Sires And Sons

SIRES AND SONS
 

Mayor Fleischmann, who has been elected in Cincinnati, has for many years given away 500 loaves of bread daily to the poor. 

It is reported that Marshall Field has offered to erect a museum on the Lake Front park in Chicago which will cost about $10,000,000.

F. M. Messenger, a mill agent in Grosvenordale, Conn., at $15,000 per year, has given up his work to preach the "holiness" doctrine.

The "Palmer boys." as Honore and Potter Palmer, Jr., of Chicago are called, are now engaged in booming a new town, East Chicago and Indiana Harbor, on Lake Michigan.

Victor Murdock, a newspaper man who will be one of the Kansas members of the next house at Washington, is credited with being the inventor of the baseball report in slang. 

In twenty-eight years' active service as a glass blower Isaac Jones of Clayton, N. J., has blown 3,214,848 bottles, a record probably unequaled by any one man in the United States.

For his five visits to America, his three trips to Australia and his journeyings in India and Africa General Booth is now saluted at home as "the most ubiquitous Englishman of our time."

Ex-President Cleveland will spend several weeks of the summer as a guest of James H. Eckels, former comptroller of the currency, at the Chicagoan's summer cottage at Oconomowoc, Wis. 

Thomas F. Folger, for forty years driver of the prison van at Boston, died the other day, leaving a handsome fortune. He was a great reader, but never in the course of his life was he known to buy a newspaper.

Judge John J. Jackson of the northern district of West Virginia has served the United States in a judicial capacity longer than any other judge in the country. He was appointed to his present office in 1861 and will soon have served forty-two years.