The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-29
MASCULINE MENTION.

Foraker has just sold 1000 acres Of land
for ten dollars an acre.
Robert Barrett Browning, the poets son,
Is q martyr to govt He Is forty-two years
old.
Robert T. Barker, of New Bedford, Mass,
has read the Bible through no less than 100
times.
Frank Gaienne, president of the st. Louis
Merchants exchange, Is said to be q double
Of Jay Gould
President Hayes was elected noble grand
Of an Odd Fellows lodge just before he left
the White House.
Sir Julian Pauncefote. British minister
at Washington, plays lawn tennis when
ever he gets chance.
Henry Clews has a bathroom that cost
$4,000. The walls, floor, bath, in fact
every part of the room, is of onyx.
Cardinal Manning's dwelling in London
Is plain and unpretentious, though large,
house, which looks more like school than
private mansion.
The Hon. Harvey Rice, father of the
Ohio common school system, is now ninety
one years of age, and Is living quietly in
Cleveland, where he still spends an hour
| daily with his pen.
The death of Mr.. Hamlin recalls the curl
GUS fact that when he was vice president
the name of the second officer Of the gov
eminent was bodily included in that Of the
first, thus: Abraham Lincoln.
Judge Russell, Henry Hilton's son-in-
law, is reputed to be one Of the best story
tellers in New York. He possesses O fund
of wit and humor that has made him as
noted as has his knowledge of the law.
The Rev. DR.. Rainsford. rector of St.
Georges church, New York, is often spoken
of as the bear fighting parson." He is q
famous sportsman and spends a part Of
each years vacation in the Rocky noun
tainS-
George Holmes, of Cincinnati, is the
owner of a peculiar diamond. In the morn
ing it is beautiful sky blue, at noon it is
perfectly white, and at o'clock in the
evening it begins to turn black. and after
sunset is like piece of coal.
Senator George, of Mississippi, is sixty
five years Of age, and he has been a mem
Der of the senate for ten years. He was
brigadier general in the Confederate army,
and after the war was chief justice of the
supreme court of Mississippi.
William Miller, OF Granny, Mass, Is
sixty years Of age, has not been 100 rods
from his home in eleven years, and has all
his life slept in the same bed. He has a
touch of heart disease, and fears that any
change will cause instant death.
The distinction of having crossed the At
lantic over 500 times, and Of having COM
manded all the leading Cunarders, belongs
to Captain W. Il. p. Hams, Of the steamer
Etruria He is commodore of the COM
pany's fleet and has followed the sea since
1888.
DR.. Charles Eastman, the Sioux Indian
to whom Elaine Goodale was married, was
good deal of an athlete while at Dart
mouth. His practice disturbed the stu
dents, and eighty sufferers paid him visit
to throw him out, but he met them with
revolver and dumbbell He was not
thrown out.
Charley Gibson, ex-congressman from
Maryland, has curly, gray head and
military Roatee. Gibson Is said to be one
Of the best authorities on the cooking Of
terrapin and the preparation of the costly
canvasback, and can don a cap and apron
and put his culinary precepts into prompt
practice