The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-10-10
MASCULINE MENTION.

Count on Munster com Dimes the duties
of ambassador with those of horse dealer.
NJ Constans, the great French states
man, is strikingiy like Mr. Blaine in ap
pearance.
The most precious life in the world is
that Of Viscount Dudley, who has just
been insured for 9l 900.
Officer Rollings, of Philadelphia, is said
to be the largest policeman in the United
States. He six feet eight inches in height
and weighs $40 pounds
Henry c. Cook, tailor of Norwich,
Conn, has a beard seven feet two inches
long 1t has been growing thirty years.
His height Is five feet six inches.
W. X. VauLcrbilt's private secretary is
an EnglisE;nan. Frank Foster by name.
He is about thirty years of age. six feet
tall, and very reserved and unapproach
able man.
The Hon. John Bigelow, ex-minister to
France, is a tall, fine looking man of Ro
man presence, with snow white beard
and white hair To assist him in walking
he carries Il cane.
General Palmer. the new commander in
chief of the G. A. r., is affabe and has
many warm friends. He is an excellent
presiding officer, but slow and not par
ticularly eloquent speaker
Herman Celman, the South American
millionaire, owns a $l,0OO,0OO yacht, the
Southern Cross, is only twenty-eight years
Of age and has All income Of $5OO, 900 a year.
He Is the only son of exPresident Gel
man of the Argentine Republic.
Major Rathbone, of Ohio, the new fourth
IL for
years old. and is one of the most expert
enced men in the service. He is a hand
some fellow, n thirty-second degree Mason
and wide awake business man.
Dr. Newman Hall. the noted English
Congregationalist divine, is seventy-five
years old The famous tract, Come to
Jesus" Of which he iy the author, has had
a greater sale than almost any other re
ligious work excepting the Bible
Professor Harrington, the new chief of
the weather bureau, is rather stout man
If medium height. He is about forty-five
years old There is short, bristly brown
beard on his face, and he has the dash of a
man of unusual executive ability
Rev. Phillips Brooks Is said to be the
fastest speaker in the world. Verbatim
reporters who timed him found that he
speaks on an average OF 2l2 words a min.
ute. Stammering in his youth is account
able for his remarkable haste in speech.
Ex-Secretary Bayard Is growing 1eshy as
he advances in years, and his fine height is
now balanced by u fair breadth of body.
His face has become net in severe lines and
his hair has whitened rapidly since death
robbed him Of his wife and his favorite
daughter
The Baddely brothers, who won the
doubles lawn tennis championship in Eng
land this year. and one of whom Won the
championship, are so like each other that
! it is said to be absolutely impossible to tell
them apart unless they wear some distin-
| gushing mark In dress.
Sergeant John Leirch, now citizen OF
| Indianapolis, was one of the brave Six
| Hundred who rode up to the mouth of the
| guns at Balaklava He was a boy oil
seventeen when he enlisted at Nottingham
in the Eighth Hussars, who formed part
of the famous Light Brigade.
Mr.. Spurgeon, the famous English speak
er. has found enough spare time in his busy
life to become a botanist, a foriculturist
and practical landscape gardener, and
his Norwood residence has glass houses
gardens and grounds surrounding it which
are the envy Of the neighborhood.
Archbishop John Ireland, of St. Paul, il
tall. Of robust figure, with broad shout
ders. and has a large intellectual head
His attire IL always plain. In the pulpi
he Ii somewhat awkward, but he speak,
with great force and earnestness, and ther,
10 delightful charm about his oratory.