Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-16
Personalities.

Hiram S., Maxim was the first man
| to pay fare for an electric cab when
they began running in London a few
days ago.
! A band of twenty-five men and wo-
| men in Boston have organized clut
| TO- abolish marriage, and point to Shell
| ley, George Sand and others as Their
apostles.
The new bishop of Bristol, England
is newspaper man by profession. He
was regular contributor to the Pail
Mall Gazette under Mr.. Greenwood and
also wrote for the magazine
Millionaire Bradbury, whom the San
Francisco authorities arrested for spit
ting on the floor of cars. has again
been arrested for kicking music
teacher down his back stairs.
The dedication of the monument
which has been erected to the memory
France. will take place on October 3.
General Billot, the minister of war, will
preside at the ceremony.
Francois Aurele Pulszky, the Hun
garian author. who has just died at
Buda-Pesth on the eve of the eighty
third anniversary of his birth, was a
brother patriot with Louis Kossuth, the
hero of Hungary, in the great Magyar
struggle for liberty. 49,.
James Abram Garfield, son of Presi-
dent Garfield, is to be married next
month. His bride will be Miss Reba
Williams Of Glenville. o., friend from
childhood of the Garfields The young
people Travelled through Europe last
year in company with Miss Williams
parents.
Aloise Manhardt of Vienna, who died at
the beginning of the present year left to
his heirs n number of huge cases filled
with railroad tickets which he had col
lected from all parts of the world. and
for which he had spent fortune. When
the heirs caused the value of this strange
legacy to be estimated their disillusion
was painful The 100000 tickets had to
be sold to an English house for 1000 flor
ins or less than $1,000.
Rev. DIR. Edward Everett Hale tells
this to the Boston Christian Register:
When Theodore Parker left this coun-
try for the last time he sent me, with
his farewell, five volumes Of his works,
each with his own autograph. I have
lent each of these to some FRIEND
who has forgotten to return it, and /
do not now possess one of the five
The late James Barclay Jerman of AL
bany, N. Y. left $4,000 to Williams col
lege for the establishment of Barclay
Jerman professorship; $4,000 for pro-
fessorship Of political economy and in
ternatiOnal law at Middlebury college
Vermont; $4,000 for the home for aged
men in Watervliet,, N. Y; 100000 as an
endowment fund for Presbyterian
church in the village of West Troy, and
900 for the Fairview home for friend
less children in Watervliet.
Mr.. Jansen, the eminent astronomer
has left Paris to inspect his Mont Blanc
observatory. The scientific caravan will
start from ChamOunix soon to take me-
neurological readings at an altitude of
1900 feet the highest station in the
world: Mr.. Perrotin. director of the Nice
observatory, is expected ta join the par
~ In order to study the morning elonga-
ton of Venus and to ascertain the period
Of the planets rotation. now debated
question among astronomers.
President Kruger of the Transvaal.
mas SO far departed from his usual sim
piicity In matters of the kind as to order |
IS said. will cost him not less than 1880 |
The arms OF the south African republic |
VIII be painted upon the panels of the |
1oors; silver eagles the national emblem |
Will pose with spread wings upon the |
silver lamps and upon the four corners of |
the upper part of the carriage. and the |
interior will be lined with light blue sat
in. 80
Davy Stephens, who for fifty years has |