Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-01-17
HE LISTENER.

John Goodbaby is a resident of Orono,
Ne.
Prince Bismarck is an ardent admirer of
everything English.
President Dole of Hawaii has as remark
able beard as Senator PETER.
Mr. Gladstone is said to take sherry and
egg as his congressional tea"
Baron Stackelberg, the Partisan million
aire, owns the island of Worms.
Rothschild requires of his cook a differ
ent kind Of soup for every day in the year.
Stephen ]. Field is the oldest member of
the United States supreme court. His age
is a.
Senator Hunton Of Virginia is now In his
seventy-second year, but is a strong and ac-
tive man.
John Patrick Hopkins, the new mayor of
Chicago, is said to be the handsomest chief
executive officer that the Windy City ever
has had.
The name most whispered now as the
strongest candidate for pope to succeed
Leo XIII is Mgr. Dominica Jacobni, the
papal nuncio in Lisbon.
Richard McGriff of Deerfield and John
McGriff of Geneva, Ind, claim to be the
oldest pair of twins in the country They
are in their ninetieth year.
Mgr. Satolli does not credit the Spanish
proverb that says bad luck GENES with
birds. He has feathered songsters in every
part of his Washington home.
General B. E. Cook of Northampton,
Mass, has kept jewelry store on the same
spot in that city for over 66 years His nine
tieth birthday, which occurred recently,
was made the occasion of dinner from fell
low townsmen.
Alfred Pinchot is said to be the first
American to graduate from a school of for
estry and take up forestry as a profession
He is the consulting forester on the estate
Of George w. Vanderbilt, in the North
Carolina mountains.
Senator Isham G. Harris of Tennessee
told friend the other day that he had new
er taken much delight in public life and
would much prefer to follow his profession
of the law. Nearly all of his life has been
spent in the public service.
There are two men in congress who never
carry an umbrella. These are Congressman
Kilgore Of Texas and Senator Cockrell of
Missouri. No matter what the weather,
whether it be snow or rain, these men do
not take enough account of the storm to
carry an umbrella.
Patient old Billy McGarrahan still sits
just outside the gHtes of congress waiting
for his famous claim to be put through He
is not discouraged yet and is back in his
old haunts as cheerful and sunny and SAN
guine as the first day he appeared in the
lobby, some 80 years ago.
Labouchere, the English Radical, is
man of the world-keen. unbelieving, hard
as nails, a mOcker at everything, including
himself, a 'flaneur' of the "flaneurs," a
bOuleyardier of the boulevardiers-wit a
sauntering gait, a slow, drawing and wea-
ried voice and an eternal cigarette
George Stock, a member of the big furni-
ture manufacturing firm of Schirmer &;
Stock of Cincinnati, has retired from the
firm and will go on the stage as a profess
sional magician, with the costliest outfit
ever seen. 1t is said his work has never
been equaled in this country. Mr. Stock is
very wealthy and man of great learning.
Senator Cameron of Pennsylvania is the
one man in the senate who refuses to be in
terviewed. His boast is that never in the
course Of his public career has he yielded
to the Establishments of an interviewer He
is very proud of the way in which he has
warded off all interviewers and declares
that he will never break his policy OF 81
lence.