Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-12-19
THE IlSTENER.
Senator Coke of Texas will be GO year.
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Senator Coke of Texas will he GO years
of age next March.
James Willis Of Mount Sterling. KY,
has been struck by lightning four differ
emit times and still lives.
John Floyd, n eulured carpenter OF Au-
gusta. Ga, has named his four sons Jay
Gould. Vanderbilt, Rockefeller and Phil
Armour.
Joseph Myichrccst, the South American
diamond king" who can talk about
selling the gems by the quart. is Manx-
man by birth.
Prince Ruspoli. mayor Sf Rene, Is n
believer In republicanism. He owns land
in Florida, raises cranbcrries in New Jer-
sey boys and married lady of Boston.
The Rev. DIR. Charles II. Parkhurst has
n double in the house OF representatives in
the person of the new Alabama member.
Mr.. Harrison. elected to Ill out the term
Of Governor Oates.
NJ. Ernst Cnrnot, son Of the late prcsi-
| dent of France, who Is an engineer, has
been appointed private secretary Of NJ.
Picard, who is commissioner general of
the Paris exposition of 1900.
William sloan Green, who was lately
| down with the measles at his home in
Swazee, near Marion. Ind, is all right
again and says he hasn't felt rs well for
| 20 years Willie is aged los.
John Burns, the English labor leader,
| Is SO years Of age and Is practical me-
chanic. He represents n London district
| in parliament and won his fame during
the great strike Mt the London docks
Parncll Fisher Of Bridgeport, Del, can
carry a barrel Of flour In each hand and
can trot easily along with 400 pounds on
his shoulder. But he is n big sort of n fell
| low, feet = = inches in height and weigh
ing eco pounds,
Little Coon. an intelligent colored hard
| ware merchant in New Orleans, has made
application IN have his name legally
! changed. He Is & feet high, weighs ecu
pounds and says that his name makes peO-
| pie laugh the moment they see him.
| Lord Dunravcn has just successfully
passed the examination for a yachtman' Z
certificate, emitting him TO be sailing
master Of his own yacht The examina.
tiOn was n still one, lasting three days.
Lord Brasscy holds n like certificate.
Jim H4n of Dana's Two Years Before
| the Mast" who came To be commodore OF
the great Pacific Steam Navigation com
pany, with - steamers plying between
Panama, Pacific ports south and Liver
pool, is still living nj Weymouth, Mass.
When General John Il. Gordon went &c
| Columbia, Mo, To lecture on the Last
Days Of the Confedcracy." he met the man
| who carried him OF the field when dcs
| pcratcly wounded Mt Gettysburg. The
veteran had walked Il miles TO $40 him.
Ward McAllister now boldly and with,
out fear OF contradiction declares that "a
tradcsman can b. n veritablc gentleman. 81
This is revolutionary. Pretty soon Mr..
McAllistcr will BE- asserting that one who
works for n living may actually be a re
spectacle person.
Ex-Governor Foster Of Ohio was elected
TO congress In district supposed to b
hOpClcSsly Democratic without his an
nUuncing himself rs n candidate for the
nomination ar making n single speech Il
secure his election. His attack on BeT
Butler first made him a national figure.
Mrs. BIackwocd. the Indiana woman
whose matrimonial versatility has heel
the subject OF public comment from tim
To time. Is about to marry her Twelfth
husband. She lives in Marshall county
in that state. and in a matrimonial stat
that brCaks the rCCOrd. Six Of her hus
bands have bccn divorced. four died. an,
one was killed.