The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1893-03-09
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL

Baron Nathaniel Rothschild, Of vi.
emma, is about to start on Q trip to AT.
rica to last six monthA He has char.
tered q steamer for the use Of himself
and party where possible. The baron
Is an excellent amateur photographer
and proposes to bring back number
Of photographs. He also expects to 60
on many exiting hunting expeditions.
MIR. Edmunds, of Vermont, IL said
to have been almost the only exception
to the rule that the supreme court prac-
tice Of a lawyer soon dwindles after he
becomes United States senator. Sem
ators Teller, Carpenter, Morgan and
others found that their clients dropped
off one by one after senate cares began
to press Senators Mitchell and Dolph,
however, still have good many cases
"A New York artist has spent two
summers among the Great Smoky
mountains Of Tennessee, because, he
says, he gets the same kind of subjects
there that the French painters find
around Barbizon-the same rudeness of
implements, the same simplicity Of
habitations; even the same blue cloth
ing. 81 don't see why SO many of our
fellows go to France" said he, 'for we
have everything that we can want in
this country"
"A manager in New York-not the
man one would have expected to say it,
either-declares that farce comedies
are working general injury to theat-
rical interests: ITO the legitimate thea
ters, because they are taking people
away from them; to the public, because
they are lowering the standards of
taste; to the variety shows, because
they are being constantly recruited
from them, and to the actors, as class,
because they induce man to give up
honest work and play at the gallery"
"A Brooklyn lady who is spending
the winter in Paris with her two young
daughters, while her husbands bust.
ness compels him to stay at home, be-
ing anxious to have her husband Join
his family, said to her eldest daughter
one day in presence of her youngest, q
six-year-old: II wish your papa could
be appointed as minister to some court
in Europe" Whereupon the young
but discriminating miss quickly re-
sponded: "Why, mamma, you must be
crazy, papa couldn't preach good scr.
mon."
One of the most heroic of New
York's workers is Marvin Clark, the
blind newspaper man, well known by
his specials for the daily papers and
other work. 1t is now nearly five years
since he lost his sight, after journal
istic career that had extended over a
period of thirty years. As soon as 1t
was decided that he was hopelessly
blind he taught himself the use of the
and by having the papers
read to him daily, manages to keep his
place as worker in his profession. He
IS steadily cheerful and accomplishing,
and does excellent work.
AT banquet of the Veteran Ma
sonic association in Washington the
other night Senator Dolph, Of Oregon,
sketched the introduction
IT masonry into Oregon. away back
n the '40s," said the senator, Capt
Iohn Kellogg crossed the plains from
carrying with him the char
er Of the first lodge Of Oregon. II
ook him many months to get to the
tate, and he had to undergo many
lardships, but he clung to the charter.
md, although nearly all his goods were
ost and many times he was in danger
+ losing his life, when he arrived at
'regon City the little scroll was with
Lim."
Sometimes when q man tries to be
'ood he never gets credit for it One
itizen Of New York bought tickets for
big ball few nights ago, and when
he people in the Office heard of it they
witted him and said: you'll be
round here tomorrow with your head
one up in a wet towel, and won't be
ood for anything all day." Said hes
l resolved to give them surprise I
'ent to the ball and didn't drink
rop Of anything but water, went home
3 straight as a string, and in the morn
,g woke up with the nastiest kind Of
bilious headache. But of course they
'ouldn't allow that it was anything
ut champagne. So far as peoples
bod opinion is concerned, it doesn't
~ very well to be good, does it?"