Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-05-24
THE LISTENER.

Ex-Vice President Morton has The largest
poultry raising establishment in the United
J States.
Lord Wolseley is said to have written
n oNt of his memoirs of the Duke of Marl-
borough standing at desk in his dressing
gown before breakfast.
Abram Onderdonk, the oldest submarine
diver in America has pursued his peculiar
| calling for 81 of his SO years. He has ex-
plored sunken hulls in all parts of the world.
| Paderewski claims to be martyr to
| nervousness. He is said to wear his hair
SO long because his eyes are naturally
weak and frequent hair cutting makes
| them weaker.
Chin Wing Wee is the best educated Chi
naman on the Pacific coast. He speaks
| eight languages fluently, is a profound
scholar in Egyptology and is particularly
| clever as mathematician.
| Lieutenant Waeth of the German army,
! who intends to found Il vegetarian, anti
clothing colony on a south Pacific island,
+ has not eaten meat in 10 years. He neither
drinks alcoholic liquor nor smokes.
| Henry Scanlon of Carrollton, Pa, has
| been elected to the office of justice OF the
| peace for the tenth time. He is 76 years of
| age, and at the expiration of the present
| term he will have served so years as justice.
Joseph H. Choate is native of Salem,
| Mass, and CO years of age. He went to
| New York in 1856 and has since been mem
! Der of the law firm of which Mr.. Evarts is
| the nominal head, though practically re-
| tired from business.
John Taylor, pilot so years old, recently
| applied to the New York pilot commission
ers for reinsurance of his license. He has
To- I,.,1
| and hearty that one would not take him to
| be more than so years old.
John d. Rockefeller, the millionaire oil
| magnate, is one of the most dif1icultmen to
| obtain access to in New York. His days
are spent at the Standard Oil building at
the lower end of Broadway, but no crank
| ever succeeds in getting into that structure.
General Black of Illinois is considered by
a great many people the handsomest man
in the house, but opinion is divided as to
the ugliest A careful canvass on the lat
ter question showed close race between
Pendleton of Texas and McEttrick of Bos-
ton.
Ex-senator Thomas w. Palmer Of Mich-
gan, president of the Worlds fair commits
sion, was the first senator of the United
States to come out squarely for woman suf-
frage He delivered the first speech in the
senate in advocacy of unrestricted suffrage
for woman.
Congressman Tom johnson weighs 250
pounds and is terror to bicycle owners.
He broke down three bicycles and exhaust
ed an attendant in taking his first lesson III
riding, but before the lesson was over he
rode around the ring with the ease of
practiced bicyclist.
Sir Thomas Salter Payne, just knighted
by Queen Victoria, is only 81 He began
life as a mechanic in the great Birmingham
engineering firm of Tangye. Then he went
to India as the foreman of factory and
soon became superintendent of the arsenal
and public works of the ameer of Afghan
istan.
Senator Mitchell of Wisconsin left the
senate the other afternoon rs a storm was
coming up. He had not gone far before the
rain began to fall. The senator, who is
worth from s., OO0,00 to 100000, essayed
to raise his umbrella. He stopped in the
rain and arranged two broken ribs of the
umbrella before it could be spread to pro-
tect him.
The Blaines at Augusta.
AUGUSTA, Me-, May 24.-The Blaine
family arrived here for the summer.
Weather Forecast.
Showers; cooler; northwest winds.