Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-18
Notes of Notables.

| Professor Koch. the bacteriologist
! Professor Virchow as member of thu
Berlin Academy of Science.
| Captain Salvatore PiZZati of New
Orleans. has given $4,000 for the cree
| ton of an asylum and Industrial schoo
| for poor Italian orphans Of that city
| The project will be carried out by the
! Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart
an Italian charitable association.
The successor of Russell Sage in the
put and call market of Wall street is
said to be Amos NJ. Lyon, until recent
| ly all but unknown in the financial
world. Yet he is worth perhaps S25.-
100000 He is an old man now. He
! was born and bred on a farm and
seemingly never learned how to dress
in approved city style.
r. Peacock. an Egyptian railroad
man from AssiOut. is visiting this
country. He is locomotive superin-
tendent of the Egyptian state railways
and has come here at the request of
his government to inspect the Ameri-
ing some of the modern American
methods of transportation into his
country.
Unlike the Republican national con-
vention at Chicago, there was not 4
colored man or woman, or rather a
woman or colored man, as a dele
gate in the st. Louis convention. A
native of that city approached one of
the Tammany delegates and said:
Look here. | saw a coon down the
street with a Tammany badge on. Do
you have coons in Tammany Hail."
young man." replied the Tammany
politician. Eve allow in Tammany
Hall anything that wears pants and
can cast a vote. Cinnamon who wear
pa amas have been known to vote the
Tammany ticket"
The late grand duke of Mecklenburg-
StreltZ was totally blind for more than
half 4 century. He ruled forty-tive
years. His predecessor was a spend
thrift. who had left everything in great
confusion. The new duke began at
once to ecOnOmize i'm every way, and at
the time of his death he was n very
wealthy man. He urged his subjects
to follow his example. Economy be-
came his watchword for everything;
he disapproved of large families as
being antagOniStic to this principle
and whenever one of his courtiers had
an addition to his family he never fail
ed to direct attention to this fact
James j. Hill says that Philander
G. Knox. former attorney general,
cleaned up 100000 in the organization
of the United States Steel Corporation
which was task of only few months
William Nelson Cromwell'S fees are
the biggest ever earned by n lawyer
IN this or any other country. Eighteen
years ago he was a google eyed young
attorney in the office of Algernon S.
Sullivan, living in a very modest home
on Columbia Heights New York To-
day he is worth $4,000, 900, lives in a
palace in Forty-ninth street in win
ter and rusticates i'm a magnificent villa
at Seabright in summer. Mr.. Crom-
wells fee for adjusting the Panama
canal deal was $2.0OO.000.
j. Pierpont Morgan has a new
u,
who for twenty-six years was a New
York policeman and reputed to be the
most stalWart man on the Broadway
squad. Mcpermotts duties consist in
guarding the entrance to the banking
offices of y. p. Morgan & Co. and
obtaining the necessary identification
of callers before admitting them to the
inner Office. where the desks of the
hrm's members are located. The per-
son who guards Mr.. Morgan's door is
expected to tell at glance whether an
applicant is eligible for admission.
He must BE able to discriminate be-
tween fanatic and a vender Of bonds
and to tell book agent from a conf
Dental broker.
Julius II. and Junius N. Benham,
probably the oldest twins in the United
States. celebrated the eighty-seventh !
anniversary of their birth at summer
resort near Bridgeport. Conn.,. last Sat- |
urday. They are natives of Middle !
bury. that state, in and near which |
place they own a good deal of property. |
Both are more than 6 feet tall, stand |
very straight and. except for their
snow white hair and boards, there is
nothing about them to Indicate how
many years they have lived. The Ben
hams come of long-lived people. their
grandfather having lived to be "a years
Oh, their father, Trueman Benham
was SO and their mother Sc when death
called them. and their only brother
died at the age of Sc.
The richest spinster in New York city