Living A Retired Life

LSpecial Correspondence.] New Yoex, Jan. 7. - No living man who has ñgiired prominently in the politics of the state of Ñew York is seen or heard of less these days than ex-Crovemor A. B. Cornell. Old friends that used to know him intimately and be conversant with his opinions and interests are forced to confess that they have no knowledge of either now. They had heard that he bad gone to pieces financially and that he was doing nothing; thejT had heard, too, that his health was poor and that ho was unütted to meet the exertions of active business. Whether or not he lived in New York they would not teil. Bnt the truth is Mr. Cornell is not an invalid, nor is he without oeeupation. Now that he has withdxawn from public life and has no idea of ever entering it again nnder any circumstances, he cultivates the seclusion of private life. He has .so often been the victim of misrepresentation by reporters that he does not care to see them, much less talk with them. He resolutely refuses to address political meetings or to take any conspicuons part in the public denionstratious of the party that honored him so conspicuously. Still he takes an interest in politics. During the recent campaign in New York he might be seen occasionall y at the Republican headquarters in the Fifth Avenue hotel. The glinipses of the man that were obtained on these occasions indicated that he is in the best of health and that he has aged but little since he was ,2;overnor of the Empire State. His hair has, however, blanched a little since thfeii; he is perhaps a little stouter, but he keeps his face as smoothly shaven as ever; he has the same quiet and self reliant nian::er; he speaks with the same dfchberation; he has the same inscrutable features that give no indication of his thonghts or f eelings. Air. Cornell has not boon a resident of New York city for some time, nor ha3 he had an office here bearing his name. His home is in Yonkers with one of his soas. who is a lawyer on Broadway. It is in this office, too, that he transacts most of his business and receives those that have occasion to meet him in town. His hours aro short- from 1 1 until 2. It is not easy to find him for anothor reason - the various interests that occupy his atteiitioii frequcntly cali hiia away from town, and his absences are more or less prolonged accordiug to circumsterifes. As to the natnre of these intereste and where they are located Mr. Coniell himself refuses absohitely to speak. But it is understood that they comprise real estáte, railroads and manut'apturing. Althoiigh lie is not belicved to b'e as wealthy as lie was once or possess the power in íinancial cii'cles that he wielded a few years ago, he is not by any means a poor man. Fhanklin Smith. The famous salt lake of Aaliü Paakai, nea-r Honolulú, occupies the cráter of an ininienso tula cone, whose ejecta covers seyeral square miles, and are especially rernarkable for containing numerons aggregations of crystalline grains of pure olivine.