Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-31
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

EDWARD A FREEMAN, the English historian,
is short, but stout and robust. Like most En-
| glishmen, he has 8 well-fed, roast beef eating
| appearance. He wears long, white patriarchal
beard. He has a son married and settled in
Virginia, and he is very proud of his American
| grandchildren.
FRANK r. STOCKTON has had great deal of
cheap fun poked at him for being "a rising
| young man of letters at the age of 55" But it
should be remembered that he had served a
long and laborious apprenticeship to literature
before he surprised the world with his fresh
and original story. 'The Lady or the Tiger"
MONTGOMERY SEARS, who is one of the
richest men of Boston, and Hvesi in an American
palace, is the son of grocer, who lived on half
dollar a day and slept in the store. He made
money and saved it, following the wise advice
of Franklin, that penny saved is penny
gained" That is the sure road to wealth, but
it is q hard road to travel
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS is described as
"a bland gentleman with clerical appearance
| and looking as though he ought to part his hair
in the middle" He stands 5 feet 10, wears En-
glish whiskers, and darkish light locks shade a
handsome face. For % years he has been the
literary adviser of Messrs. Harper & Brothers.
receiving the splendid salary of s25 900 q year.
COLONEL JEROME NAPOLEON BoNAPARTE.
the grandnephew of the great Napoleon and
the grandson of the famous beauty Madam
Bonaparte, of Baltimore, would make an ad-
mirable leader for the Bonapartes in France.
Napoleon said he found the crown of France
on the ground, and he picked it up with lis
sword. Colonel Bonaparte may do the same
Stranger things have happened in France.
JOHN s. SHRIvER, who wrote almost
Novel" last year, is under literary training for
complete novel, as scissorsman on the Balti.
more american. He is a blond youth of Is
summers, who has made hurried visit to
Europe with his pa, who is rich, and it was said
that the old gentleman paid his salary on the
American in order to cultivate the latent
genius Of his promising son.
CHARLES F. GUNTHER, of Chicago, the mil
lionaire confectioner, has the largest collection
of autographs IN the United States. Among
the choicest are poem Of Keats, a letter of
Edgar A. Poe, verses by Louise M. Alcott, Paul
b. Hayne, William Gilmore Simms, etc
Among his curios are the early edition of
Shakespeare, with the reputed autograph of the
immortal bard, the musket carried by Chief
Justice Taney at the battle of North Point. in
1914. and letter on satin, written by Henry
Clay in 1912
MAURICE THOMPSON, who has recently been
made the litertary editor Of the Independent
has fought his way to literary success by sheer
perseverance. The close of the Civil War
found him stranded high and dry in the little
town of Calhoun, Ga. Finding there was moth
ing for him to do in that remote place he made
his way to the North and settled at Crawfords-
vile, Ind, where he studied law, but he did not
give up his first love, literature. He wrote
stories, essays, poems, criticism, everything,
and having proved that he was capable writer.
he has been rewarded by good position.