The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-19
MEN AND WOMEN.

Potter Palmer, the Chicago Million
aire, lives in a house that is said to
be more like castle than any other
residence in Chicago. No two rooms
are alike in style or finish. The
house is built with a rotunda sur
mounted by q Moorish dome, and all
the doors open into a circular hall.
The supporting pillars and the ballus
trades are made of polished marble.
General Sherman does not seem to
be appalled, at the thought of dying;
at any rate he speaks of it sometimes
in an off-hand sort of way that is
almost amusing. Not long after
Sheridan's funeral, in referring to
the decease of many prominent Off
GERS of the late war, he said to friend:
81 shall have to hurry up and die
pretty soon or there will be nothing
but militia to bury me-"
There was q grand reunion of the
Billings family at Springfield, Mass,
recently. Several hundred members
we're present. all descendants of three
Billings brothers, who came to this
country in 1640. Many family heir
looms were exhibited, consisting of
portraits. table linen and brlc-a-brac.
1t was voted to publish a history Of
the Billings family, which Charles
Billings had prepared.
Mrs. Rachel Stillwagon of Flushing.
L. l., has lately celebrated her one
hundred aud fourth birthday. A
dinner was gwen in her honor by her
numerous descendants, and there was
no one at the table who enjoyed it
more than the old lady herself. Mrs.
Stillwagon has the use of all her fac
ulties and enjoys excellent health.
She rises every morning at 6 and
goes to bed at ii, and never thinks of
taking a nap between times.
His excellency Hadji Hossein
Ghooly Khan Montamed-el-Yaar, en-
voy extraordinary and minister plen-
ipotentiary from Persia to the United
States, is a small man and spare of
flesh. His features are of distinctly
Eastern cast, the nose being enlarged
and curved, the complexion swarthy,
and the eyes small and bead-like in
their jetty brightness. He wears a
full black beard, and his manner is
simple and unostentatious.
Mr.. Gladstone recently happened
to meet the bishop of Peterborough.
England, who is as smart in his con-
versation as the late Samuel Wilber-
force, bishop of Oxford. 81 hear, my
lord" observed Mr.. Gladstone, "that
you don't quite approve of my deal
ing with the Irish question" .Oh!
dear, no." quietly answered the bish-
op; sit is not your dealing 1 mind,
Mr.. Gladstone, it is your shufiling
that object to-"
Archbishop Corrigan is the young
est of the Roman Catholic bishops,
and presides over the largest see. He
is tall and well built and has the step
of an athlete and the manner of a
courtier. He seldom uses q coach,
and when he cannot walk, rides in
horse-car. In his dress he is alto
sether unassuming also. Bishop Cor
rigan was born in little white frame
house on Market street, New Jersey.
used since as a saloon and later as a
newspaper office.
Harlow Curtiss, of Harwinton, Conn.,,
is in his eighty-ninth year. He has
carried on his farm himself this sea-
son, raising forty bushels OF potatoes
and cutting five acres of grass by
hand. He recently shot a running
fox at off-hand aim. In Bristol,
Conn, a week ago he entered q rifle
range and scored ninety-one points
out of one hundred. He made three
consecutive bulls eyes. He can read
a newspaper without glasses and is
altogether one of the youngest men
in the country for his years.
Jefferson Davis is now a white
haired, white-bearded man of eighty
years. He has lived for the last thir-
teen years at Beauvoir, on the shores
OF the Gulf, in southern Mississippi.
between Mobile and New Orleans,
His house is a large, old fashioned.
double framed plantation cottage
The servants quarters are outside.
and Mr.. Davis has quite an imposing
study, where he wrote his history OF
the rebellion. Mr.. Davis has been
married for forty years to lady who
is considerably his junior.
Mrs. Cleveland's costume. as she