The record., 1899-02-09
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Australia. started in life ON 4 salar,
of $50 per annum. \ short time
ago he took up G.5o. 900 of treas
ury bills to assist the government.
\ Partisan statistician announces
that there have been thirty-ninc
changes of Cabinets during the twen-
~ eight years of the life of the
French Republic, involving $50
Ministers.
The Rev. Dr W. ID. Marshall of
the Methodist Church is the latest
claimant to Il safe trip To Thibet
lie says he stayed there for eight
months and converted several ma
tivcs. The Grand Llama receil ed
him as an hOnOrcd guest.
David NJ Wilson, who died in Phil
adelphia recently. followed the curl
ouS fad of shaking hands with every
Mayor of the city on the day of his
Inauguration. 4 practice which he
INDUCED for almost seventy years
without break.
Alfred \. Winslow, United States
Consul at Liege, Belgium, enter
tained number of friends at an old
fashioned New England dinner,
at Brussels, on Christmas dav.
Every thing served was american,
even to the wines, which were inn
ported from California.
Johaathan Norcross, who died ct
Atlanta the other day. was an abolu-
ZIONIST from Maine and settled in
Atlanta sixty years ago. He was
the Republican nominee for Govern
or Of Georgia in 1870, when he orig
mated the Lily-Whitc idea, which
has divided white and black Repub-
licans ever since.
\ former master of Ely Work
house in England has just been adj
mittcd as a pauper inmate to the in
stitution over which Nsmerly
re- idef Such an j aid
il;A,. pfe,.~..s...,,
dickens anticipated it in
Twist in the fate which he provided
for Mr.. Bumble.
The largest private library in the
United States is said to belong to
Colonel Reuben +. Durrctt. of
Louisville, Kentucky, which con-
taias over 50, 600 volumes, collected
during sixty years. Books ON the
history of the West predominatc.
and among them Colonel Roosevelt
worked while preparing his "Win-
ming of the West"
Queen Victoria has been quite out
done by Emperor Francis Joseph in
the matter of the bestowal of titles,
orders, and decorations at a jubilee
In three days Austria's ruler gave
away 4,5oo of these baubles, and for
weeks past the two firms in Vienna
which make them have been working
night and day in order to catch up
with the demand.
The Governor of Arkansaw is
named Jones. The Lieutenant
Governor of Mississippi is named
Jones. The Lieutenant-Govcrnor of
Ohio is named Jones. The Attor-
ney-General of Nevada is named
Jones. Since Senator Morrill's
death there has been 40 "father of
the Senate" two members having
served exactly the same period; one
Of them is John =. Jones.
Nj. Vernon, the French engraver,
has received an orded from the King
of Denmark for medallion of
Queen Louise, to prepared from
the best of the family photographs.
Small reproductions ofthe memorial
are to be prepared for distribution in
Denmark. The Queenis represent
ed in profile, the inscription record
ing her name and rank, motto "'Vir-
tute Ct iideItate" and the dates Sept.
7, 1917, and Sept. ae, 1898.
Aspall Hall, whose name Lord
Kitchener has Incorporated in his
title, is one of the finest old oranges
remaining in the eastern counties of
England. Itisa two-story building,
moated in the old style, and has
long family record attaching to itcn
the Sirdar's meters side Her.
femiiy came into possession of it just
200 years ago. Before that it was
the residence of the Gotham family
from the time of that Lady Gotham
whose husband, Sir John Oldcasile,
was burlt as a Lollard in Henry "