The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-10-05
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

N. Dupuy and NJ. Declasse, each a
years old, are the oldest men In the
French cabinet.
Mr.. S. B. Armour, Of Kansas City.
Il member of the famous firm Of pack
ers, has given $4,000 to the Childrens
Home of that city.
Two of Mr.. Cleveland's numerous
"doubles" are John G. Johnson, OF
Philadelphia, and John Mcdonald, Of
New York. both lawyers.
At the commencement exercises Of
Elmira college the degree of Doctor Of
Philosophy was conferred upon Miss
Jeanne Elizabeth Hotchkiss, Of ths
class Of 1887.
NJ. Casimir-P the new president
OF France, received from his father
the snug legacy Of 100000 francs
and has since added largely to his for
tune.
Although 1874 Harvard graduates
died last year, the Rev. DR.. Furness,
of Philadelphia, lives on, hale and
hearty, the oldest alumnus Of the uni
versity, aged 90.
Prof. Goodwin Smith, who has re-
| turned from England to his home in
eral of his books, new editions of which
will soon appear.
Brander Matthews resides In New
York. He is married and has one
daughter. Mr. Matthews does not de-
pend upon literature for living. He
inherited fortune.
The Woodford prize in oratory.
which is given annually at Cornell
University, has been awarded this
year to a woman, for the first time in
the history Of the university.
The Pope, although there Is no re-
markable change in him, is declining
in strength. He Is much bowed in
figure, and has rather frequent fits Of
somnolence, as was the case about
two years ago.
DR.. W. s. Lumpkin, Of Atlanta, Ga.
sued that city for $4,000 damages, al
leging that the injurious fumes from
an open sewer had ruined his health.
The jury found In his favor to the
amount Of $500.
c. s. Bushnell, of Connecticut, who
furnished the money necessary for the
building of the Monitor, and carried
out in full the ideas of its inventor,
joying good health.
John Handson Craig, known profess
sionally as John Powers, the Ken
lucky giant died at Danville, Ind, re-
Gently, aged As. He was a museum
attraction for twenty years, and
weighed 700 pounds.
Mrs. Adeline Knapp, who has been
for several years race track reporter
of the San Francisco Call, rides, man
fashion, in Turkish trousers, q cuta-
way coat, and a silk hat. She owns a
number of fine horses.
Richard Henry Stoddard, who is now
in his 10th year, and next to DR..
Holmes; our oldest living poet, Is still
in the literary harness, and con-
tributes book reviews regularly to one
of the New York newspapers.
The Grand Cross Of the Legion Of
Honor-the highest order in the gift Of
France-has been bestowed by Presi-
dent Carnot upon Ambrose Thomas,
the composer Of 'fMignon." He is the
first musician who has ever been thus
honored.
Julian Hawthorne, who went with
his wife and children to Jamaica q
few months ago, has concluded to re-
side there permanently. He Is living
on a fine plantation near Kingston, and
is growing orange and citron trees
and coffee.
DR.. Karl Blind informs the students
of Oxford that their annual custom Of
bringing in a boar's head to their
Christmas banquet is a survival of the
sacrificial banquet the old Vikings
used to hold in honor Of Freye, the
Morse sun god.
Prince Bismarck, it is said, has the
peculiar habit of drinking champagne
from the bottle, not from the glass
of course only in his own house. He
declares that only in that way can he
get its good effects. He drinks it by
order Of his physician.
The ruler of Cobourg, better known
as the Duke of Edinburg, is a man Of
many hobbies. Among them must be
counted his curious mania for collect
ing miniature silver ships. At the
present time he is the proud possessoR
of Il fleet numbering considerably over
fifty.
The Scribner Bros, book publishers,
of New York, under the name Of
of the wellknown New Jersey mtlliou-
Charles Scribner'S Sons, are grandsons
aire, John l. Blair. Their mother,
Aurelia Blair, was one of the two
daughters Of the man who Is to-day
probably the richest man in New Jer-
Sey.
Miss Margaret Rogers, q twenty
three-year-old girl Of Monterey coun-
ty, California, has already made a
fortune in the horse and cattle bust
ness. She rounds up cattle, breaks
hcrses, can pillow, sow and harvest,
and is withal refined woman who
abhorS loudness. She Is q charming
hostess, good performer on the
piano. and has an excellent educa-
tion.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Art Institute of Chicago has re-
ceived from Harriet Hosmer the cast
she made in 1858 of the clasped hanas
OF Robert Browning and his wife. This
IS the cast of which Hawthorne wrote
in the Marble Faun": 1T symbol
ICES the individuality and heroic union
of two high poetic lives" The auto
graph Of Elizabeth Barrett Brown
ing Rome, May, 1853" Is on the wrist
o. one: Robert Browning. Rome" on
the wrist Of the other. Miss Hosmer
refused in England an offer Of $1,000
for the unique cast
Henry Mueller, who celebrated his
one hunlredth birthday in the New
Jersey soldiers home at Kearny, June
q. was a German of Brunswick, who
enlisted in Napoleons's service when
seventeen years old, and went through
the Moscow campaign; he was in the
field again in the Hundred Days, and
wound I'D that part of his career with
Waterloo. Then coming over to Am
erica, he enlisted in the United States
Army, served through the Seminole
and Mexican wars, and then was dis
charged. When the rebellion broke
out he was in California, sixty-seven
years old, and straightway enlisted in
the Sixth Infantry, but closed the war
as a member of the Thirteenth Inde-
pendent Company Of New York Ar
Republican.
Not Exacting.
Young Muney-Ah, fair one, be minsl
1 will give up wealth, fame, position@yea,