The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-09-25
MASCULINE MENTION.

Oscar Wilde has a weakness for white
kid gloves and Turkish cigarettes
Senator Squire is said to be strikingly
like the late General Logan in personal
appearance,
Rev. Louis A. Banks, of South Boston
has written book on the sweating system
and tenement house wrongs,
The British primate the official head Of
the Church of England, is said to look like
Senator German, except that he appears to
be somewhat older,
The Turkish minister to this country,
Mavroyeni Bey, takes kindly to many
! American institutions, but he can't be per
suaded to try the clam or the blackboard.
General Clusters father was noticed in
Detroit recently gazing with moist eyes at
! a cyclorama picture Of the battle in which
his son was killed, The old gentleman is
eighty-four years Of age
England's great preacher, Sturgeon, is a
short, sturdy and thickset man His face
| is rather coarse and is fringed by sparse
gray beard He dresses shabbily, wears
spectacles and smokes immoderately,
Joseph II. Choate, New Yorks distin.
guished lawyer, is u tall, stoop shouldered
man with shaggy eyebrows and sharp
face. His manner IL suave and bland, but
as keen cross examiner he IL unrivaled.
Nathaniel Greene Herreshoff, designer of
the yacht Gloriana, when child often dis,
appeared from home, and was in such cases
almost invariably found playing beside the
water with toy boats and watching big
ships.
Brahmin bull has been presented to
the Washington geological! gardens by the
Hon. John II. Starin, of New York city,
Mr.. Starin was much interested while in
congress in promoting the 200" and other
local improvements
| A Chinese compradore named Chin
Gong has been appointed United States
deputy marshal for Annoy The marshal
is DR.. Edward Bedloe, said to be 4 descend
ant of the family after whom Bedloe's
Island was named in New York harbor.
At his new place in the Catskills Mr..
George Gould expects to have a herd of
about hundred deer and elk. He has al
ready established u small preserve on the
shore of the lake. The preserve contains
right Colorado elk and eight Virginia and
| four black tailed deer
| senator flninD Is one OF tne strong
men" of congress. He has tremendous
chest, muscular arms and an enormous
hand, He is especially fond of bowling
and is able to grasp the largest balls with
out using the finger holes and rush them
along the alley with resstless force.
Louis Paulsen, whose death has been an
nounced, was undoubtedly one Of the
greatest blindfold chess players that ever
lived At one time he astonished the chess
playing world by winning six out of ten
games played simultaneously while blind
folded The other four games were drawn
General r. G. Dyrenforth. who is trying
to produce rain by bonn barding the heavens
from balloons, studied four years in the
military schools of Prussia, just before the
outbreak of the American civil war He
was skilled artilleryman, and served on
the stats of Generals Rosecrans and Grant.
When Little Mac" died he left only a
small property, which Colonel Mcclellan
turned over to his mother in order to secure
her comfort in her declining years He is
now making his mark In the world and
gathering in it's ducats, having the re.
sponsible position of treasurer of the
: Brooklyn bridge.
, Mr.. Walter Winans, the American mil
,ionaire whose deer forest in Scotland has
20 often formed the theme Of parliamentary
debates and whose revolver shooting is re
markable has made a wonderful record
, with his favorite weapon. At distance OF
twenty yards. with disappearing target
; he scored forty points out Of possible
fortY-two