The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-10-18
MEN OF NOTE.
Bito Of Interesting Personal Gossip Culled
from tho Newspapers.

A&Aso Va AuetEebtAnS EcISonA1 OrO98lp Culkeo
from the Newspapers.
Bismarck has a mania for gettins
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
SHdan should cease.
M. Paul Blouet, "Max O'Rell y 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 socie-
ty woman.
Uncle Elias Gibson, of Kilbourna. nls.,
who is nearing his 90th year, has the dis
tinction of having killed ninety-two
wolves since the war, a record that no
ether Illinois man can even approach.
Gen. William T. Sherman seems to
have not the slightest fear of death, and
talks Of it sometimes in an OFF band way
that is extremely weird. Not long after
Sheridan's funeral Sherman was speak
ing to friepd Of tho mapy proninent
officers Of the late var Who had died.
n shall have TO hurry up, "rerpaSked
Sherman, .aud die pretty>Soon. q there
will be nobody but militia to bury me.''
Professor Bonney, the great geologist,
is described as a man of some fifty
autumns, with rather thin face, splen-
didly developed cranjum, which is nearly
bald, and darkish beard, tina. is now
undergoing the process of grizxling. Pro-
bssor Bonney h cf aDoat tlle ordinary
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 be lives
near Pittsburg, Pa. Mr.. Hays keeps a
coal yard, and he conducts the entire
business himself. He writes all his let
ters 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 a cane, and ON Sun
days he plays the organ in the Presby-
terian church. Mr.. Hays is son of
0cIs VIII IOob Ills lll0
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 a hall
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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 a 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-
gagement where, through an unfortunate
blunder, one portion of the British force
began firing on detachment Of their
own men, Father o O'Sullivan volunteered
to run the gauntlet and inform the at
tacking party of their mistake. For this
act of bravery he received a 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 a reproduction in brick and stone
| and on q double scale of the ordinary
| New England farm house, with its high
pitched roof and overhanging caves. Il
is perfectly plain and rigidfy rectangular
| and attracts more eyes than its more or
! namental and conventional neighbors
'sWhat did you build such house q.
| that for?' asked society woman of the
tall and handsome bachelor justice the
other day. "For my library, madam,
| he replied, with bis stiff, old fashioned
| bow. His library is as dear to him as the
apple of his eye. His sister keeps hi:
house-he keeps his library. There is nc
other law library like it in the United
States, except, of course, the all com
pretending 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 tel
funny story nor crack joke that was
caught by his friends. Nye is o jovia
and cordial fellow, but he allows hi.
funny sayings to enter the world by hi
pen more than by his mouth. The diff
ference in financial returns from the two
methods is evident. The -caricatures o.
himself that illustrate Nye's funny stories
are excellent representations, barring the
few exaggerated qualities. The bale
head, smoothly shaven face and gen
orally cadaverous expression behind {
pair of spectacles are all there in tht
original article. Bill Nye is brigh
looking man. He is less than forty year
old, tail and thin. His complexion il
sandy and his hair very thin. His darl
eyes are bright, and the prominent lowe
jaw, so smooth and regular in outline
has the habit of moving itself down a
intervals and assuming comical posi-
ton that is about the ouly humorou
thing in Nye's address. His good natur,
is never failing. There is nothing of TIN
dude about Bill Nye. He is too thin t.
have his clothes fit him very well, ant
too fond of assuming the easiest attitude
he can find in lounging about to main
tain good fit if he ever had one. Their
are no flies about Nye. lie is just al
everyday sort of a newspaper man-n'
journalist-and the same ready com
| DaniOn all the year round.