Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-09-14
MASCULINE MENTION.

Count Won Munster combines the duties
Of ambassador with those of horse dealer.
NJ. Constants, the great French states
man, is strikingly like Mr.. Blaine in ap-
pearance.
The most precious life in the world is
that Of Viscount Dudley, who has just
been insured for 81 10000.
Officer Rollings, Of Philadelphia, is said
to be the largest policeman in the United
Htates. He is six feet eight inches in height
and weighs $40 pounds.
Henry C. Cook, tailor Of Norwich,
Conn, has beard seven feet two inches
long. 1t has been growing thirty years
His height Is five feet six inches.
W. X. Vanderbilt's private secretary is
an Englishman, Frank Foster by name
He is about thirty years Of age, six feet
tall, and a 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 cane.
General Palmer, the new commander in
chief Of the G. A. R., is affabie 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 100000 yacht the
Southern Cross, is only twenty-eight years
of age and has an income OF 100000 year.
He is the only son Of ex-President Gel
mau of the Argentine Republic.
Major Rathbone, OF Ohio, the new fourth
assistant postmaster general, is forty-three
years old. and is one of the most expert
enced men in the service. He is hand
some fellow, "A thirty second degree Mason
and a wide awake business man.
DR.. Newman Hall, the noted English
Congregationalist divine, is seventy
years old. The famous tract, Come to
Jesus" of which he is the author, has had
greater sale than almost any other re-
ligious work excepting the Bible.
Professor Harrington, the new chief Of
the weather bureau, is a rather stout man
of medium height. He is about forty i've
years old. There is a 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 3l2 words a min
ute. Stammering in his youth is account
able for his remarkable haste in speech.
Elk Secretary Bayard is growing Heshy as
ne advances in years, and his fine height is
now balanced by fair breadth of body.
His face has become set 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 a citizen Of
indianapolis, was one of the brave Six
Hundred who rode up to the mouth of the
guns at Balaklava He was boy OF
seventeen when he enlisted at Nottingham
in the Eighth Hussars, who formed part
of the famous Light Brigade.
Mr.. Spurgeon, the famous English speak
err, has found enough spare time in his busy
life to become n botanist foriculturist
and a practical landscape gardener, and
his Norwood residence has glass houses,
gardens and grounds surrounding it which
are the envy of the neghborhood.
Archbishop John Ireland, of st. Paul, is
tall, Of robust figure, with broad shout
ders, and has large intellectual head.
His attire is always plain. In the pulpit
he is somewhat awkward, but he speaks
with great force and earnestness, and there
is delightful charm about his oratory.