Telegram-herald., 1888-04-10
MEN OF sswssAeea FAME.

wh4s pse-s r4sasraphers Have - s@y
81 Taea-Elss 81 Gossip
ssp<aif-r Cssii.l= saokss pipe IA hLs study.
Cen ss.ssHaan szs given his portrait 70
Harvard 4lleefslty.
Ar Glsdssaae plays tLs violin--with 40
grsat success. 1oseTsr
n RIDER uagazrd Is said % eat onions
wlaAll ol4l4po~. as Eis narrowing tales-
Frrs.aeas Chzries K Adams. Of Cornell
dssi4res fh4s co-edacarion : szecess.
~ - II II Marray IS gong on tour q
s1plafasloa 70 Tho exrrelae north q British
America.
The ladder = fame poasesses many rounds,
II Is .al tAlLEles Mitchell > lasider contained
just forty
Louls Eossuth Is still living az Turin with
his sister 10 good health znd busy with his
autobiography.
Prof william James Of Harvard. is going
70 try % revive tho fashion % experiment.
ing with pianchstte.
joel Chandler Harris became TIE father ot
ten children before 30 named one Of them
after himself Admirable modesry.
- e Brazza. the African explorer, il rs-
ported 70 oe almost hopelessly III. His ex-
Fersnces on the Congo ruined his health.
DR. Oliver Wendell Holmes has presented
his .arge a1d valuable collection ~ medical
and surgical books To ths Medical library of
Boston
Mr. Herman MeTivale relates that once on
a first night he thought the pay 50 bad that
IL groansi aload, and 30 loud that tho audi
/ elcs cried. Turn him outl" The play was
his own.
Crhain Olivier, the Swiss novelist. who re-
I cently died At the age Of IS. conSciertiousiy
7 produced one book year and at the same
time cultivated farm. tie was "a very sue
/ ceasful farmer.
John Lamar Acrts, OF Lower Lee county,
I Ga. died recently from brass harmonics.
/ The harmonica was CHRISTMAS present. and
/ Ia blowing it the harmouica poisoned his
mouth and hugs
Richard Mansfield, tho actor though not
/ legally bound 70 pay royalty to Robert
Louis Stevenson fcr the uSo OF a drarnatized
| version os "Dr. Jokyll and Mr Hyde" never
tbeless ssnds large chsex every month to
the famous author
Jacques BaTtog, who acted rs courier for
jay Could Ia Europe. says in newspaper
interview: 'Ar. Jay Gould Is one OF the
incest men ! ever came across. and al the
members Of his family are extremely courte-
Ous and generous in their treatment" Here
! Is one man who Is a hero TO his valet.
John E Fitzgerald, the president of the
! Irish National League of America, who lives
a. Omaha, was for time a common laborer
on Nebraska railroad AZ salary Of fifty
I = a -
banks, l. at the head OF the Nebraska stock
yards az Lincoln, and employs about 4 900
men. His fortune rilRS into the millions.
N Georges Ohnet. author of ''I.s Maitre
de Forges, Serge Famine etc, used TO be
a lawyer, and then a journalist He is a
small, nervous man, talkative and petulant.
For "a short time In the winter he lives in
Paris, but spends most of the year at bis
country seat az Abyrnes. ~ am, - he says
''the LATEST Of lazy people. / have only one
pleasure. one ambition; and that is to sit in
the sun aud DO nothing" Yet he is prolific
and most successful author
II happened to catch Ingerson alone the
other evening" said one OF the best known OF
New Workers. ''Ks spoke to me OF Shakes
pearo-spoks three hours, spoke as be never
spoke 70 an audience. He knows Shakes
psare by heart. knows she familiar and th.
slightest plays. knows that era, and declare.
that IL was one of the greatest infellectua
achievements since history. He not only
Asserts 10, brt proves il with quotations
references. examples" InSersolls aguosti
eism has been practically forgotten here
He Is ready 20 declare himself IL asked bu
he no longer, except incidentally, speaks Of
these views He shuns show OF occasions
and declines invitations to formal dinners
which bs sbominates, BY the score sverl
month Bot he delights in having a wit a
rs own table, aud the sparks fly when b,
gets ora