Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-14
THE OBSERVER.

Sir Edwin Arnold is said to have the best | manners of any man in London. Nothing, it is said, gives Comptroller | Eckels 90 much enjoyment as the reading of financial books full of dry statistics. Justice Field was alcalde, or mayor, of the town of Marysville, in soutbar:i Cali | fornia, when that t"-ri-Ury was a part of Mexico.
 MT. William Durant has been treasurer | 0f the Boston Transcript for 60 years. Al though in his seventy-eighth year, he is at his desk every day.
 Yang Yu, the Chinese minister at Wash ington, is cutting very wide swath. His
 costume, carriage and mansion outshine
 those of any other diplomat | President Diaz of Mexico is low of stat
 ire, small head, retreating forehead; short, | -risp hair; high cheek bones and sallow face. His manner however, is fascination itself. J. s. T. Stranahan of Brooklyn, the only living American who has a public monu-
 ment of himself, drives out every pleasant
 afternoon to Prospect park and takes look
 at his statue
 Though Stonewall Jackson was man of deep religious feeling, he invariably fell asleep when in church. He was a dyspep- l tic in his youth, and for a year lived on stale bread and DutteTnlIk. Senator Vance is great favorite at Washington as we'll as in his own state
 The south has produced few better stump speakers, and like Lincoln he has at his
 tongues end fund of good stories to in
 terest his audience.
 The Liberal whip. MT. Marjoribanks- pronounced Marsh hbanks''-who has be come Lord Tweedmouth through the death of his father. married. in 1873, Lady Fanny Spencer Churchill, a sister of Lord Randolph Churchill.
 Lafe Pence, the popular Colorado Pop
 ulist member who had such a fiamboyant
 time of it in the house recently, is native
 of Indiana and lived in that state till 1879, when he went west. He stopped for cou- pie of years in Kansas on his way. The late Hans von Bulow had wonder ful memory. He once committed to mem ory on d railway train three of Sterndale Bennett's compositions which he had never seen before and played them without notes at concert three hours afterward. Cal Brice is the Mark Tapley of the sen ate. He is never disturbed by anything and is always looking into a rosy future He is like a wholesome boy in the irrepress- ible buoyancy of his spirits. "I do not know l what it means to worry," he said once to German.
 Jerry Simpson was asked if he would
 have senators elected by the people, and he replied: "Oh, no. 1 would abolish the sen-
 ate, and then there would be no senators Personally they are the best fellows in the
 world. but a senate is contrary to the spirit of republican form of government" Ex-Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania has
 accepted election as member of the coun-
 cil of his town of Bellefonte After the late William Bigler had been governor of the
 state and United States senator he became
 school director in his town and attended
 10 the business of the office with enthusi- asm.
 When Galusha A. Grow took his seat in the house, he found there only two mem bers
 with whom he had served before-Holman
 of Indiana and Sickles of New York-and
 only one man in either senate or house who
 was serving when his first term began in l lS51-Senator Harris, who was then in the l house.