Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-24
NUMBER 33
THE LISTENER.

v. N. McKendrick Of St. Louis has a
watch charm made from the bell that
sounded the first alarm in the great Chi
cago fire of 1871.
The death of Lord Clonmell recently
was caused by his dropping a little hot
sealing wax on his hand, whereupon blood
poisoning rapidly developed
Walter Ralston, who travels for the
Smithsonian institution, has made a spe-
cial study of poisonous insects and reptiles
and has been fanged over 200 times.
Edward Marsden. a student in Lane
Theological seminary, Cincinnati, is the
first native Alaskan to receive legal,
theological and business education in
America.
Father Weniger, well known Jesuit
priest of Cincinnati, is said to have been
the model for the picture Of Pere Mar
quette which will appear on the Omaha
exposition stamps.
Fong Foo. who is acting as secretary to
General William Booth, Is a Sacramento
Chinaman who was converted in 1889 and
since then has been Salvation Army
worker among his conipatriots in Cali
fornia.
Professor Otto Bohtlingk, the Sanskrit
scholar and coeditor with Roth of the
great st. Petersburg Sanskrit dictionary,
recently celebrated at Leipsic the sixtisth
anniversary of his receiving the degree Of
doctor of philosophy.
NJ. Delegorgue, who presided over the
trial of Zola, is a tall, strongly built man,
with a fine carriage. His hair is gray, but
his beard is still blond. His voice Is
resonant and well modulated, and he is
said to rank high as an orator.
NJ Bosquet, who has figured as one of
the lawyers at the Zola trial, was formerly
a deputy, having represented Gard IN the
national assembly for lS years, He retired
in 1899. declining a reelection, and was
appointed a counselor at the Paris courts
In recent interview DIR. Creighton, the
bishop of London, said: 81 shall never
finish the History of the Papacy, and
shall write no more. 1t is impossible to
do one-half the work of the stupendous
diocese, leaving out the question of writ
ing any book"
George E. Thornton, who committed
suicide the other day in Denver, was the
first chief of police of the Colorado city.
He was born in Connecticut in 1929. He
was at the head of the Denver police from
1861 to 1868.
Ex- Senator William Maxwell Evarts.
who recently celebrated his eightieth birth
day at his home in New York, is now
quite feeble, and his sight has been slowly
fading for nearly ten years. For five years
he has practically done no work, though
he is still the nominal head of the law firm
of Evarts, Choate & Beaman.
Stephen J. Paul Kruger, president Of
the TransvaaI republic for the fourth time,
was born in Cape Colony in 1895 and ac-
conpanied his father with the emigrant
farmers across the Vaal in 1889. The Office
which he has held continually since 1883
brings with it salary of $40,0 900 year,
with house allowance of 81, 500.
General Maximoviteh, who has just been
assigned to the command of the Third
Army corps of Russia, is Sc years old, but
it still active General Prince Chtoherbat-
off, who is to command the Second corps,
is more than SO years old, and General
Dmitrovsky, who is to be at the head of
the Twentieth corps, has celebrated his
sixty-fourth birthday