The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-07
MASCULINE MENTION.

Mr.. Astor's new New York hotel win
be seventeen stories high.
Wilson, the uneqlaled ornithoiogist,
earned his living in youth as q journeyman
weaver
Senator Vest of Missouri, wears boots
with old fashioned high heels that run
down to point.
Rev. Sam Jones, in an interview, esti-
mates the number of conversions under his
preaching at 10000 to 200, 600.
Henry Hilton has a fine collection of
fancy and colored diamonds, numbering
nearly hundred stones, in brown, yellow,
green and pink.
Major Turner Goldsmith, of Atlanta,
enjoys the distinction of having lived under
twenty-one presidents. He is eighty-nine
years old and has host of descendants. y
Sir Henry Parkes, the leading Australian
statesman and to whom is due the fact that
Australasia is now virtually "a federal
republic, began life rs a farm laborer in
England.
President Diaz, of Mexico, has strain
of Indian blood in his veins, as had his
predecessors, Juarez and Hidalgo. The
congress of Mexico is largely composed of
descendants of the ancient Aztecs.
General Arson G. McCook, secretary OF
the United States senate, is strongly built
man about fifty years of age, and has dark
hair, mustache and eyes. He is one of the
most agreeable and popular men IN Wash
ington.
Schweinfurth, the Illinois "Son of God"
is a man Of medium height, with square
face, brown beard and keen eyes. He talks
quickly in a businesslike way. On his
head is perched little skull cap and he
wears gold watch chain.
William F. Albeit, son of Governor Leon
Albeit, of New Jersey, is a member of the
well known legal firm of which his father
has been so long the head. He is about
thirty years of age, tall and slender. has
brown hair and smooth face.
John ". Bookwalte-, who was the Demo
cratic nominee for governor of Ohio some
thing like twelve years ago, has spent
great deal Of his money IN promoting
flying machine inventions. As he has
several millions he can afford TO lose.
Benjamin LIE Fevre, formerly member
of congress from Ohio, is one of the largest
men who ever occupied seat in that body.
He Is feet inches in height and weighs
about 300 pounds. He is about fifty years
of age, and has gray hair and short full
beard
Edward Jordan, ex-solicitor Of the treas
ury of the United States, is prominent
lawyer of New York. He is sixty-thres
years of age, about six feet in height, and
has long black hair tinged with gray, and
smooth face. He was a protege of Secre-
tary Chase.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie is now fifty-fve
years old. He is little man-not so tall
as General Grant was. He looks little as
the general did, wears full beard, which
Is quite gray, and has the same full, gray
eyes that Grant had. His face is kindly
and thoughtful.
Four years ago W. R. Lee was driving an
express wagon in Springfield, o.; three
years ago he entered the medical school,
New York city; one year ago he graduated
and went as u missionary to SIAM and now
at the age of twenty-eight he is made royal
doctor to the king of Siam.
Owen County Breckenridge, lawyer OF
the Pacific coast, owes a portion of his
name to a romantic circumstance. In 1853
John G. Breckenridge was running for con-
gress in Kentucky, and Owen county gave
him the victory, and to a son born upon
the day of the election he gave the county's
name.
Judge Wheeler, United States district
judge for Vermont, is a powerfully built
man, about 6 feet in height, and has a
large head almost entirely bald. He wears
short side whiskers and a profuse chin !
beard. He is in his fifty-seventh year,
courteous and affable in manner and popu-
lar with the bar