Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-02-21
LISTERS AND ARCTICS.

| Senator Perkins of California was a
| whale fisher in his early days before he
| went to California.
| Wayne MacNeagh, ambassador to Italy,
| carried with him a new bust of George
| Washington for the legation at Rome.
Sherman, while listening to debate in the
senate. has a way of holding the back of
| his head in his right hand, his arm twisted
hack over his shoulder.
Ex-Governor Russell of Massachusetts
| will not use horse that Is less than years
Id The youngest he now has is "A, and
| TWO others are not less than p,
Admiral Benham is a son Of Commodore
Benham. who had family mansion on
Staten Island, the admiral birthplace. His
son Harry is a lieutenant in the navy.
John w Rocker of Evansville, Ind,
| claims 10 have the first SO greenback issued
| 10y the United States government. He
states that il is marked series A, No /.
Alpheus Felch of Ann Arbor, Mich, who
| is 90 years of age, is the oldest ex-governor
OF Michigan now living. He is in the best
of health and in possession of all his facul-
| ties.
George W. Childs always replied to let
tiers, invariably thanked men who made
| kind mention of him, never forgot a favor
| quaintances.
John Chatterton, the tenor who under
| the name of Signor Perugini married Lillian
| Russell, the operetta star, is said to have
taken the prize at the original baby show
organized by Barnum in New York.
DR.. William Moor of New York, the
discoverer of the new antidote for NOR
phine, is 2s years old, with black mustache
and nervous manner. He is an Austrian
by birth and has been in practice only three
years.
c. P. Huntington's new stone palace still
| drags along in an unfinished state at Fifth
| avenue and Fifty-seventh street, New York
| II is said he is superstitious and holds to
| the ancient theory that it is sure death for
an old man to move into new house.
General Lew Wallace is an expert pistol
| shot having learned the art at the time the
notorious southwestern desperate, Billy
| the Kid" escaped from prison and an
nounced the intention of killing Wallace,
who was then governor of New Mexico.
Ferdinand Holtzenland, a German vet
| eran of Reading, Pa. has tasted no water
for 10 years. Invalided by wounds in the
war, his physician advised him to drink
nothing but milk and coffee. This was in
| 1881, and he has religiously followed his
| lOCLOE duNlCc
| Senator Reagan used to tear paper into
long. narrow slips, like lamplighters. and
| then tear these into little squares. The floor
about him used to be covered with bits of
paper like a snowdrift, and he had to keep
his stationery locked in his desk to avoid
| destroying all of it.
Mr. George W. Childs Drexel, who has
assumed the editorship OF The Public Led
ger of Philadelphia, is a man OF medium
| height, with a smooth shaven face and the
manners of Philadelphia club man. He
dresses with great nicely and is a member
Of nearly all the larger social organizations
Senator Hill has a style in debate that
catches the galleries every time. He talks
straight to the mark and wastes no words
He poses like fighting cock that delights
| in battle and never lets his antagonist take
him unawares, but strikes back with an
airy intrepidity and confidence that make
him seem to be constantly getting the bet
ter of the argument.