Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1895-01-08
THg LISTENER.

Colonel breckenridge has placed him.
self in the hands of manager anu VIII
take tho lecture stage
Tbo conversion of Archie Thayor, de.
sc,ii,ea MS ssBath's most noted gambler,
is announced by a Maine Clergyman.
s,gnor Crispi may be a tribe disappoint
cd in italian politics. but he is basking IN
the sunshine of ,natrimony, having peeh
recently married for the fourth time.
At a recent wedding in Mokane, MO,
the groom's nane was a brahtlin
Strickland, and that OF the olleia'i"t'
Clergyman was jefferson Davis Greer.
No assassin will leap on Preside i1s
Perler's new carriage, for he's had IL pulle
so that his seat is about seven feet above
the ground. It comes high, but he 1eels
satisfied.
Judge Holcomb, the fnsionist governor
elect of Nebraska. stands 1ee1 IN
height weighs ESQ pounds and FasS a lhcs s
which is an affidavit OF earnsstne'ss anu
honesty.
Christian Conrad, who boasts that he
heard President Washington make an
omen air speech in 1875, is living on
farm near Manchester, Ia, at the reputed
age of I06 years
Senator Frye of Maine is a particularly
effective campaign speaker His is dry
hu0Of, 4lE UP ~ YUM
His appearance recalls the picture OF the
senators of two generations ago.
After struggling along for 10 years
Henry Bigelow Williams of Boston has
paid off his creditors dollar for dollar. BE
failed in 1879 for $500, 900 and then prom
ised toliquidate in full If he lived to do IL.
Adolph Sutro, mayor elect of San Fran
cisco, who gained fame and wealth by the
Comstock tunnel that bears his name, is
the owner of one-tenth of the entire area
of San Francisco county. BE is a native
OF Rhenish Prussia and is 6S years old.
NJ L. Trecul, the learned botanist and
mem Der of the French Academy OF Sci
ences, was nearly burned to death in bed the
other night. He was, as usual, reading
when tho curtains caught fire. In trying
to extinguish the flames he was badly
burned.
Baron de Courcel, the French embassa-
dor to Great Britain, was president of tho
court of arbitration in the Boring sea dis
pute between America and England.
Formerly he represented Franco at Berlin.
His father was a family solicitor to Tai
1eyrand.
Lewis Y. Graft, one of the Oldest mem
bers of the Commercial Exchange of Phil
alelphia, sent his congratulations to
Mayor Elect Strong of New York city on
tiie ISSuAJ hilOil
a poor boy, was clerk in a country store
in Ohio under Mr.. Graft.
Lord Beeforth, the present mayor of
Scarborough, England, and one of the
wealthiest men in that country, was born in
one of the poorest districts in London. He
owes much of his money to his associa-
ton with Gustave Dore, with whom he
founded the Dore gallery.
Dr. Talmage is said to receive $500 for
a lecture and sometimes $1,000. He
makes more money out of his lectures
than any other man on the platform.
Colonel Ingersoll's price is $500, while
DIR. MoGlynn, Joseph Cook and others of
the same rank of lecturers command from
500 to $50.
General Cassius NJ Clay's roomy old
mansion, Whitehall, is full of handsome
antique furniture that would delight n
collector. The old Kentuckian has always
dispensed fine hospitality at Whitehall.
1t is one of tho show places of the blue
grass region, and visitors are charmingly
entertained there.