Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-12-29
Personal Notes.


c. M. Alexander the singing evangcl-
list, arrived in New York on Sunday.
He Will join Rev. DR.. Torrcy.
Mayor-elect Fitzgerald, of Boston,
will make an effort to give. Boston IL
new City Hall. 1t is suggested to place
the building on the Public Garden.
EX-Governor Leedy. of Kansas, is
now Mayor of Valdez, III Alaska. He
is practising law there, projecting Il
railrca1 and has copper mines in pros
pect.
ON Monday John Il. Chanccy celebrat-
ed his tiftieth Christmas as an employ
ee Of the National House of Represent
atives. He is an assistant doorkeeper.
Admiral Dewey sent a Christmas mes
sage to the officers and men of the Am
merican Navy throughout the world in
lime to reach every American Warship
some time Christmas Day.
John d. Rockefeller Jr., after u
years absence from instructing his
Sunday school class in the Fifth Aven-
ue Baptist Church. New York. on ac-
count of ill-health, will resume next
Sunday.
EX-Rcpresentative II. Kirke Portet
who represented Pittsburg in the last
Congress, will make Il tour of the world
to raise S1,500,OOO for Baptist missions.
This money will be used to endow
schools in foreign lands.
l.. Y. Hardness, the Standard Oil
man. has purchased the beautiful home
site in Pasadena, Cal, known as Car
melita." on the grounds of which is
bungalow in which Helen Hunt Jack
son wrote part of Ramona
Very Rev. j. J. Ryan, president Of
st. Patrick's College, Thurlcs. Ireland,
is visiting Archbishop Glennon of St.
Louis. He is on his way 10 the PhiliP-
pines on an important mission. He is
u distinguished educator of Ireland.
L. +. Ayson, commissioner and chief
inspector of fisheries of New Zealand.
who is in this country to study Ameri-
can methods of fish culture and to OBJ
tain whitefish and salmon eggs for New
Zealand waters. is in Washington.
The Board Of Curators of the Mis-
souri, University have decided to cX-
tend an invitation to President Roose-
welt to attend the college commence
ment next June, and receive from the
school the honorary degree of LII. d.
All Paris is reading and discussing
the memoirs of the Philadelphia dentist,
DR.. Evans, the friend of Napoleon III,
which have just been published, and
which contain Il most excellent descrip-
tion of the last days of the second EN-
pire.
Scnor Don Felipe Pardo, the new
Peruvian Minister to the United States.
has arrived in New York. He is Il
brother of the President of Peru,
which shows how much that ruler ap-
preciateS the necessity of having at
Washington an able representative.
James b. Mclaughlin is the only
member of the District of Columbia bar
with two widely different and distinct
professions. He is an excellent lawyer
and an ordained minister Of the Meth
odiSt Episcopal Church and regularly
breaches to Washington congregations.
Mrs. Drusilla Hall Johnson. who died
Sunday at Northampton, Mass, was
believed to be the oldest true daughter
Of thcltevolutiOn. Her maternal grand
father and her father both served for
several years, and the latter was pres
cEt at the execution of Major Andre.
Prof. Edward Allen, at one time an
authority on botany, has been living for
seventeen years on the southwestern
slope of Mount Rainier. miles from a
settlement. He has pursued lis studies
there and his specimens of rare plants
from the sides of the snow-capped peak
have been sent to many Eastern uni
VerSitieS and botanical gardens.
Peter Larson. of Montana, is doubt
less the richest Scandinavian in Amer
lea, and probably the richest man in
the Northwest next to Senator w. \.
Clark. He is Il Dane by birth and for
the first 20 years Of his life was that of
an ordinary peasant lad in Denmark.
He came to America empty handed and
ignorant of the language, beginning
as a dock laborer.
DR.. William L. Phillips, formerly di-
rector of the Texas Mineral Survey,
has discovered III a remote part of the
Terlingua quicksilver district, near
Marathon, Texas. the second largest
crack in the earth in the United States.
1t is fourteen miles long and no less
than 700 feet wide. and about 1900
feet deep. The crack is to be explOr-
ed as soon as an expedition can be or
ganiZed.