Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-27
wlNNOWEO MEN.

Major Fred Drackctt will be general manager of the Baltimore centennial OK prsition to be held in 1897.
 George Gould is talking of buying some thing that will bc bigger and finer than anything the Asturs have in the line of houses.
 Sam Stevenson of Michigan is the rich est member of tho lower house of congress. Hc Is tall and thin and wears hand mo down clothes.
 Secretary Gresham fs tho priEe smoker 9f the cabinet. His allowance of cigars Is 20 day, and 1t Is rarc for him to bc seen without one in his mouth.
 Charles McIlvainc, an American expert on fungi, claims to have eaten full meals of over 100 species of toadstools without ever having been poisoned.
 Clifford Breckinridge of Arkansas, rc- gently appointed minister to Russia, once declined to fight duel on tho ground that he was then studying for the Presbyterian ministry.
 Tho new Lord Chief Justice Russell makes Q striking figure on the bcnoh. Clad in new white wig and a bright gray gown, he Is tho persuniflcation of dig nifty. He has taken with him to the bench his famous snuffboS.
 Judge Eli Aylcsworth, president of the Wcstninster bank of Providence, who died | ut the age of 92, had been a banker for 5t ! years. In little box in tho bank are the first four silver dollars he over earned. He i Eos them by pitching hay and hoeing pota- toes.
 senator German Is man of frugal hab. l its, but his expenditure of cash Is large, ! for he has his Laurel residence to main. 1 tain in fitting style and family of grow. ing daughters to educate and launch into 1 society. How largo his fortune is nobody knows.
 Ex President Jose Joaquin Rodriguez | of Costa Rica is in New York city. Be i fOrc hls elevation to the presidency, Mir I Rodriguez Was a judge of the supreme 1 court in his country, and ho is now mak ing special study of the American judi l cial system.
 Mark L. Gilbert, who began following the sea with his father at the ago of 10, 1 now, ct tho ago of IT, master of tho schoo l ner Addic Vessels, running between Rock land (Me and New York. and Is probo bly the youngest sea captain in the mer : chant service.
 Biddeford, Me. has a 9s-year-ord physi clan, pr. Westbrook Farrer. who is still fl active practice. and, what Is seill moro as | tOnishing, visits his patients on a bicycle He attributes his exceptional vigor to win tergrccn tea, of which he has long been jealous dcvotce.
 A recent incident has strengthened tn l faith of k. R. Martin of Brunswick, Me. in the New Testament. He was recentl shot at by highwaymen near his home, tn ball striking the thick covers of his littl pocket Bible, and was afterward found fl his vest pocket, still warm.
 Lord Wolseley. who has just been creat ed a field marshal, Is GO years of agc. H has attained that rank at an earlier az than any nOnroyal officer since the acccs sion of George III in l7GO. with the singl exception of the Duke of Welli yton, wh became a field marshal at 44.
 The youngest member of the Georgi
 bar Is Edward Harrison Bleokley, who
 not yet months old. He was unanimous
 ly elected a member of tho Bar association
 few weeks ago. He Is the son of Chic
 Justice Blecklcy, who Is not far from sC and whose wedding two years ago attract ed much attention in Georgia aud through out the south.