Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-28
THE LISTENER.
Count Ito, the Japanese diplomat, wna
sncc telegraph operator.

Count to- the Japanese diplomat, wna
sncc a telegraph operator.
Colonel Warning. tho New York street
cleaning commissioner, wears an English
regulation riding outfit when ON duty.
Rev. Or. MoGlymn relieves the monoto.
ny OF his life In his Ncwburg IN. W par.
ish by lccturing and succccds In attracting
large audiences.
Thomas Smith of Paris, Ills, q veteran
of % years, who carries three Conf4 te
bullets in his body, claims TO be thflIILcst
survivor of the civil war
Foreign papers say that tho tastes peak
er in the world among public men is 81.
gnor Grimald, the Italian deputy. He can
speak 200 words minute with ease.
Postmaster General Wilson, who seldom
smoked before ho was 40, has become an
invctcratc smoker. Secretary Morton, On
the othcShand, has given UP the habits
Professor Babcock Of the College of fny-
sicians and Surgeons, Chicago, has been
totally blind from birth, yet he has become
one of the most successful practitioners in
diseases Of the chest.
John G. White, Cleveland authority
on chess, has n library of about 5000 vol
mncs devoted entirely to tho gamo. This
fine collection WAS begun by his father,
the late Bushnell White.
Bishop Wesley Gaines Of Georgia Is a
colorcd man of vast proportions who is
eloquent, original and witty, and who no
licvcs, rs he expresses 1t, In putting u lot
of ginger into his sermons.
John G.. Atkinson of Henderson, KY,
resigned his ozlicc as mayor of tho city tho
other day and gave the city u valuable
piece Of property ~ n public park. Tho
council named tho new park Atkinson
park.
It is said that tho estate Of Mr.. George
W. Vanderbilt in the mountains near
Ashcpillc, n. c., has already cost its own
err 81, 600, 900, and it is believed IL will re-
quirc 1000, 600 to bring it to the desired
perfection.
Rev. W. A. Sunday, known to ball play
ers as Billy Sunday, who would never play
on Sunday, is pushing an evangelical cam
paign In Indiana and Tightening his cler-
zeal duties by occasionally acting as UNI
piro in baseball games.
william A. Fowler, who died tho other
day in Brooklyn, was Boss McIaughlin's
former lieutenant. He had lived alone and
under an assumed name for long time.
Years ago he entertained at Albany like u
prince. His influence on legislation was
wcighty.
Arthur Balfour crosses and rccrosscs his
legs with automatic regularity during u
parliamentary debate, and lIarcourt sits
bolt upright, with folded arms, often nod
ding and smiling to bis friends. Cham
berlain exhibits surprise by dropping his
eyeglass.
Before age began TO bleach his locks
Justice John NJ Harlan WINS n very tall,
rcdheadcd man of the Thomas Jefferson
type. He was the son Of great lawyer,
and when no took his seat on the bench
he gave up practice worth much more
than his judicial salary.
yaszary, the premier of Hungary, Is
man Of the most simple tastes, and when
he first entered Office his task was rendered
doubly hard by the fact that hitherto no
had been but poor Bcncdictine monk.
He drove to the primatial palace, Mt Gran,
in public cab, carrying on his knee
cage containing his pct canary.