The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-02-07
THE LISTENER.


John Goodbaby is resident Of Orono,
Me.
Prince Bismarck is an ardent admirer OF
everything English.
President Dole of Hawaii has as remark
able beard AS Senator PETER.
Mr. Gladstone is said to take sherry and
egg as his congressional tea"
Baron Stackelberg the Partisan million.
aire, owns the island of Worms.
Rothschild requires of his cook differ.
ent kind of soup for every day in the year
Stephen J. Field is tue oldest member OF
the United States supreme court His age
is77.
Senator Hunton of Virginia is now in his
seventy-second year, but is a strong and &c.
tive man.
John Patrick Hopkins, the new mayor OF
Chicago, is said to be the handsomest chief
executive officer that the Windy City even
has had
The name most whispered now rs the
strongest candidate for pope to succeed
Leo XIII is Mgr. Dominica Jacobin, the
papal nuncio in lisbon.
Richard McGriff of Decrfield and John
McGrilf Of Geneva. Ind, claim to be the
oldest pair of twins in the country. They
are in their ninetieth year.
Mgr. Satolli does not credit the Spanish
provcrb that says bad luck comes with
birds. He has feathered songsters in every
part Of his Washington home.
General b. e. Cook of Northampton.
Mass, has kept Il jewelry store on tho sam.
| spot i'll that city for over G6 years His nine
| tieth birthday, which occurred recently
| was made the occasion OF dinner from fe..
| low townsmen.
| Alfred Pinchot is said to be the first
| American to graduate from n school of for.
| cstry and take up forestry as profession
| He is tho consulting forester on the estate
| of George w. Vanderbilt. in the North
| Carolina mountains.
| Senator Isham G. Harris Of Tennessee
told II friend the other day that he had new
or taken much delight in public life and
would much prefer to follow his profession
| Of the law. Nearly all of his life has been
| spent in the public service.
| There are two men in congress who never
carry an umbrella These are Congressman
| Kilgorc of Texas and Senator Cockrell of
| Missouri No matter what the weather,
whether it be snow or rain, these men do
not take enough account Of the storm ~
| carry an umbrella.
Patient old Billy McGarrahcn still sits
!
for his famous claim to be put through He
is not discouraged yet and is back in his
old haunts as cheerful and sunny and san
| suinc us the first day he appeared in the
lobby. some 80 years ago.
| l.abouchere, the English Radical. is n
| man of the world-keen. unbelieving, hard
as nails, Il mockcr at everything, including
himself, II "fancur' of the "naneurs." n
boulcvardier of the boulcvardicrs-w with a
| sauntcring gait, Il slow, dra ling and wca.
ricd voice and an eternal cigarette
George Stock, member of the big furni.
turc manufacturing firm of Schirincr <;
| Stock Of Cincinnati, has retired from the
firm and will 20 on The stage as a profes.
| sional :lagician, with the costliest outfit
| ever seen. 1t is said his work has never
been equaled in :h;S country. Mr.. Stock is
very wealthy anu Il man of great learning
Senator Cameron Of PENNSYLVANIA is the
one man in the senate who refuses to he in
tcrviewctl. His boast is that never i'm the
course of his public career has he yielded
TO the Establishments of an interviewer He
is very proud of the way in which lie has
| warded off all interviewcrs and declare
that he will never break his policy OF 81.
! lence.