Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-31
THE LISTENER.

MT. Kcntaro Kancko, the new Japanese minister, is ! ale man.
 The heaviest cyclist in the world is said q b,. Dr- Mrldun of Dublin, who weighs i1> pounds. He also plays lawn tennis.
 CIarncc Icxow was defeated for county u,lG,,' and C.rn-p'>sInan st Nyack, N. Y, pciJr,' his st1r arose aS Il New York state .cnat"r.
 senator GC0r--,' "f Mississippi has an in TariahlC ITl. h, Yer Ia come out of the sen . chA;hir'r [" >,t' any one not from hi' IEn state
 Whenever President Cleveland is asked ,f an tnthu. s,tic mother to kiss her ':hy. lir alw.;. :. declines, The best of " r,:iS"n> i>,' he explains, '-that the ..tsi,.S never like il,
 IT." I;,v. .Iuun =. Eb'rlir, Baptist minister uf ts..,ir,l:tlr. Pa. eats only one neal a day For :lrrIt 31 years he hn- vttrn d hearty meal nt moon, but fists dur r.S the other hours "f the day.
 Gucrrita, the grcat Spanish bullfghtcr, la> declared his unnltcr,iblc decision to IT,
 rc from tho ring. The reason given is hat he is wCrih over $2UO, O0O and that lis wife suffers terrible anxiety every time ic fights.
 Dr- -Almnn Clarke, who was assistant .urgenn uf the Tenth Vermont cavalry turing the war, has b.cn elected president rf the Wisconsin Medical society and pro 'c><or nf physical diagnosis in tho new nctliCIl college at Milwaukee.
 The oldest living white pioneer of Cali 'ornia is Colonel James l.. l.. r. Warrrn If San Francisco. He is also said to bC the Ii,'st military man in the country, the oldest editor west of New York and the 'aIhrr "f agriculture in California I>r,irl p- ConCiit, who recently cclCbrat rd liS ninety second birthday at the home of ,i> daughter in McllI'urn. N. J, was ono 1 nt il:r founders of scranton, Pa, and Is he only surviving charter member of the Norris and Essex Railroad company. l Congressman Hi;t of Illinois began ] public life as correspondent. Through | newspaper influence he went to Paris as a uCulr'r of the legation. Since he has been II congrcSs he has found his newspaper ! 'xIa rirnce of the greatest possible aid to | Iim
 l SCnutOr Hill lives in n quiet way at the \"rmandic, the same hotel that shelters ! hr NicC president, and keeps closely to 1 li- rrnm. Even his meals are brought to 1 1i~ chamber, and he has scarcely ever been ln"wn to appear at fashionable func-
 ion.
 Baron Harden Hickey of New York and | Trinidad first came into prominence i'll | INyu, when he brought to that city scmC 1aintings executed by himself of Buddhist .emplcs in India, by which he attempted
 Q prove that the doctrines of Christianity l ycrc plagiarizcd from the orientals.
 M. Casimir- Perier, the new president o France, despite his name and fortune, be .nngs to no club, it Is said. Prior to 1876
 lIS father had him elected q member o L'Union Artistique, but he only appeared here, he says, to write a few letters anC wash his hands. He resigned his mem bcrship years ago.
 Adlctack Doomacker n farmland em 1lOycd near Rapidan, Va, has a hear shaped foot which pains him greatly. H
 s unable to wear shoe on 1t because a shc point which resembles the aorta il -hc human heart n large, hard corn ha grown. and chiropodists refuse to rcmov
 it. Doomacker Is Il man of fine appear
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