Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-30
THE LISTENER.

Sam F. Floger of Vernon county, Mo-, had wagon loaded with 3, 1000 pounds of stone pass over him without breaking a bone.
 Louis Voisson, who has been French consul in Philadelphia for the last ten years, has had conferred upon him the cross of tho Legion of Honor.
 "A great big good natured man, 6 feet 6, weighing $50 pounds and fond of talk ing, " is the description of Ii Hung Chang given by John W. Posters secretary.
 Colonel Paget of the Scots Guards, who has just attained his colonelcy, is the last officer in the regiment who joined before the abolition of the purchase system.
 Mayor Strong of New York is tobacco chewer, but, instead of plug or fine cut, he uses fine Havana cigars, which he cuts into small chunks, each one constituting chew.
 Comptroller of the Currency Eckels was an excellent baseball player before he as stunned his present high office, but now he does not indulge in his fondness for the national game.
 While a witness in New York court, Edouard Remeuyi the famous violinist, said that he had been playing the violin for 50 years and had handled about 10, 900 instruments during that time.
 J. W. Bradbury, formerly United States senator from Maine, celebrated his ninety third birthday at Augusta. About 40 members of the Kennebec bar called upon him in a body. He was elected to the sen ate in 1884.
 Tho new Portuguese minister to the United States, MT. Ade Sequeira Chedim, is Q particularly handsome man of about 40, with very elegant and attractive man. ners. He speaks English with only slight trace of accent.
 Ex-.Judge Horace Russell of New York rarely appears in court unless he is called upon to attend to some of the varied in terestS of his father-in- law, ex-Judge Hill ton. He is n tall, strongly built man of 90, with brown beard strcaked with gray. Platon Pawlow, the famous Russian his torian and art critic, who died in St. Pe- tersburg a few days ago, was 72 years old. Owing to his liberal views and influence over tho young, he was deprived of his pro- fessorship in the sixties and banished to Wctluga
 Lord Rosebery on his retirement distrib- uted only five baronetcies. This was in marked contrast with tho liberality of MT. Gladstone, who, it was once said, twas for years in the habit of creating baronet | about every three weeks, especially on rainy days"
 Prince Khilkoff, Russian minister of | ways and communications, is a practical | engineer of skill and experience. He worked as an ordinary mechanic and as a locomotive engineer in Canada and the United States and subsequently, spent sev- eral years with an engineering firm in Liv- | erpool.
 Pierola, the rebel leader, who has been elected president of Peru, is handsome man, tall, erect and well propOrtioned. His hair is slightly tingcd with gray, and at the top of his forehead is a white lock | that Is in singular contrast with tho rest. Pierola is distinguished, it Is said, for his | courtesy.
 Australia's Grand Old Man is Sir Henry Parkes, who has played moro prominent part in that islands politics than any oth- l CT man. At first sight he appears to be the oldest man alive, looking to be even | more than his so years of age but in reality he shares with Gladstone, the pope and Bismarck tho art of keeping tho vital ity and energy of youth.