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Show I Georgia's Polyc't Nonocenatian. CoL James Edward Calhoun, one of the richest men in this section of tho country, and who is said to own 99,000 acres of land. Is one of the finest educated educat-ed men in the south. He was once a naval officer, and acquired such a knowledge knowl-edge of fifteen different languages that he could speak and write them fluently. He imperfectly knew ten other languages. lan-guages. He has not an English book in his house, but spends all his time reading read-ing works in some foreign language. He Is now 92 years old, and is in remarkably good health for his age. Elberton (Ga.) Star. |