The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-01-12
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.



Men and Women of Note.
Andrew Milton, of Medina, Mich, is
an all day whittier and is getting rich at
1T. He has just completed his 1S, ,400th
AK handle.
DR.. Schenerlin, of Berlin, has inocu-
lated dogs with the newly discovered
bacillus of cancer. So far no cancer
symptoms have been developed.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps is suffering
from an affection of the eyes and is
obliged to do her literary work by the aid
of an amanuensis.
I Samuel Spencer, who has been made
president of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road at salary of $25, 200 ayear, was a
rodman earning scant salary only few
years ago. He is not yet 40 years old.
The Chinese government has just ap-
pointed Henra Merrill chief commits
sioner of customs at Corea at salary of
$4,000. Henry is Vermont. boy, and
was born and raised ut Dummerston.
The Baroness Burdett-C Coutts and other
philanthropic persons in London are
about to establish, it is said, a scheme to
provide workshops furnished with several
machines where poor seamstresses can
go and have the use Of the machines at
very low charge. !.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, the philan-
thropist, never goes to the theatre, and
has read but two novels-sJane Eyre''
and the ''Scarlet Letter. Her tastes
are perfectly simple. She has a great
liking for bread, milk and apples. 1t is
doubtful if society has ever heard of her.
But she is the only woman who has the
freedom of the floor of the house, a right
which even the presidents s wife does not
have.
Mrs. Langtry has an absolute horror Of
flesh. which is encroaching upon her so
rapidly that it has destroyed the long
lines of her once famous figure, and
threatens her with the most English re-
suits. She has always exercised great
deal, but her exercise is now really vio-
lent, and she has adopted modified sys-
tenn of banting. 1t is all of little avail,
however, as she positively refuses to give
up champagne, the most insidious enemy
OF female loveliness.
Campanini lost his voice through wear
ing low necked shirts in the bitter New
York weather, six or seven winters ago.
Ihe story goes that the great tenor was
blacksmith in his boyhood, and became
so hardened to violent contrasts of cold
and heat that he thought nothing could
affect the superb strength of his physique.
But New York blast struck him in his
vital spot one day and he was compelled
to give up the stage altogether. Unex-
pectedly his voice came back to him, but
in such delicate form that ne Is now
obliged to nurse it like an exotic.
Senator Ingalls,, the dignifed president
of the United States senate, stood on a
| curbstone in Washington a day or two
ago as a horse car rushed by at rapid
| rate. For moment Ingahs' chance of
boarding that car seemed as slim as he is
himself. Suddenly, however. the Kansas
statesman j kced two fingers in his
mouth, blew sharp blast and piercing
whistle startled the calm winter atmos-
phere. Eehoing along the quiet street,
the shrill sound overlook the hurrying
car, and, as if by magic, the conveyance
| stopped. Ingalls, says he learned to
whistle when boy.
Senator Evarts' house in Washington
used to be full of young girls. His
| daughters have married off, however, and
only Miss Mary Evarts remains at home.
| Miss Evarts is anxious to retire from
active social life, as she finds the round
| of gayeties at the capital something of a
| bore. but her father will not permit her
| to go into seclusion. He takes great in
terest in her toilets, and complains that
she does not purchase enough evening
dresses to please him. 1t is SO seldom
that the father of a young woman in So
Getty makes such a complaint, that Sen.
| Slor Evarts stands almost alone in this
natter.
Word comes from Florence of the
| death of Signora Mariana Barbieri-N Mini.
who was famous thirty or forty years
| ago as an operatic singer, and was as re-
| markable for exceptional ugliness as for
her artistic talent and splendid voice. In
| the height of her fame she married Count
Mini and retired from the stage. After
| his death she married q well known
| Vienna musician named Hackensollner,
who suddenly disappeared, leaving her
| in extremely straitened circumstances,
and she was forgotten except by few
faithful friends. She used herself to re-
late with certain piquant gusto that
once when playing Norma" in the
| famous duet where the two children are
presented to the heroine by Adalg,sa, as
she bent to embrace them, the little girl
who personated one Of the children was
so terrified by her ugliness that she
sprang from the stage into the wings, ex-
| claiming, ''Mother, mother, the witch is
there!" to the intense amusement of the
audience.
The combined wealth of this remark
able family (the Astors) probably stands
without parallel in the world, 1t has
been the steady endeavor of the living
members of the family to underestimate
their possessions in order that they might
not arouse the too bitter jealousy of that
class of the population which looks inim
ically at boarded wealth. For this reason
John Jacob Astor has never giver
any authority for statements of his
wealth that put the figures beyond 500,
900, 900, and ordinarily this sum is looked
upon as the limit of his possessions
nevertheless it il conservative estimate
because the family is always buying new
real estate, as the income In the shape o.
rents brings about an accumulation o.
actual cash much greater than they car
conveniently dispose OF, But taking
800, 900, 900 as a basis and adding to j
the fortune of his brother William, whicl
is moro than half as great, and the for
tunes possessed by the husbands of tn,
married daughters of the family, ther
would be total that could not fall shor
of $3.50, ,000,0 600.