The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-05-31
MEN TALKED ABOUT.


What the Newspapers Say Of Them FITS
of Personal Gossip.
A nephew of Count Won Moltke is kill
ing rabbits in Australia
E. Berry Wallis friends say that he is
living illustration of the paradox, "Iiow
to be well dressed though married. .
Jacob w. Hoyt, of jackson, Mich, Is
one of the Oldest baggage masters In tho
country He has been smashing trunks
for thirty seven years
Cornelius vanderbilt's income from his
capital is said to be in the neighborhood
of $1,000, 900 a month, while that Of
William K is not far behind il.
The Prince of Wales wears a billycoclz
hat, smokes short pipe and drives about
in hired carriage when at Cannes or
Nice, and cuts everybody who attempts
to treat him as prince.
"My friends" said the French presi-
dent to the crowds who were CRYING
''Vive Carnot" on his recent tour. do
not say 'Vive Carnot, but 'Vive Ia Re-
publiquel'
mo meat for dinner, eh?'' qucried
Jacob Wall, as he sat down to his dinner
in Troy. ''Very well--I'l 20 aft%
some." That was one day eight years
ago, and he has not returned yet.
Gen. PreievalslSy, the Russian fill
buster, has set out with band of Cos
sacks for fhibet with the aim OF creating
a pretext for Russia to readjust her
boundaries in that part of the world.
Vladimir, the Greek Catholic bishop OF
Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, Is a
noticeable figure at San Francisco, which
has just become the seat of his diocese.
He is tall. straight and handsome speaks
English well, and is a graceful as well as
forcible' speaker. For eight years he
was a missionary in Japan.
Senator Butler, of South Carolina. is
direct descendant of the dukes of Ormond.
of Ireland, and he is entitled TO bear
coat of arms. One of his ancestors,
Pierce Butler, was an officer in the
British army before the revolution who
| took the side of the colonies in the strug-
gle for separation and afterwayd became
United States senator.
John Boyle O'Reilly wrote the poem
The School House Clock" while a pris-
oner in Arbor Hill prison, Dublin Tho
verses were written on a bit of brown
paper, and were called forth by clock
standing in a corridor of tho prison,
which was the fac-simile of the one that
licked in the old school house In a little
village near Drogheda when he was a
boy.
Capt. William Andrews fears inn
mense waves less than the whales in his
projected canoe trip across the Atlantic
| He says schools of whales. which are
tame, are wont to play dangerously uear
a craft that can be splintered by single
| blow of one of their broad tails To
guard against this he will carry a supply
of cartridges to frighten away the dis
agreeable companions.
A friend recently spoke to Louis Kos
suth of the flourishing condition OF Pesth,
| when the Hungarian exile said that it
almost broke his heart to hear of that
beautiful city and not be allowed to SEQ
it. The friend suggested that he might
there wearing blue goggles and a wig,
sfter the style of Gen. Boulanger. No."
was the reply. ''yet it is just possible that
| may see Hungary again. II Russia at
tacks my country | will go without a,
Wig or disguise. and will visit every viz
lage and every city, and give my right
arm in the service of my fatherland
a very close personal friend of Evarts
said the other day that it was astonish-
ing to him that the press had never rec
ognized the fact that illusions to his per-
sonal appearance, unless they are very
complimentary, wound him more deeply
than any other sort. OF criticism, no mat
ter how harsh. This friend said that in
the senator's college days his companions
were all aware that he prided himself
upon his Romanesque and classical APP
pearance, and in this respect his char
acter, if it has altered at all, has grown
stronger. Nothing pleases him so much
as compliments upon the contour of that
face which caricaturists have been SO very
free with for so many years.
Thirty years ago there was tremen-
dous contest, which was felt over almost
all of Europe, over the Jewish child
Mortara, whom the archbishop of Boz
logna claimed as the property of the Ro-
man Catholic church on the ground that
he had been baptized by serving maid.
The church prevailed and took the boy
from his parents. He has now reap
peared as an ascetio monk of extraor-
dinary eloquence, learning and fervor.
and has been preaching to great audi
ences near Madrid. The queen and court
have subscribed to help the convent
chapel he has built in the Basque high
lands. He is called Father Mortara lie
is canon of the Order of Saint Augustin.
and among other accomplishments he
speaks twenty-five languages.