The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-19
MEN OF NOTE.
Bits Of Interesting Personal Gossip Culled
from the Newspapers.

DisHiaTCk has mania f0r getune
weighed frequently.
Alexander Dumas is said to be the rich
est writer in the world.
Kaiser William has given orders that
the public celebration of the victory at
Sedan should cease.
M. Paul Blouet, MAX O'Rell, " is pre-
pairing lecture on Americans for tour
Of Great Britain.
| Chief Justice Fuller is far from tall,
but his new gown of Office took more silk
in construction than the dress of a socie-
ty woman.
Uncle Elias Gibson, of Kilbourne, Ills,
who is nearing his Goth year. has the dis
tinction of having killed ninety-two
wolves since the war, record that no
other Illinois man can even approach.
Gen. William 7. Sherman seems to
have not the slightest fear of death, and
talks of it sometimes in an off hand way
that is extremely weird. Not long after
Sheridan's funeral Sherman was speak
ing to friend of the many prominent
officers Of the late war who had died.
IL shall have to hurry up" remarked
Sherman, land die pretty soon, or there
will be nobody but militia to bury me.
Professor Bonney, the great geologist,
is described as man of some fifty
autumns, with rather thin face, splen-
didly developed Uranium, which is nearly
bald, and darkish beard, tina: is now
undergoing the process of grizzling. Pro-
&c 30 o1 tho J;,,a
stature. His voice is naturally gentle,
but he can command peremptory and de-
cisive tones when the occasion requires
He wears spectacles.
Another wonderful blind man has
made his appearance in the newspapers.
His name is Alden F. Hays and he lives
near Pittsburg, Pa. Mr.. Hays keeps q
coal yard, and he conducts the entire
business himself. He writes all his let
tiers on type writing machine, but he
keeps his books with pen and ink. He
walks all about the town by himself, and
without the help of cane, and on Sum
days he plays the organ in the Presby-
terian church. Mr.. Hays is son Of
Gen. Alexander Hays, who lost his life
in the battle of the Wilderness.
jefferson Davis home at Beauvoir,
Miss, is model of the old time archi-
lecture of the far south. The house
rests on large brick pillars, eighteen feet
about the earth. and is surrounded by
deep verandas supported by Tuscan pill
lars. Wide glass doors open into hall
that is twenty feet wide and extends
quite through the house to the latticed
veranda in the rear. On the grounds
there is vineyard, and in the beautiful
garden grow orange and fig trees and all
kinds of tropical flowers.
Father O'Sullivan, who left New York
city short time ago for Florida, and
died at Tampa of yellow fever, travelled
extensively through Europe and was
with the British army in Africa dur
ing the war with the Zulus. In one en-
gagenent where, through an unfortunate
blunder. one portion of the British force,
began firing ON detachment of their
own men, Father O'Sullivan volunteered
to run the gauntlet and inform the at
lacking party of their mistake. For this
act of bravery he received gold medal
from Queen Victoria and was promoted
to the rank of major. He had many
friends in America who will learn of his
death with sorrow.
Justice Horace Gray, of the supreme
court, is putting the finishing touches to
the quaintest new house in Washington.
1t is reproduction in brick and stone
and on double scale of the ordinary
New England farm house. with its high
pitched roof and overhanging caves 1t
is perfectly plain and rigidly rectangular,
and attracts more eyes than its more or
namental and conventional neighbors.
What did you build such house as
that fora'' asked society woman of the
tall and handsome bachelor justice the
other day. For my library. madam"
he replied, with his stiff, old fashioned
bow His library is as dear to him as the
apple of his eye. His sister keeps his
house-he keeps his library. There is no
other law library like it in the United
States, except, of course, the all COM
National Law library in the
old supreme court room in the basement
Of the Capitol.
When Bill Nye, the humorist, passed
through Chicago recently, he did not tell
a funny story nor crack joke that was
caught by his friends. Nye is jovial
and cordial fellow. but he allows his
funny sayings to enter the world by his
pen more than by his mouth. The diff
ference in financial returns from the two
methods is evident The caricatures of
himself that illustrate Nye's funny stories
are excellent representations. barring the
few exaggerated qualities. The bald
head, smoothly shaven face and gem
orally cadaverous expression behind
pair of spectacles are all there in the ?
original article. Bill Nye is bright
ooking man. He is less than forty years !
I'D. tall and thin. His complexion is
sandy and his hair very thin His dark
yes are bright. and the prominent lower
Jaw, SO smooth and regular in outline,
has the habit of moving itself down at
and assuming comical posi-
ion that is about the only humorous
hing in Nye's address. His good nature
$ never failing. There is nothing of the
lude about Bill Nye. He is too thin to
lave his clothes fit him very well, and
90 fond of assuming the easiest attitude
'e can find in lounging about to main