Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-05-19
JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN"

Ryland F. Bailey of Carleton, Mich, il 9d
years old. He was a close personal friend
| OF the late General Custer.
Congressman Boon, who represents the
Seventh Missouri district in the present
| congress, is the younger of twin brothers
Ex-senator Henry L. Dawes, with his
erect figure, closely cropped whiskers and
vigorous style of speech, looks much young
er than his IS years.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner J. ID.
| Yeomans of Iowa is an enthusiastic horse
man. and lie hrS a stock farm at Sioux
| CRY, where he breeds trotting horses.
Lord Percy Douglass, son Of the Marquis
Of QUeensberrv. has been varying the mo-
| EOtOny Of picking up gold nuggets in Aus
traiia by acting as referee at prize fights.
Professor Charles Eliot Norton has been
styled by Colonel Thomas Wentworth Hig-
ginson the most cultivated man in Amer
lea" He continues to be very popular at
Harvard.
Howard Gould's punctured heart has
been plugged up by the purchase of the
Eiglant. Brother George decided that it
was yacht end not wife that the young
man needed.
Ex-Mnister Charles Emory Smith of
Philadelphia has been decorated by the
French minister of public instruction with
the gold palm and laurel of one of its hon
orary officers.
Erek Jorgensen the firearms inventor, is
pnrtly, we'll poised man. with dark eyes
! and full gray beard. He occupies the posi-
tion in the Orway armOry of bessemager
or lunnaker.
Baron l!rsch gave dinner mt the Savoy
hotel, London, r, Gently to go men, each of
whom was n millionaire. The fact that the
meal cost but 500 for each guest seems to
have caused some disappointment to the
public.
Major Halford, formerly Harrison's pri-
vate secrC tary, is becoming leading citi-
zen of Omaha, where, in addition to his mil
itary duties, he manages the biggest Bible
class in the city and helps to get out "a week
ly religious paper.
Senator Lindsay is a big, good natured
kentuckiaR When he first entered the
senate, he had no idea of conceafing execu-
tive secrets, and he was picnic for news
paper men until Joe Blackburn gave him a
few lessons in senatorial customs.
Mr. John Patton, Jr., who has been ap-
pointed u United States senator by Govern
or Rich of Michigan in place of the late
Senator StOckbridge, is a brilliant speaker
and has already made a record as a stump
speaker for the Republican party in Michi-
gan.
Thomas II. Benton, for 80 years United
States senator from Missouri, would not al
low the word Hon" to be prefixed to the
pamphlet copies of his speeches which he
sent to his constituents and other persons.
The title page reads, Speech of Mr.. Benton
of Missouri"
Field Marshal Won Blumenthal, the only
surviving German marshal of the Franco
Prussian war, says he believes that war
about every 30 years for some unfathoma-
BILE reason seems to be indispensable to IRE
establish the equilibrium necessary to the
progress and development of society,""
Congressman McCleary of Minnesota is
the schoolmaster of the house He was for
many years professor of political science
in the Minnesota State Normal school and
has written number of schoolbooks that
are widely used. He is one of the men in
the house elected contrary to their own
wishes