The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-12
MEN OF NEWSPAPER NOTE.

MEN OF NEWSPAPER NOTE.
Personal Paragraphs Clipped from the
Exchanaes-stray Bits OF Gossip.
Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon sometimes wears
single barreled eyeglass.
Swinburne, the poet, is scarcely five
feet tall and is very shy of women.
Charles Pratt, the Brooklyn million
aire, has given 81, 800. 900 for the estab-
lishment of manual training school in
Brooklyn.
An Arapahoe Indian of full blood, now
taking post graduate course at Hobart
college, is a regularly ordained clergy
man of the Protestant Episcopal church.
He is known as Rev. Sherman Coolidge.
Joaquin Miller is living at present in a
little redwood house, about twelve feet
high by something like thirty feet in
length, perched away up ON the side of q
naked and rocky mountain near Oakland,
CAL, at height of several hundred feet
above the sea.
Mr.. Vanderbilt, just before leaving
Paris, had portrait of his child taken
by Chaplin, and it was SO pretty that the
proprietors of the Bon Marche thought it
worth while to put it on their confection
box covers and to copyright the design.
The picture represents a little boy play
ing with kittens.
Thomas Starr King used TO tell that
one Of his kinsnaep Yas much opposed TO
his entef5ng tn6 fect0fe Held, and was in
clined to belittle his abilities. So one
night DIR. King invited him TO hear one
of his most brilliant discourses. and at
the door asked him what he thought of
it. "Waal," was the cheering reply,
''you warn't half as tejus as thought
| you'd be-"
Kaiser Wilhelm used to sign himself
"Wilhelm: Imp Rex" and every one
wondered thereat. Why not in full,
"Imperatcr ct Rexr' Or, il abbrevi-
ated, why not ~. R.?" He voluntarily
explained it one day to one of his minis
ters. Il sign myself in that way,' said
he, because feel that am only rarity
an emperor, while know that am al
together a king
Andrew j. Blackbird, son of the IA
nous Indian chief Blackhawk, living at
Horlor Springs, Mich, has written
history of the Ottawa and Chippewa
tribes that will soon be published Black
bird is a well educated man. having been
| diligent student at the Ypsiianti Nor
NAL school in his youth. He expects also
to publish some day treatise on the Ian
guage of his tribe.
Gen. Adam Badeau is thus photo
graphed: ''He is stout, little man, but
five feet six in height, with almost as
much paunch as height. He is nos at
| tractive, has a large. full face, a good
square head. peevish lower jaw and
mouth, near sighted eyes, which neces-
states wearing spectacles. There is
nothing unpleasing, but he is certainly
not a handsome man."
Baron Hirsch, the eminent banker Of
Vienna, is the first Hebrew ever raised to
the Austrian peerage. The baron do
mated $50, 900, 900 for the relief of his
unfortunate co-religionists as a commem-
Grafton of his son Lucien, who died last
year. The Emperor Francis Joseph, in
recognition of this display of princely
generosity, admitted the banker into the
chamber of the Austrian seigneurs.
To show how w. w. Corcoran's known
benevolence subjected him to all kinds Of
impudent begging letters. There was
one which he received with his large
mail one morning, which made him
laugh, and he showed it. The writer
said she was q young girl who had never.
had silk dress, and that she had heard
| of his kindness and generosity, and she
would be SO happy if he would ser,d her
q blue silk dress. He had it bought and
| o1f ko f<Ik L.
the request, yet he could not resist the
pleasure of imagining the girls delight
In owning and wearing blue silk dress.
A. G. Hobbs, of Bridgeport. well
known Connecticut horseman, used to be
better known as the Yankee Lock
Picker" He picked the famous Bramah
lock at the Worlds Fair in London in
1858 in the presence Of the queen and the
Duke Of Wellington. Rramah had Of
fered 200 guineas to any one who would
| pick his lock. The same year Mr.. Hobbs
opened a French lock in London in Ave
| minutes and set it to a combination that
bafiied the maker himself. The improve
ments in locks in late years, particularly
in this country, have revolutionized safe
making and produced locks which even
the Yankee lock picker can't pick.
Senior Canovas, the Spanish statesman,
is short, awkwardly built, ugly featured,
squints violently, and is popularity known
in Madridene society a. 1.-The monster"
Moreover, he is exceedingly passionate,
strong tempered, and sarcastic, and makes
no pretense Of Disgusting his unmitigated
contempt for men whom, no matter what
their rank may be, he treats AZ interiors.
In land where all are eloquent, his ora
tory stands forth pre-eminent, and as his
torian, author, litterateur and critic, he is
without rival in Spain. Although he
has frequently filed the Office of prime
minister, yet he remains comparatively
poor man.
1t Is related of the late s'Tom" Potter,
the railroad magnate, that dur;ng tho
war, as sergeant Of cavalry coicpany,
he was detailed to take prisoner from
the camp to Fort Leavenworth, end in
company with private started " N his
charge. There were only two hories to
the three men, and on reaching assollen
river it was something Of problem just
how to get across with the prisoner.
Finally the private plunged In on one of
the horses, the prisoner holding or to it's
tail, and Potter ON the horse in the rear.
s'You see," he said, II commanded the
situation. II the fellow let go ] could
have shot hin, as he went down sfrcan -