Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-14
eLooKs AND CHIPS.

j Tom Reed has taken to smoking again
after an abstinence Of four years
! Abel Head of Boston has two brothers
named Ernest Head and Willing Head.
I President Harper of the Chicago universe.
ty has expressed the belief that the story OF
Cain and Abelis myth.
Senator Hoar dictates all his correspond
ence to his stenographer in the senatecham-
Der while the senate is in session.
Judge Frank Doster of Kansas received
from school authorities one day letter
stating that his son had been engaged in
q disgraceful fight. His reply was to the
point, (which licked!"
Charles L. Fair, son Of the ex-senator,
has settled down in Paris to a most exem-
plary life. His sudden marriage to wom-
an in San Francisco has not ended disas-
trously, as was predicted.
Abe Slupsky is not myth. but real flesh
and blood. Not long ago he kept second
hand furniture store in St. Louis, but since
the newspapers picked him up he has be-
come full fedged politician.
Louis L. Ullman, who was left blind at
the age of 5years by an attack OF scarlet
fever, but was not prevented thereby from
studying law, which he has been practiclng
in Buffalo, has been made a United States
commissioner.
Lieutenant S. S. Bumstead, senior in
spector of rifle practice in the Massachn-
sets militia, has resigned. He was mem
Der of the American rifle team which went
to Europe and ranks among the first rifle
shots in the world.
Marshall Field, the merchant prince,
never refuses to see q newspaper repre-
sentative. Now and then he declines to
discuss public matters, but as rule he Is
good for short, crisp, businesslike opin-
ion, full of good sense.
There are numerous instances where sons
have succeeded their fathers in the house
of representatives, but only twice, it is
said-in the case of Thomas F. Bayard and
Donald Cameron-have they succeeded
their fathers in the senate.
Captain Benjamin Thompson of kenne-
bunkport, Me, is a lively specimen OF the
down east skipper. He celebrated his one
hundredth birthday short time ago and
in q wrestling match proved too much for
his eldest son, Il years old.
Iduh w Su3ltiA OIL CN 0he3SAAoS ~ O~~~SS
was Union soldier during the war and was
confined in Andersonville prison. In the
course of his Imprisonment he was ex-
changed three times and each time gave
his exchange to man with family.
Mr.. Cleveland does not like oysters or ap-
prove of their use as food, so on the daily
menu of the White House oysters never ap-
pear, but on the occasion of state dinners
Mr.. Cleveland puts aside his prejudice and
allows his guests to eat oysters at his table,
Ferdinand Ward. who a few years ago
was the Napoleon of finance" is now
working in little printing shop in New
York. His employer and associates know
his past, and he is said to be the best work
man in the establishment. He learned his
trade in the penitentiary.
L. E. Gaffney, the recently elected asso-
ciate justice of the South Dakota supreme
court, is considered one of the best lawyers
in the far west. At IA, while on his fathers
farm in Wisconsin, he began the study Of
law and read all the books he could Dor
row, being too poor to buy them.