Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-01-31
FEBRUARY CHAPS.

John Hopkins, the mayor OF chicago,
started in life as lumber shower.
Premier Peters of Prince Edward island
is grandson Of Sir Samuel Cunard, who
founded the Cunard line.
John Burns, the English Radical, when
asked why his voice travels so far, replied
that it is because he shapes his lips like an
an egg and speaks slowly.
President Higinbotham has little faith il
the Paris exposition of 1900 He says that
the next great international exposition will
be held in Chicago in 1910.
Charles H. Harris, who wrote AFTER the
Ball" offered to defray the fines of the first
2j persons fined in Mankato, Kan, for
whistling it after the new local ordinance.
Representative Lisle of Kentucky, who
comes from a mountainous district, says
that in stumping he has travelled for weeks
in the saddle without coming in sight Of a
railroad.
DR.. W. C. Ransome of South Haven,
Mich, is having built little schooner on
which he expects to make an expedition
around the world. The vesselwill be but
1875 feet long, with 25 feet beam.
7. j. Whitcomb, who was one of the
drummers for the Boston artillery at the
dedication of Bunker Hill monument on
June II, lS43, is now living in Temple, n.
H., S3 years old, but vigorous in mind and
body.
There are two Won Bulows in Rome-Ber-
nard, the German ambassador to Italy, and
Otto, Prussian minister to the Vatican-and
despite their different titles much o0nfu-
tion arises over the sameness OF sheir
names.
Senator Dubois of Idaho and Congress
man Wilson of Washington both say that
Senator Voorhees,, whom they familiarly
call Dan, exercised subtle and mysterious
power over their destinies when they were
young.
The appointment Of Lieutenant John H.
Alexander, talented colored officer, to the
professorship of military science and tactics
at Wilberforce university, Wilberforce, o.,
is the first OF its kind to he made in this
country.
William Lane Booker, the British consul
general at New York, who has just been
knighted, has been connected with the
British consu ulate in this country since 1851
and was for i've years before the war consul
at San Francisco.
Rev. Simon Roundtree colored Baptist
preacher of Lincoln, Neb.. although 80
years old, thinks matrimony is far from a
failure He was recently married for the
eighth time The latest Mrs. RQundtree
is A years his Junior.
Rawling Cottenet. one Of the New York
Four Hundred and a member of the Knick-
erbocker club, who opened flower store,
Is being snubbed. Ladies patronized his
establishment in large numbers, but they
were people ne had never met, while his
fellow clubmen have cut the store entirely.
Chauncey NJ. Depew drinks only one kind
of wine at banquets and eats only few Of
the more substantial dishes. He allows all
of his glasses to be filled, but he let's them
stand like sentinels around his plate until
the champagne is served. He believes that
a person car, drink quart of champagne
without harm.
William a. Wheeler, once vice president
of the United States, was once asked by a
relative of his to help him to procure a
clerkship in one of the departments at
Washington. His reply was about as fol-
lows: IF yon apply for such position and
will let me know when you do SO, will do
all that / cail-to prevent your getting it. !"