Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-12-05
THE INoUlslToR.

David Siutou is the richest man in Gin
cinnati His wealth is estimated at from
$1O,OO0, 900 to 81, 100000.
The late Marshal Mac Mahon made the
acquaintance of his wife by saving her from
a fire at the risk of his own life.
Milton II. Smith, president of the Louis
vile and Nashville, was at one time a
Waterman at a railroad crossing.
Professor Huxley now lives in Sussex.
England, in a house which he calls Ho-
deslea, which curious name is said to be the
ancient form of his own surname.
First Auditor Baldwin smokes corncob
pipes. No matter what time of day you
visit his room in the treasury department
at Washington you will find him smoking
Alex Hockaday recently celebrated on
his farm in Harrison county, Ind, what he
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 fight
ing" Baptist family He is not and never
pretended to be an orator, but he speaks
with great force and deliberation, and as
lawyer ranks with the best ct the Boston
bar.
Stephen Stambulof, 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
Of character.
Paul Bennevue is a physical wreck in
New Hampshire poorhouse. He has been
a diplomat, editor, publisher, politician,
orator and banker. He began his public
life in France rs secretary to Alexander
Dumas the elder.
The first governor of California, Peter B.
Burnett, celebrated his eighty-sixth birth
day recently at his home in San Francisco
He went to California several years before
the gold fever broke out, when San Fran
cisco was little town of 800 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 1t does his
soul good just to walk around Independ-
ence hall 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 a cousin of Professor S F. 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 gen
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
struction hands on an Iowa line. He was
then boy of II, and at IS he was station
agent, with a salary of eS5 a month.
Major II. N. Clothier of whatcom, Or.
has hickory cane cut at Plymouth Rock
Massachusetts,, in 1921, by Nathaniel Pierce
who came over in the Mayfower. The cant
has been passed down to the eldest son o.
daughter for many generations, and cam,
to Major Clothier from his grandmother
Sarah Mason, who made the 1.7OO pounC
cheese which was given to President Jeffer