Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-03
Of Personal Interest.

John L. Stoddard says in his new iec-
ture on Norway that the most interesting
sight in Bergen is the grave of that mar
Vicious Norwegian violinist, Ole Bull
Mr.. Wilson, the secretary of agricul-
ture, will make the principal address at
the opening of the negro agricultural col
lege at Tuskegee, Ala. on November II.
General Carlos Ezeta. ex-president of
San Salvador. though once powerful and
influential, is now nearly pauper and
recently brought into an Oakland, Cal,
court for nonpayment of his rent.
The German emperor has decorated Dr.
Mendel Hirsch, son of the late Rabbi S.
K. Hirsch of Main, and
director of the Hebrew Realschule there,
with the order of the Red Eagle, third
class.
Rev. Thomas Ewing Sherman, son Of
General William Tecumseh Sherman,
says that his duties have compelled
him to travel over 100000 miles in the
last two years.
Isaac H. Clothier of Philadelphia, who
recently purchased in Europe the beauti-
full painting "A Quaker Wedding" has
placed it on exhibition at Swarthmore
college, and it has been hung in the col
lege parlOr.
F. Hopkinson Smith. the painter, writ
er. contractor and connoisseur of art, al
ways writes from notes and observation
When he does water colors he always re-
sorts to scenes long become familiar by
close study.
Prof. Runge, the famous German as
ment mission. In a few months he ex-
poets to 'epare report on the progress
of astronomy and astrophysics in the
United States.
Down in Texas a little Miss Fite of
Moran wants to pick cotton against
little Miss Ward of Meridian. Both
are six years old and they weigh 4S
and 43 pounds, respectively.
While an American actress Miss
Rehan is Irish both by birth and de-
scent. her father having been a Linz
erick shipbuilder and she herself born
in that famous Shannon city.
Kaiser Wilhelm is said to have taken a
great liking to Lieutenant Niblack, the
naval attache of the United States en-
bassy in Berlin. and frequently invites
him to the palace where they discuss ma
val matters with the greatest informal
ity.
Prof. Darwin, who is delivering a
course of lectures in Boston, reads gen.
orally from notes, but has a happy way
atory passages, which relieve his manner
from the style Of the ordinary scientific
lecturer.
OF family of seven brothers named
Luke and residing in Irwin county.
Georgia. all of whom lived to an
age of more than 10 years and two of
whom survive. not one ever had a law
suit or any kind of court case.
Colonel Isaac Morrow, recently ap-
pointed immigration inspector of De-
troit, has fought through four wars.
The one between Uruguay and the
Argentine Republic. the Seminole war,
the Mexican war and the War of the
Rebellion.
John Temple Graves Of Georgia, in a
recent lecture on THE New Woman
and the Old" said: Woman is M
longer sentiment; she is a problem,
and 1t is now our unhappy mission to
grapple with her or surrender, as I
have DONE"
Senator Caffrey Of Louisiana, was
considerably annoyed by quarantine
officers on his last trip from his home
to Washington and will devote much
Of his time this winter to securing a
better and more uniform system of
quarantine inspection.
The Kansas state board Of printin,,
William Allen White of Emporia,
which he delivered at the opening of
the state university, probably because
Mr.. White has said so many severe
things about Populists.