The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-15
MEN YOU HEAR OF.

The Rev. DR.. George Macdonald feels
the weight of advancing years, and sits
in chair while he lectures.
Gen. John C. Fremont is now rs years
old, and his friends say he looks good
for ten or fifteen years more.
Gen. Charles Williams, of Manchester,
N. H, will give a fine park to that city,
to be enjoyed especially by poor chill
dren.
The Hon. Leopold Morse, of Massa-
chusetts, with his family, has been re-
visiting his native town, Durkheim, Ger
many.
Senator Joseph II. Hawley will deliver
the Grafton at the two hundred and
fftieth anniversary of the settlement of
Milford, Conn.
Horatio Bonar, the great hymn writer,
was favorite pupil of DR.. Chalmers.
He bore a marked facial resemblance to
Mr.. Gladstone.
Philip w. Mckinney, nominated by
the Democrats for governor of Virginia.
was severely wounded at the battle of
Brandy Station. -.....
Gen. G. w. C. Lee, son of Robert E.
Lee, is an uncommonly large and power
fully built man, with grizzled. gray hair
and short beard.
Bernard Gillian, the caricaturist of
Judge, is 80 years old. He tried to make
a living by painting pictures, but the
public would not buy them.
Senator Sherman has finely stocked
library of standard books, but he prac-
tees the theory of Gladstone. Never
read book till it is a year old"
Sir Charles Russells fees in the May
brick case amounted to LOO guineas.
He had 500 guineas as retainer, and a
''refresher'' of 100 guineas day.
Gen. Grenfell, the British commander
in the war against the slave traders on
the Nile, is AZ years old; man of hand
some presence and literary tastes.
Mr.. Stone, the editor of The New York
Journal of Commerce, lives on Franklin
avenue, Brooklyn, where he has nearly
an acre of ground planted in roses.
Sir Edward Arnold win visit the
United States next winter in the course
of his journey around the world. BE
will be for time the guest of the presi-
dent of Harvard.
President Harrison derived considera-
BILE benefit from his trip to New England.
He has had slight touches of rheumatism
at Deer Park, which the salt air Of Bar
Harbor drove away.
Judge Patton, of Hicksville, O., is one
of the few men living who held Office
under President jackson. ''Old Kick
DRY" appointed him United States court
judge in that state many years ago.
Edward Burgess, the yacht designer,
looks more like professor of mathe-
mates than a practical boat builder. He
is 40 years old, member of an aristocratic
Boston family and a graduate of Har-
ward.
Justice Lamar, of the supreme court
of the United States, has recently made
tour through Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana and Texas, and has found, he
says, notable industrial progress almost
everywhere.
Professor Melvil Dewey, who used to
be with Columbia college, is going to
Europe to study the economy of the
greatest libraries there and to see what
methods they follow there which it
would pay to practice here.
Gen. Boulanger received the news of
his sentence to imprisonment while
dining with Lord Delaware. Boulanger
was eating grouse when the news was
brought to him. He calmly continued
his meal, smiled constantly, and pre-
tended to be not at all disturbed. But
it was noticed that he seemed to have
lost his appetite.
Hannibal Hamlin is enjoying life in a
quiet way at his home in Bangor. HeI
has big garden in which he delights to
work, and his orchard and flower pots |
are his pride and joy. Although Mr..
Hamlin is 81 years of age, he is still able |
to walk ten or fifteen miles day with
out much fatigue. and makes frequent
trips to his old home at Paris Hill, Ok
ford county.