Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-04-12
PERSONAL AND lMpERsoNAL.

Although Thomas Bailey Aldrich is nearly sixty. his easy-gofng way ot life has kept him youthful and he looks younger than he is His hair is slight ly tinged with gray, but his face is ruddy and fresh and his voice is genial and "as balmy as one of his own stories"
 The shah of Persia, accompanied by his favorite son, Prince Massud Mizza, will leave home early in June and go to London via St. Petersburg and Berlin. It is generally understood that the threat of visit from the shah makes every body about the royal house hold uneasy.
 Jose Maria de Heredia recently elected a member of the French academy, is not mulatto as has been widely published. The error is due to confounding him with Leverians Heredia, who was g1inister of public works in France some years ago. The latter is mulatto who was adopted when child by member of the Heredia family
 John de Haven was a wealthy Frenehman, who came to this coantry before the revolutionary war, and loaned the government around sum of money when the struggle began. The amount is stated at $400. 00Q, aud the thirty living heirs scattered through three or four counties of Pennsylvania are willing now to accept s6S800, 900 and call it square.
 One of the popular English authors of 6n aax ol4 kVaa arxafsi if1lfa fad from work by lady who lived next door and strummed HandeFs Mes siah.n His idea of the invioiabiiity of an Englishmsn's house did not allow him to send in any massage, and he was at his wits end till he saw in a daily paper that steala whistles could be bought to fit on to kettle spouts He provided himself with one, and put the kettle on the fire in the room near est the singer. As soon as the whistle began, he went out. Of course the bottom came off the kettle but it cost little to solder it on again, and after two or three solderings the lady took the hint.
 Jacob Tome, of Port Deposit, Md, whose bundle of s60, 900 was carelessly tossed about railway car the ot}fer day, is perhaps the only millionaire eastern shoreman. He began with nothing of material wealth. ada scantY education. and has been reputed a mil lonaire for more than twenty years. He built costly home at Port Deposit, but thriftily placed it where he could make his bank part of the structure The site was necessarily in the narroT Susquehanna valley, where the busi- and the spring floods invade MT. Tome's fine house as they do the dwellings of his neighbors. Immediately behind the house, so close that one may al most look down it's chimneys. rises 0 terraced hill some hundred feet high.
 John Harris, of Pennsylvania, be- 1 longed to a class of men that this coun- 1 try produced in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and perhaps in the earlier years of the nineteenth, but class that has received few recruits in the last seventy five years Like the picturesque and strenuous Augustine Herman, hero of New York city and the Delaware peninsula, Harris estab- lished himself in the wilderness and became man of wealth, power and high consideration through trade with the Indians. Harris Ferry became Harrisburg and the capital of Pennsyl- vania Harris son John took up the business where his father left it, and in the sons day letter to ''the care of John Harris, Harris Ferry. North America, ; reached its destination from any part of the world The man who surveyed the town that has grown into the capital city was the second Harris son-in-law. William Maclay, the sena- tor from Pennsylvania who conceived so low an opinion of Gen. Washington.
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