Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-10-23
MEN OF NOTE.
Bits Of Interesting Personal Gossip Culiet
from the Newspapers.

rom the newspaper.
Bismarck las a mania for gettint
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 ut
Sedan should cease.
NJ. Paul Blouet, MAX O'Rell," is pre-
pairing a lecture on Americans for a 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 n~inety-two
wolves since the war, a record that no
other Illinois man a even approach.
Gen. William 7. Sherman seems to
have not the slightest fear of death, and
talks Of it sometimes in an of hand way
that is extremely weird. Not long after
Sheridan's funeral Sherman was speak
ing to a friend Of the many prominent
officers of the late war who had died.
II shall have . 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 a man Of some fifty
autumns, with rather a thin face, splen-
didly developed Uranium, which is nearly
bald, and darkish beard, tina: is now
undergoing the process of grizzling. Pro-
fessor Bonney is of about the 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 he lives
near P~ittsburg, Pa. Mr.. Hays keeps a
coal yard, and he conducts the entire
business himself. He writes all his let
tiers on a 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-
terrain church. Mr.. Hays Is Q con of
Gen. Alexander Hays, who lost his life
in the battle of the Wilderness.
jefferson Davis home at Beauvoir,
Miss, is a 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 q hall
that is twenty feet wide and extends
quite through the house TO the latticed
veranda in the rear. On the grounds
there Is a vineyard, and in the beautiful
garden grow orange and fig trees and ali
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-.
gagenent where, through an unfortunat,
blunder, one portion Of the British fore,
began firing on a detachment OF theil
own men, Father O'Sullivan volunteered
10 run the gauntlet and inform the at
lacking party Of their mistake. For thi
act Of bravery he received a gold media
from Queen Victoria and was promoted
10 the rank Of major. He had man,
friends in America who will learn of hiI
death with sorrow.
Justice Horace Gray, Of the suprem,
court, is putting the finishing touches Il
the quaintest new house in Washington.
Il Is q reproduction In brick and ston,
and on a double scale Of the ordinary
New England farm house, with It's higi
pitched roof and overhanging caves. II
Is perfectly plain and rigidly rectangular
and attracts more eyes than It's more or
namental and conventional neighbors
"What did you build such a house a
that fort" asked q society woman Of tn
tall and handsome bachelor justice tb'
other day. "For my library, madam,
he replied, with his stiff, old fashione,
bow. His library is az dear 10 him as tn
apple OF his eye. His sister keeps hi
bouse-he keeps his library. There Is M
other law library like it in the Unite'
States, except, of course, the all com
pretending National Law library In tb,
old supreme court room In the basement