Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-26
Of Personal Interest.

| VI PorS0n9l interest.
| Relic hunters have so defaced tn,
tomb of Daniel Boone, in Frankfort
| KY, that the letters Of it's Inscription
can hardly be deciphered.
John Bowie Strange Camp of Confeder
ate veterans of Charlottesville, Va. hav,
perfected plan for the erection of al
| equestrian statue Of StonewaH Jackson
One of the most famous Irish professor
of the present generation Is about to re
| tire in the person of Sir Thomas Moffat O
Galway college. He was principal of thi
college for twenty-five years.
c. H. J. Taylor. who was recorder O.
deeds Tor the District of Columbia, under
President Cleveland's administration. ha.
been elected dean of the Morris-B Brown
| college, negro institution in Atlanta.
BY way of commemorative the seven.
! tieth birthday of Adolf Mcneil. the Berlin
Academy of Plastic Arts has founded a
scholarship of the annual value of SO(
marks. for which students of painting o,
sculpture may compete.
A Tennessee paper says that Goyerno,
Taylor finds his salary of $4,000 Inadequate
for his yearly expenses for Comfortable
support and that it is to aid in KEEPING
the wolf from the door that he goes uDon
the platform to lecture for fee.
The Prince of Wales, when he attends a
state function in full dress wears ono If
the most costly ornaments at the British
court. 1t Is plume of feathers pulled
from the tails of the feriWah. the rarest
and most beautiful of Indian birds.
General Booth. who has gone to Ber
lin to open a vigorous campaign in be-
half of the Salvation Army, expects to
enlist as many men as the German
Emperor has in the imperial army.
J. NJ. Barrie's description of himself in
his journalistic days. ten or twelve years
ago. is: AN uncOuth stranger wandering
in the dark round the castle, his apnear.
ance unprepossessing. a book in each
pocket and his thoughts 300 miles due
NORTH
The number of pilgrims to Burns birth
place last year was $780, During the
same period 10000 persons visited Shakes
peare's house at Stratford-on-Avon and
HOS paid a tribute to the memory of
Thomas Carlyle by going to see his old
home at Ecclefechan.
The recent anniversary of the raid
of John Brown has brought to lish-
the interesting fact that George w.
Boyer of Harper's Ferry, is the sole
surviving member of the jury which
tried the famous leader
The Mikado of Japan, though pas
sionately fond of horse racing, allows
no betting on his track, and pursues
the sport for sports sake. He has
agents now in this country looking for
20 first class horses for the imperial
stables.
A blind woman, Miss Bouley, took one
or the first prizes for counterpart and
fugue at the Paris conservatory this
year. while two others of the sex shared
the harp prize at the Brussels conserva-
tory. Miss Hantson was awarded the
first prize with the greatest distinction"
and the first harp prize was given also to
a woman.
The Gallaudet Celebration Associa-
ton of New England has decided to
observe the one hundred and tenth an
niversary of the birth of the Rev.
Thomas H. Gallaudet, the father of
education for deaf mutes in Boston.
on December 10.
A distinguished professor of Dublin
University. DR.. Mahaffy, is reported to
have said the other day that h.
doubted whether as the result of the
educational movement of the last 80
years the people of England are either
happier or better"
NJ. Lepine, ex-perfect of police in
Paris. who has been appointed gov
ernor general of Algeria, has always
been the terror of Franch Anarchists.
and as Louise Michel is about to make
a lecture tour of the very province to
which he has been assigned the out
come is awaited with interest.
Referring to the late ex-UniteI
States Senator Robertson of South
Carolina, Washington correspondent
of the Baltimore Sun says: Perhaps |
his greatest personal defect was his |
pride in his wealth. and common say
ing of his in social gatherings and |
around dinner tables in Washington
was: I don't scratch a poor mans |
nose"
Henry o. and James NJ. Neville. twins, |
were born in Kentucky in 1915 and the
of their careers is something |
Both married sisters and ]
each is the father of seven children, each |
lost child. each was county judge, |
each entered the federal army as a cap
tain and was mustered out of service as
a colonel. Their father James Neville. a
Virginian. served as private through
the Revolutionary war and died in Fau-
quier county at the age of SO years.
When Benjamin Franklin arrived in
Philadelphia from his first voyage to Eng
land he became violently ill and no one
could persuade him that he was not 60
ing to die. 1t was then that he wrote the
famous epitaph for his tombstone: THE
body of Benjamin Franklin. like the COW
er of an old book it's contents torn out
and stript of it's gliding, lies here food
for worms. Yet the work itself shall not
be lost, for it will appear once more in a
new and more beautiful edition corrected
and amended by the author"