
Burnett. celebrated his eighty-sixth birth
day recently at his home in san Francisco.
He went TO California several years before
she gold fever broke out, when San Fran
cisco was little town of ! 500 inhabitants.
A Philadelphia paper credits ex-senator
Edmunds with regarding Philadelphia as
the most patriotic and American of Ameri-
can cities, and with saying that it does his
soul good just to walk around lndepend-
ence hail and get glimpse Of the old Lib
erty bell.
Joseph W. Morse, who was one OF the
originators of the system OF printing the
atrical posters from wooden blocks, and
who was cousin of Professor 5. 4. b.
Morse Of telegraph fame, celebrated his
eighty sixth birthday at his home in New
York recently.
John Lee Carroll ex-governor of Mary
land, is a most aristocratic looking old gem
tleman and belongs to one of the finest of
the Maryland families. He is the grand
nephew of the first governor Of Maryland
and the great-grandnephew OF the first
Catholic archbishop of Baltimore.
Marvin Hughitt, who controls the vast
Chicago and Northwestern railway system,
with its 10000 miles of track. began his
railway career by carrying water to CON
straction hands on an Iowa line. He was
then boy of IA, and at TO he was station
agent, with salary of S35 IA month.
Major NJ. NJ Clothier of Whatcom, Or,
has a hickory cane cut at Plymouth Rock,
Massachusetts, in 1921, by Nathaniel Pierce,
who came over in the Mayfiower. The cane
has been passed down to the eldest son or
daughter for many generations, and came
to Major Clothier from his grandmother,
Sarah Mason, who made the l.10o pound
cheese which was given to President Jeffer-