The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The Oldest man In Bavaria is Peter Huter
of Hasheim. Iye was 1o2 years old on
February 18th.
Judge j. Il. W. Addison. who was the
prosecuting counsel in the famous May
brick case, has just died at London.
Nine. schumann- Heink recently had her
life insured for 100000, $4,000 OF which Is
made payable to her children. Before she
took out this policy she was insured for
ss5. 900
For liles-o -the-valley vicar in carmar-
then draws $4,000 from London dealer.
while an old lady In Berkshire is said to
make n't.rly $1,000 yearly out OF Marcehal
Mel roses.
On the state railways in Germany the
coaches are painted according to the coo %
of the tickets OF their respective classes.
First-cass coaches are painted yellow. sec
ond-class green and third-class white.
Because of an old cancerous sore, William
Hobart Hare, the venerable Episcopal bishop
of his right eye in st. Luke's Hospital, Ncw
York City.
It is recalled that James Bryce is one of
the very few men who have set foot upon
the top of Mount Ararnt. This was nearly
thirty years ago. The mountain Is over
Post.
Cartridges are taken as change all over
Abyssnia at a rate usually OF ten to the
dollar. The cap must be unchanged, the
round the bullet must be in n state of per-
feet preservation.
John p Rideout. of Lewiston, Me-. aged
seventy-five, is veteran master builder.
He claims to have cut one hundred shin
frames and built ffty-two vessels; they
were from one ton to l.500 tons, The
largest, the Sea King. was 1900 tons.
| BY the election OF Lord Nlchelham (for-
merly Herbert Stern) as an alderman OF the
City Of London the Jews again have repre-
| sentative in the London Council, and may
look forward TO the induction OF another
Jewish Lord Mayor.
| Three of the younger generation of the
Vanderbilt family are serving the New Yor
/ Central. Alfred G. Vanderbilt has his desk
| in the financial department. Cornelius fSds
his greatest interest in the shop and con
struction department. and is said to Nnow
a railroad from the roadbed up. His cousin
| William X. Vanderbilt. Jr.. has combined
both the financial and practical training.
1t is not generally known that Howard
Gould and his wife Formerly Kath.c,ne
Clemens, actress) have been living apar,
since last September; he ut the Walaorf-
! Astoria and she at GOULD Castle, which
/ however. she Is to abandon this week. Whtr
Gould established himself at the Waldorf
| Astoria he agreed, it is said. to send his
Wife check for $4,000 the first Of each
month. Mrs, Could later thought this wa:
not enough, and the check for the last'twt
months has been $4,000,
James Fitzgerald, judge of the Supreme
| Court of New York, who presided Ut tht
Thaw trial was born In Ireland in 1857
An intimate friend says OF him: His key
| note is force, There Is force in his strn;h
stare his firm set jaw and oven In the in
sstent bristle of his clipped nustache, An'
yet his gentleness--that certain adjunct .
all true tustico--hns more than once move
the admiration OF tho spectators of the lat
nerNe-wrecking drama and the women q
the trial have had reason many times ,c b
thankful for his native courtesy"