The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-07-17
PERSONAL MENTION.
Facts Not Generally Known Abont An.
thors. Journalists and Politicians.

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never laughed out loud in his life.
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN, of Ohio, has
deep-set eyes, and is restless in his ways.
VANDERBILT never opens book, but his
horses aud stables help to freshen up his
intellect
SEcRErARy.oF.SrArE FRELINGuUysEN's
face is always clearly -shaven, and his ex-
preston passive as cancels.
GOVERNOR Robe, of Maine, wears
swallow-tail coat, and is immensely popu-
lar with the farmers of his State.
john JACOB AsroR, when seeking amuse-
ment, climbs to the top of his house, and
banners away at mechanical inventions
KAISER WILLIAM, of Germany, has
great adherence of tobacco One of his |
peculiarities is the most rigid economy in |
the use Of wri ting paper and envelopes.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELDS commanding APP
pearance is in such marked contrast to the
slim figure of Cyrus w Field, that he is
sometimes called the latter's "big brother"
DAVID II. MASON is one of the best
known writer's in the West on the tariff
and kindred subjects. He has long been
contributor to the editorial columns of the
articles have been widely copied.
A. b. DARLING, who made large fort
une out of the Fifth Avenue hotel, III New
York, now owns IA large stock.farm in New
Jersey. He recently sold "Bonha'S
| Daughter" Jersey COW, to eN-Mayor
| Henry l.. Pierce, OF Boston, for $500.
Mr.. JOSEPH HATToN is really the author
of Henry lrving's suppression of Amer
| ica," the actors only part in the book
| having been to talk while Mr.. llatton re
corded his words. Tue rest of the story is
partly condensed from American papers,
and partly devoted to brief description
Of journeys and performances.
LOUISA DIX LA RAMEE, whose novels,
written under the name OF "Ouida," have
made her famous the world over, lives
in Florence, Italy. She is tall and we'll
formed, and her figure is striking. He's
eyes are light and her hair yellow and album
dant. She is worth about half-a-million
dollars, all of which has been made from
Ter writings.
SENATOR JOHN A. LoGAN's wife attends
to the greater part of her husbands cor
respondence. Mrs. Logan on many days
either dictates or writes over one hundred
letters. She is by far the best-posted pol.
tician of any of her lady contcmpo-
raries. She never makes an enemy il
il is possible to avoid it. She is very pop
ular everywhere.
Hon. john BRIGHT, whether by within or
ignorance, is always represented by the
pictorial caricaturists as dressed II
Quaker costume, and with a single eye
glass in his eye He dresses in an ordi
nary cut black frock coat and waistcoat
and dark tweed trousers He wears
plain gold watch chain, and carries pail
of double eyeglasses, used only for read
ing.
EDMUND DE GoNcoURr, the veteran nov
elist, says that adventures and all sue
matchmaking machinery have been use
7 up by the great imaginations of the begii
+, ming of the century; and his opinion
/, that the last revolution the novel will ha,
+ to pass through in order to become I'll
Il great vehicle of modern thought will ha,
q been achieved when it is made into boo
" of pure analysis.
b CoNGREssMAN JONATHAN CHACE,
io Rhode Island, is "a short, spare man, wit
thin black beard, white face and bla,
hair. He always wears u suit of immac
I; late broadcloth, with immense skirts
70 the coat, and an old-fashioned blat
~ choker on the expanse of white bosom
:, About the Capitol and on tho streets |
% looks like figure from fashiou-plate
s. half century ago. and in the House
~ never seems to care much about what 90,
on.
t, GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND is not Il
=, ways reliable in what he writes, but
Z, would find it difficult to write any thiI
= that would not be interesting and read
e. bic. In the great flood of Especial co
Al respondence" which he has for many yea
ID poured through the columns of Americs
dailies, he has oftentimes been accused
making excussiOHs from the demain
4 fact into tho regions Of fancy. and of dra'
lie ing on his INA x ination for the suhst an Ga
ID his statements. Still, "Gath" never lac
n. for readers.
$, RUSSELL SAGE receives the interview
~ with open arms. Al his desk, attired in
~ one dollar and twenty II ve-cent coat and
&c ten-cent nscktie, the millionaire cenvsrs
al ronfteltis1y, inteiligently and pleasaI
e. ". His good nature makes him excee
IL ingly popular with newspaper me
Sometimes he is button holed OH Broa
way as he energies hraN ms oHice, am
then invites the interviewer ~ secOrnpa1
!" him up tho street, expressing. as they pr
- coed, his views on the condition of stoc.
&c or any other subjst
y CONGRESSMAN HOLMAN, Of Indiana, is
strict temperance man. Hot tea is his
Ia vorte beverage. While attending t
40 sessions OF Congress. his regula lunch
bread and butter nnd tea. He comes in
the Capitol restaurant at n regular hou
sits down II u regular table, as near
N. it as he can, and always in the same &C
ho nor of the room, and always takes Il
same things. The waiter, who never ge
'S anything from him, always knows VIII
nc to order as soon as he sees the Jud
40 coming in the door.
SO The widow of President Polk is nc
tn eighty years old, and resides in Nashvil
g Tenn. In society, and fond OF it, Nj
n Polk has never yet accepted an invitati
since her husbands death, though wi