The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-05-27
MASCULINE MENTION.

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Ex-Congressrnan Morrill,, Of Kansas. has
taken out . commisstpn ~ notary public.
Captain William Bruce, of San Fran
CISCO has just cut his third set of teeth at
eighty-two. 81 rs IS 4e 3s
Cornelius Vanderbilt keeps his face
smooth shaven, except an inch of close
cropped whiskers. His features are refined
and intellectual.
Tbs Rev. Frank Clendenin, who Ia to
marry Miss Gabrielle Greeley, had held to
the theory that minister's should never
marry. When he met the lady named he
renounced.
A. j. Drexel, with banking houses in
London, Paris, New York and Philadel-
phia, Is quiet and unassuming in manner.
and a master spirit in extensive railroad
and other enterprises.
The new president of the Florida senate.
Jefferson B. Browne, Is but thirty-three
years of age, and refers with pride to the
fact that he kept Florida lighthouse to
obtain money for an education in law.
Senator Edmunds is only sixty two years
of age, but he looks as if he had wea1hered
many more winters. He appears quite
feeble and worn out, and his tall, bent form
and white beard indicate an old and weary
man.
President Balmaceda, of Chill, is a stern
ana arbitrary man, with cold gray eyes,
thin lips and an angular chin. He DOS
seeses more education and ability than are
usually found in a South American die
tator.
Henry Cabot Lodge, the Massachusetts
congressman, has slender but sinewy fig
ure. the face of literary man, abundant
brown hair and Van Dyke beard. He Is
diRnifed in demeanor and always well
dressed.
Sir Charles Dixie is forty-eight years old.
He is man of average height, with long
brown beard and a deep voice. He Is
wealthy, capable Of hard literary work, a
convincing speaker in parliament and q
man of good manners and excellent taste
in dress.
Among the queerest of post-mortAm
gifts were the silver Walls which the late
DR.. Charles F. Heuser, An eccentric Balti-
more physician, arranged to have distrib-
uted among his friends after they had been
filled with ashes from his cremated body.
Ex-Judge Tappan, grand sachem of Tam
many Hall, although nearly seventy years
of age and possessed of wealth, is untiring
in his profession, and his erect form, bushy
hair and quick step make him a prominent
figure among New York's best known cit
liens.
Representative Shively, of Indiana, is
pointed out as one of the handsomest men
in congress. He is pictured as having the
head of poet, with wavy black hair, clear
cut features. dark eyes anda fetching mus
tache. He is over six feet tall and is we'll
proportional.
j. Rogers Maxwell, the designer of the
sloop Shamrock, is big, strong and gen.
tlemanly young fellow, rs full of. snap and
fire as Il dynamite cartridge, and he has
plenty of money to foot his yachting bills.
He recently sold 5000, 900 Of Long Island
railroad stock in one deal.
A mysterious person signing himself
simply "Hez" has been contributing many
thousands of dollars to charity through
the hands of the Philadelphia Bulletin,
keeping his identity carefully concealed.
He is now found to be Henry Isle VAIN,
q venerable member of the Society Of
Friends.
DR.. David Starr Jordan, of the Leland
Stanford university, is an athlete and
sportsman as we'll as q scholar and parson.
He says of himself: "Six feet one and a
half inches high. I weigh 215 pounds, but
can swim, play baseball and talk Norwe-
gian," and you cannot tell him much he
does not already know about trout, rods
and reels.