The Inquisitor

.1 - itoD i the richest man in Cin; II is wealth is estiluated at frotn 00 to $13,000,000. The late xMarshal MacMithon made the jcuaintauce of his wife by saving her from i fire at the risk oL his own life. Milton H. Smith, president of the Louisville and Xashville, was at one time a . ntcnman at a railroad erossing. Professor Huxley now lives in Sussex, England, in a house which he calis Hoieslea, which curious name is said to be the ancien t form of his ownsurname. First Auditor Baldwiu smokes corncob pipes. No matter what time of day you visit his room in the treasury department at Washington you will find hirn smoking. Alex Hockaday recently celebrated on his farm in Harrison county, Ind., what he t-wears to have been his one hundred and fourteenth birthday. He has voted at every presidential election in this century. Att orney General Olney comes of a "fighting" Baptist family. He is not and never pretended to be an orator, but he speaka wit.h great force and deliberation, and as a lawyer ranks with the best at the Boston bav. Stephen Starnbuloff, Bulgaria's prime minister, was educated in Russia and rxüed because of liis dangerous intelligence. He is short in stature, but very vigorona physically and mentally, with strong force of character. Paul Bennevue is a physical wreek in a New Hampshire poorhouse. He has been a diplomat, editor, publisher, politician, orator aud banker. He began his public life in France as secretary to Alexander Durnas the eider. The first governor of California, Peter H. Burnett, celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday recently at his home in San Francisco. He went to California several years beüore the gold fever broke out, -wben San Francisco was a little town of 1,500 inhabitants. A Philadelphia paper credits ex-Senator Edmunds with regarding Philadelphia as the most patriotic and American of American cities, and with saying that it does his soul good just to walk around Independence hall and get a glimpse of the old Liberty bell. Joseph W. Morse, who was one of the originators of the system of printing theatrical posters from wooden blocks, and who was a cousin of Professor S. F. B. Morse of telegraph fame, celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday at his home in New York recently. John Lee Carroll, ex-governor of Maryland, is a most aristocratie looking old gentleman aud belongs to one of the finest of the Maryland families. He is the grandnephew of the first governor of Maryland and the great-grandnephew of the first Catholic archbishop of Baltimore. Marvin Hughitt, who controls the vast Chicago and Northwestern railway system, with its 10,000 miles of track, began his rarlway career by carrying water to construction hands on an Iowa line. He was then a boy of 14, and at 16 he was a station agent, with a salary of $35 a month. Major M. M. Clothier of Whatcom, Or., has a hickory cañe cut at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, in 1621, by Nathaniel Pierce, who came over in the Mayflower. The cane has been passed down to the eldest son or daughter for many generations, and carne to Major Clothier from his grandrnothe: Sarah Mason, who made the 1,700 pouud cheese which was given to President Jefferson.