Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-06
-------7-------------
PROMINENT PERSONS.

r. E. Lee son of the great rebel general,
has his fathers gold spurs. They were be
queathed to him by his mother.
The wife of Secretary Whitney is a fear
less rider, and keeps beautiful blooded
saddlemare for her exclusive use.
Justice Lamar's ancestors came from
France and were French Huguenots. One
of his uncles was president of Texas.
Cleveland's great-grandfather was poet at
nineteen, and his grandfather wrote poetry
Grover himself does not toy with the muse.
Prof. Henry E. Parker, of Dartmouth
college, and his daughter are at CONSTANT
nople, and will probably reach home in July
The venerable John C. Whittier, the Qua
ker poet has lingering fondness for the
rade he learned as boy, that of shoemalting.
Miss Amelia Fives, whose last story emp.
tied the critics vials of wrath upon her
head, Is said to pray for her defamers every
night
Washington Irving Bishop is at Honolulu,
but will not give any mind-reading exhibits
there His coief aim now is to get his health
back.
Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, has
given $1,000 to the 81, 900, 900 permanent fund
for ministerial relief that is being raised by
the Presbyterian church.
Julian Hawthorne has in his house at
South Plains, N. j., little table on which
Mary Stuart is said to have written her last
letter on the morning Of her execution.
Ex-Governor Evans, of Colorado, is one of
eight or ten millionaire delegates to the gen.
eral Methodist conference in New York He
founded the suburb Of Evanston and was one
OF the first settlers of Denver.
DR.. H. H. Furnessysthe eminent Shakes
pearean scholar, lives in luxurious old-fash-
ioned house at the corner of Seventh and
Locust streets, Philadelphia. He is charm
ing companion, but on, ,accounl Of his deaf
ness disllses to meet strangers
Gen. Ben Butler, Notwithstanding he en-
joys monopoly of the manufacture of hunt-
ing in this country, IS not overladen with
decoration day patriotlsmI He refused to
deliver the memorial address in Lowell, and
another orator had to be secured.
The grave of Henry Ward Beecher in
Greenwood cemetery Brooklyn, was at
tended to on Decoration day by the Sixty
seventh New York regiment, which (then
the First Long Island regiment) was organ
lied largely through Mr.. Beechers efforts
General E. C. Walthall, the junior sena-
tor from Mississippi, is said to look like
cavalier who has just stepped out from one
of Sir Peter Lely's canvasses, He is six
feet TALL symmetrical, with a fine head of
dark hair that falls in curls abount his neck
Walt Whitman is in better health this
spring than three or four months ago, some
what stronger, and able to move about more
oil II,is
of paralysis he still drives his spirited horse
alone and works day by day at his new vol
ume.
Ex-Governor Berry, of New Hampshire,
now residing at Bristol and in his ninety
second year, organized in 1926 the first tenn
perance society in that state. 1t was formed
at Hebron, where he was q manufacturer of
leather, and was known as the Tanners
Temperance society"
Baylss w. Hanna, United States minister
to the Argentine Republic, has had another
severe attack of rariiied air-to put in most
polite terms, what's the matter with Hanna.
There seems to be good ground for the asser-
tion that Hanna is indeed an envoy eXtraor-
dinary.
Ex-Governor Hoyt paid glowing tribute
to Stephen Girard, whose l3Sth birthday an
niversary was celebrated Monday in Phila-
delpha Yet not a member of the Prcsby-
terian General assembly, now in session in
Philadelphia, would be permitted to enter
the college which old Stephens money
founded.
Sarah X. Bolton describes Will Carleton
as "a tail, vigorous looking man, who believes
in outdoor exercise, especially walking, who
is fond of rowing, sailing, and horseback
riding who uses no stimulants, who is kindly
in manner yet decided in character, who
honors womanhood and all that is pure and
olevating, and who Is fond of music, playing
on several instruments.
General Bragg, minister to Mexico, is ap-
parently we'll pleased with his position and
the $l2, 900 salary attached. He writes TO a
Milwaukee friend that he "would be foolish
to pack up and return to Wisconsin for the
purpose of entering into a maelstrom such as
one must enter into who seeks seat in con-
gress from the Second Wisconsin district"
At seventy-six Mr.. Browning does not
look to be more than forty nor act so. He
goes everywhere and sees everything.
Within few days he went to the funeral of
Matthew Arnold, to the Academy, the Gros.
venor and the New, to say nothing of the
numberless ''at homes" Mr.. Brownin has no
affectations. Unlike his fhend and contem-
porary, Lord Tennyson, "a slouch hat and
long cloak in some country ''palace of art"
have no charms for him.
-.