Show PERSONAL MENTION i Six Presidents Jefferson Madison Monroe John Quincy Adams Van Buron 1 and Huclmnan served as Socrotarv oC I < uc11nnnSrcd State Gen Grant was Secretary of War 1 I lnc Interim and performed tho duties of that olNco for live month 1 Victor Herbert the American composer Ib very nervous when at his work Tho slightest nol C disturbs him and eonue quontly ho does moat of hIt composing In the small hours of the night e S A Senator McComuq of Maryland mourns tho lo1 of a handsome watch which was I taken from his pocket while ho was at Antletam with the Presidential party Ho took Mr Mqltlnlcys arm to escorfJlm I through the crowd nnd In tho crUsh his pocket was picked The timepiece was 1 I purchased for 2ro lawyers leo which he I received jut o before his marriage p I U There ia a legend about lie Senate i that Gen Hawloy for ton or chamber I minutes In si speech once spoke twelve t minute Tho average speed 225 words a a not roach In speeches does of Senators rarely 1 letters 110 words and in dictating lelers reaches 100 words S S S 1 Capt Francis Martin of 15D First street I Zlarln D tiolt the oldest American naval olllcor I alive has just colebra tod hiM oiu hundredth I hun-dredth birthday He was Second Ijicuton drecth before Admiral Dowry was limit six years I Wlr born He entered the Government mTvlte In 1831 and has boon In It ivor since ret 181 from A nil row lag I hl first commission his Jackson A month before iittilnlnt majority ho wllnossod the fun rnl of Na Bonnparto the VOMKO 1 on which lie poloon WIIH servIng Donllt hlvln put Inlo t Jlckiia for vulcr e In the oourse of a speech at the recent I gonoral council of tho Roformod Eplncopal church at Baltimore Bishop Steven II Ballmmp U do rather astonished his coworkcrs by rtthr n I tobacco daring his fondness for smoke he said and I Bhall continue to Hmoko I dont bollovo tho use of tobacco hCI bad it has been doscrlbed I co Is I as bat as I It < 1 believe It IK nil a piece of will worship Cod luf never Bald anyvhiro that wo shall not br l mlnlstirs of his go pol If Wf lJ hal It God prnxldod for oory nett l In nature anti T thank God for my cigar I |