Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-06-12
THE LISTENER.

J. Pim, the English tennis champion, is an Irishman by birth.
 Krupr, in Essen, is the second richest man in Prussia having an annual income of over :, 1000, 900 marks.
 !. l.. Molloy, the song writer, is an Eng | fish barrister who divides his time between | his profession and music, which he consid- CTS a recreation.
 The shattered health and mental trouble of Lord Randolph Churchill will soon lead to the retirement from politics of that bril- | liant English statesman 1 President Cleveland almost invariably i bags a rheumatic attack when he goes off on d shooting trip, and so did General liar | rison when he used to go touring for ducks. Brother Sullivan is leader, Brother Mitch 1 ell plays the viola. and Brother Corbctt | plays the violin in TioGa Methodist Episco, | pal Sunday school, Phi!adtlphia-a strik- ing coincidence.
 Policeman Steele of Manchester, x. H., | weighs l5o pounds. During Il recent fire he carried down five fiji 2htS of stairs d sick | man who tipped the scales at 300. He was | loudly cheered by the crowd. Congressman Everett has been an en- thusiast for baseball these 20 years, and while he was the Adams academy head master he used to be on the grass in a broil- ing sun to watch the boys play game. Henry w. Grady, a son of the Georgia orat or, has been admitted to the bar at At lanta after having passed with credit were examination. lie resembles his father both in appearance and in mental epdow- mcnt.
 Dove, the Mannheim tailor whose bullet proof fabric is likely to make many others as well as himself wealthy, was so poor when he had his discovery completed that he had to borrow revolver to test the cloth.
 When Galusha A. Grow was vigorously supporting the emancipation proposition in the war congress, George Washington Mur- ray, who sits beside him in the present house. was barefooted slave boy on a South Carolina plantation.
 A. James Halfcrd. brother of ex-Presi- dent Harrisons former private secretary, is one of the United Press reporters in Wash ington. Fifteen years ago Mir. Ialford was one of the best known newspaper men in the west and a paragrapher of rare merit.
 Senator Hill takes all his meals in his room privately. He takes the same thing for breakfast and dnner-sirloin steak fried potatoes, coffee and bread. He never varies. He takes the same thing every day without change and reads his letters while he eats.
 Sir Charles Dilke who, with all his faults is one of the best informed men and ablest thinkers in England, says frankly that if the control of the sea were lost nothing could save England from invasion, "and once invaded England would be swept out of existence in a week."
 The venerable George w. Jones of Du- buque, la, ex-United States senator, now about 90 years of age, has struck financial luck at last after a long life of comparative poverty. It Is in the form of a quarter in terest in lead mine which is turning out 5000 pounds of ore day.
 Sir Howell Salmon has had an interesting career in the British navy. When 12 years old, he became a cadet, was made a com mander at the age of 23, post captain when 2S and has been on the admiral list for l5 years He is soon to become commander In chief at Portsmouth, England.
 Mir. Caffery of Louisiana is the fourth person to be elected to a term in the United States senate which will extend over into the twentieth century. Messrs. William Lindsay of Kentucky, John II. Gear of Iowa and William s. Martin of Virginia have also been chosen for the next long term.