The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-22
MEN YOU HEAR OF.

Chauncey NJ. Eepew's annual income
Is said to reach the sum of $125, 900.
Professor Baldwin, the parachutist.
will bring el2,O00 from across the sea.
John W. Mackay has denied emphatic
ally that his wife has ever helped Bou-
LANCER.
P. T. Barnum will bring out during
the coming autumn volume of personal
reccllections.
George Bancroft is one of the few liv-
ing Americans who knew both Goethe
and Lord Byron
DR.. Brown-Sequard was. during 1859,
lecturer on vivisection at the South
Carolina Medical college
|. NJ. Eiffci makes S., 900 a day out of his
tower. which is certainly the biggest
thing at the Paris exposition.
Joaquin Miller contemplates purchas-
ing yacht and leaving San Francisco
for cruise TO the South seas.
The Duke of Fife has forbidden his
wife to accept her share of the parlia-
mentary grant to the royal family
Commodore Ramsay, of the BrookIyn
navy yard, bemoans the fact that the
race of American tars is dying out.
R. NJ Field. OF the Boston museum.
has been manager of a stock company
longer than any other living American.
Dr.. D. T. Brown, the famous New
York alienst, long reported dead, has
been on farm near Batavia, His, two
hours from Chicago.
Professor Edward D. Porter, OF the
University of Minnesota, has been elected
dean of the College of Agriculture of
Missouri, and has accepted the position.
Cardinal Gibbons has started il move
ment for the erection of a memorial to
Cecilius Calvert, second Lord Baltimore,
the pioneer of civil and religious liberty
IN America.
Anton Rubinstein, who is about TO Gel
citrate the Jubilee" of his musical ca
reer, was boy prodigy" at the piano
fifty years ago. He will be go years old
next 1NONGllDeT.
Col Bob Ingersoll is big, surly
looking man of powerful build. with
practical head, set squarely on his shout
ders. He has a will of his own. and an
iron one at that.
The world renowned Blondin has made
bet of $20.0 900 that he can walk rope
from the top of the Eiffel tower to the
central dome of the Paris exposition
building in five minutes
William Walter Phelps is a dark, thin
faced. distingue looking man with just
the slightest twitch of nervousness in his
manner He is strong minded and so,
and dresses With punctilious care.
A Washington correspondent says that
the late Judge Terry was a clergyman
about forty years ago, in Texas, before
he appeared. in California; but his IN
comfortable temper drove him from the
pulpit.
John l. Blair, the New Jersey railroad
king. who recently testified in legal
proceeding that he was worth from S40,-
OO0, 900 to $50, 000, 900, says that he laid
the foundation of his fortune 10y trap
ping when boy.
a correspondent remarks: Corp.
James Tanner rarely goes to bed before
10 o'clock in the morning 1t is unusual
for him TO get a nights sleep. He is
accustomed to sit up till, thoroughly
tired out, lie is obliged to lie down"
Elbridge T. Gerry. who combines the
functions Of president of the New York
yacht club and of secretary TO the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, holds himself rs straight as an
arrow and has the bluff manners of a
weather beaten sea captain.
The late Felix Pyat in the days of his
literary foppishness used to change his
shirt and white gloves twice day, and
was notable for the adroit way he knock
ed off the necks of bottles SO as to pre-
vent the possible contamination of his
wine by the walters fingers.
Dom Piatt says the ordinary member
of congress cares nothing for books-that
he never had book, if he had he would
not be a member; therefore, when any
bill to assist what a prominent senator
called them literary fellows" is brought
before congress, it is promptly voted
down.
Denman Thompson has, at his own
expense, had solid cut stone wall built
in front of the old cemetery in West
Swanzey, N. Fl. Mr.. Thompson has been
appointed road commissioner in Swan
zey, and during his vacation he directs
all improvements and alterations on the
in that town.