The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-03-09
During the gold fever in California
the price of board was from S. to SIS a
day in San Francisco.
THE LISTENER.
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EX-Er2sident harrison is COnt1nlng him.
self closely to his law practice.
Senator Squire appeared in the senate
the other day attired in a Prince Albert
suit and a vest of striking yellow.
Mr.. Donovan, the only Democratic
member of Michigan's legislature, has had
a county named after him by his Repub-
lican cOnfreres.
Senator Baker of Kansas says that, while
he is not a church member, yet he has
since childhood repeated every evening a
little prayer that his mother taught him.
Beathold Neumoegen, a stockbroker of
New York, who died recently, made the
collection of butterflies his hobby. He had
over 100, 900 rare and beautiful specimens.
Senator Elect Knute Nelson is only a
tri1le over 5 feet, shorter by an nch or so
than Napoleon. He will be the smallest
man physically in the United States sem
ate.
Tom Burton of Hart county, Ga,
dreamed the night before election that he
would be reelected treasurer by $50 ma
jority. When the vote was counted, $50
votes was his exact majority.
Colonel Seward Cary, the Buffalo mil
~lionaire and amateur whip who bought
the coach Vivid, exhibited at the Worlds
fair, has arranged to run it between Buff
falo and Niagara falls next summer as a
public coach.
Ed Partridge, the Chicago board of
trade plunger, is guarded by a detective
wherever he goes. He is frightened half
to death at a notice he received that if he
does not make wheat rise 10 cents a bushel
he will be killed.
Deacon White of Wall street fame is of
the old North Carolina Quaker stock and
has been in New York making and losing
millions since 1865. His great point is his
t~enacity of purpose and of not caring
whether he is the under dog or not.
J. Sterling Morton, secretary of agricul-
ture, is as hard to make an impression
upon as if he were made of stone. No
matter how pathetic a member of congress
may become in the interest of some for
lorn female, the secretary of agriculture
remains unmOved.
Lorenzo Chanter, now a resident OF
Jackson, Mich, claims to have brought
the first tobacco seed to America from the
island of Malta in 1928. He says he plant
ed the seeds in a garden in Boston, from
which a big crop resulted. MI. Chanter is
now IS years of age.
Lord Burton of pale ale fame has given
a $500, 900 town hall for Burton upon
Trent, England, the town in which hil
immense brewery Is located. His father
Sir Michael Bass, who first brewed the
beverage which bears his name, spen1
$3.50, 900 in identifying the town.
Rev. Edward Davis Of Oakland, Cal.
recently Illustrated a sermon on ''Eterna
Judgment" by assuming the character o
Richard III and quoting in a dramatic
mi the famous s%oliloquy in the frs
scene and also in the fifth act of the play
, The preachers acting was realistic. Their
was a big audience.
, Captain w. G.. Kidd is conductor of tn
accommodation train running between
Nashville and Pulaski and has held tn
position since 1857. In all that time h
5 has never missed a trip, has never bee
reprimanded and has never been repOrte
+ to the company. Captain Kidd is 70 year
:. of age, but in activity is fully 30 year
younger.