The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-05-08
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

| JAMES GORDON BENNETT is SAID to
have won $4,000 on Parole.
SENATOR WHITE, of Maryland, is six
feet in height and weighs 1853 pounds.
ROBERT BONNER keeps special
veterinary surgeon, who is paid $1,000
year.
SENATOR W1THERs, of Virginia, is five
feet ten inches in height and weighs 1876
pounds.
SENATOR VOORHEES,, of Indiana, is six
feet one inch in height and weighs 10 {
pounds.
| SENATOR THURMAN, of Ohio, is five
feet ten and half inches in height and
weighs 200 pounds.
SENATOR WADLEIGH, of New Hamp-
shire, is five feet II inches in height an d
weighs 203 pounds.
SENATOR WINDOW, of Minnesota, s
five feet eleven inches in height and
weighs 1913 pounds.
JOHN HABBERToN, of "Helen's Babies"
fame, is said to be writing play on
New York politics
Mr.. BANCROFT, the historian, seems
very feeble this spring, as he rides
about Washington.
SENATOR WALLACE, of Pennsylvania,
is tive feet and three-fourths inches in
height and weighs 164 pounds.
PIT. BARNUM says that a red-hot iron
will cool an elephants temper quicker
than kind words and soft answers.
SENATOR GORDON, of Georgia, owns
sheep-farm in that State containing 49,
OO0 acres. 1t is managed by his son.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN resigns all
claim to the Presidency in 1880, and
thus clears up one feature of the con-
test.
KING HUMBERT's physicians have
forbidden him to smoke, telling him
that it will kill him. But he keeps
right on.
REPRESENTATIVE Newberry, of Michi-
gan, is said to be the wealthiest man in
Congress. He had an income last year
of $250,OOO.
The Prime Minister of England is
Mr.. Disraei, Hebrew, and the Prime
Minister of France is Mr.. Washington,
an Enghshman.
ALEXANDER FL. STEPHENS was so poor
when he first commenced the practice
of law that he had to live on S. a month.
No wonder he only weighs 96.
The royal chap that Queen Victoria
has been down to Italy to look at, with
view to finding a mate for her daugh-
ter Beatrice, is a cross-eyed and pug
nozed brother of King Humbert.
PRESIDENT HAYES lately told friend
that his private income is $4,000 year,
and that this, along with his Presiden-
tial salary of $4,000, is regularly ex-
pended in keeping up things" about
the White House.
Mr.. A. A. BONNER, the eldest son of
Mr.. Robert Bonner, the editor of the
Ledger, is about to wed Miss Jeanette
Fitch, the daughter of prominent In
diana lawyer. The marriage will take
place in Cincinnati.
AT the postal-card factory, Holyoke,
Mass, designs are being made for new
two-cent international card, and double
sized two-cent card for domestic use.
The former will be issued about July i,
and the latter next fall.
MARK TWAIN is in Paris writing an
ether funny book, while living in strict
retirement. Oliver Wendell Holmes
once declared that he didn't dare to
write as funny as he could, but Mark
Twain is said to be doing his best this
time.
DAVID ORDWAY, the eccentric Proc
torsville (Vt.) man, who had his funeral
sermon preached last summer, has now
procured his shroud and coffin, having
the latter trimmed at his direction, and
had them taken to his house. He is 81
years old and quite unwel.
II AM not" wrote Mr.. Ralph Waldo
Emerson, the other day, in condition
to make visits or to take any part in
conversation. Old age has rushed up
on me in the last year and tied my
tongue, and hid my memory, and thus
made it duty to stay at home"