The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-01-09
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Michael Davitt is never ashamed, either
in public or in private to tell of the pow
erty in which he was born.
Minister Reid expends s27 200 per annum
for the rent of his house in Paris, which is
$4,000 more than his total salary.
Senator Cullom of Springfield Ills, Is
pointed out to visitors TO the United States
senate as the man who looks like Abraham
Lincoln.
John b. Doris, the circus man, now owns
and drives the famous seal bryvns" which
were driven by Mr.. Cleveland when he was
in the White House.
Carl Schurzs manner is still vivacious,
his smile genial and his wit ready His
hair, too, retains much of its original warm
brown, in spite of coming frost.
Senator Walthall, of Mississippi, is very
tall, very erect and has military air
about him. His hair is long and he has
the bearing of n cavalier of the old days.
j. A. Shriver, of Baltimore, has a beau
tifully carved crucifix, the workmanship
of Joseph Mayer who acted the part of
Christ in the Passion play at Oberammer-
gau.
James p. Scott, son of Thomas A. Scott,
late president of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, proposes by way of experiment to
plant 1000 acres in rice near Kissemmee,
Fla.
Professor Roberts-Austen, of the British
mint, estimates that the great smoke cloud
that overhangs London is 800 tons in weight
and contains carbon and carbonic acid gas
of the yearly value of e2,0000o0.
DR.. Elliott Coues. the theosophist and
scientist, is n fine looking man of 45, tall
and broad shouldered. He is an authority
on entomology, and was for many years a
surgeon in the United States army.
Edison always contrives to steal a little
time from his day at the luncheon hour.
After lunch be frequently spends an hour
at billiards with Mrs. Edison and takes n
nap. He does no work in the evening.
President Carnot is said to be one of the
most fastidious gastronomes in France.
His chef is one of the most noted men Of
his craft in the world, and is the inventor
of number Of culinary chefs d'9uvre.
DR.. Chauncey M. Depew's drawing room
is spacious apartment in which forty
guests can easily be seated. A handsome
mahogany sideboard contains fine display
Of rare china that is all of historical in
terest.
Walter Damrosch is said to be the most
widely admired man among New York
women. The marriage of the distinguished
orchestra leader to Secretary Blaine's
daughter did not diminish his popularity
with women in the slightest degree
Vice President Morton's country home at
Rhinecliff, N Y, is provided with $50 in
candescent lamps. Should any window or
door be tampered with by burglars
special automatic switching device will
throw into circuit n number of lights.
Hannibal Hamlin's extreme age has but
slightly bent his tall form, and he still
walks down the street with swinging
stride He is usually attired in an old
black swallowtail, and he has never dis
carded the stock and dicky of the old time
statesman.
John Blyer, a prisoner in Vanceburg,
KY, for twenty-five years, has been pa
.iently waiting for a trial. The witnesses
against him are all dead, and his identity
has so completely sunk out of recollection
that he is referred to simply rs "the dead
man in cell g."
Mr.. Morley neither rides, nor skates, nor
bicycles, nor goes a-flshing. No one ever
heard of him playing at cricket, or rowing,
and his interest in lawn tennis is solely
that of a spectator. He revels in long
walks across the hills or solitary medta-
tions in country lanes.