The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-01-05
THE MAN ABOUT TOWN.

Mayor Pro Tenn Swift of Chicago Is a
manufacturer of axle grease
Lord Colin Campbell recently turned M
In Bombay as counselor employed to de-
fend 90 Mohammedans implicated in the
great riots.
Mr.. Gladstone has no idea that he has ap-
preached the age when he should retire
from active life His plans are laid as lib
orally as if he were youth of 80.
Governor Elect Greenhalgo of Arassachu-
sets was born i'll England. The old Bay
btate has never before elected foreign
born citizen to her chief executive chair.
John Hooker, husband of Isabella Beech
er Hooker SISTER of the late Henry Ward
Beecher), has resigned the position of re-
porter of the supreme court of Connecticut.
which he had held for SO years.
Lord Rosebery remarked Mt a recent din
ner that wherever in the world there is n
good thing there would be found Scotch
man sitting by it. Even the canny lad that
sits by himself will confirm this.
A Boston reporter asked Colonel Inger-
soil the other day whether it is true that he
now believes in immortality, and was told,
Love was the first to dream of immortal
ity, and as long rs we love we shall hope"
Rawlins Cottenet, scion of half the
great families of New York, a member of
the Knickcrbocker club, an approved ex-
ponent of the most fashionable precepts OF
the day, has opened n new flower shop on
Fifth avenue.
Representative Bryan of Nebraska has
taken rank faster than any other new Nom
Der of the house. He is always ready. His
use of books is that of Il we'll trained and
practiced lawyer, who can hold his informa-
ton well in hand.
Secretary Jarng of the Corean legation Mt
Washington is an ardent student of the
English language. He takes his lessons in
the most practical way. learning about
things he has to handle each day in the af
fairs of the household.
Van Roberts, hotel keeper Mt Rush
Hill, Mo, has fallen heir to 5000, 600, left
him by John Bennett who died Mt Las We
gas, n. NJ. Roberts saved Bennett from
drowning in the Sagamon river, near Deca-
tur, Ills, 20 years ago.
r. G. B. Howard, commander of Mary
lands oyster navy, conceals beneath his
triple initials the names Thomas Contcc
Bowie, and comes of three or four famous
Maryland families who have given to the
state judges and senator's
a hitherto unfamiliar remark of Abr,.
ham Lincoln, and which is good enough to
go into the schoolbooks, is this one, which
Senator Palmer of Illinois says Lincoln
made to him: II have simply tried 10 do
my duty every day, hoping that when to-
morrow came would be equal TO it,
+. Marion Crawford, in Il recent article
on the pope, remarks that in the matter of
physique there is Il close rcscm blancc be
tween Leo Nil, President Lincoln and Mr..
Gladstone-lean, sound mind, of bony
constitution, indomtable vitality, large
skull. high checkboncs and energetic Jaws
The biggest man in Washington is Cap
tain Maddox. The pointer lilies round to
$50 pounds when this gentleman steps on
the platform and drops IL penny in the slot.
The southern senators and representatives
all know Captain Maddox They credit
him with being the best poker player in
Washington.
Vastly Vasilievich Berry, the latest addi-
ton to the number of Russian political refu.
gees in London, is n remarkable man. He
is ca years old, and &c have been spent in
exile and imprisonment. He has been in
side no less than 30 prisons and yet has
committed no act humanity or civilization
can regard as u crime.