Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-06-26
MASCULINE MENTION.

Mr.. Ow is city councilman of Eldorado,
Kan.
Ex-President Cleveland has remarkable
memory for faces
The tallest man in Parsons, Kan, is
named A Short Inch.
William Waldorf Aston, the head of his
family, is the greatest real estate owner in
the world.
Judge Cooley, of the interstate commerce
commission, is said TO be "a gray old shad
ow" of his former self, so poor is his health.
Leopold Bloom, the millionaire wheat
speculator of Chicago, has retired from
business. He says that he has made money
enough.
Ex-senator Blair is a sandy haired man,
with a flowing beard that is sprinkled with
gray. He is fifty-six years old, and has
served two terms in each house of congress,
Judge Wallace, of the United States cir
cult court, is i'll the fifties, above average
height, slender and of fine appearance. His
hair and mustache are iron gray and his
countenance ruddy.
Benjamin Wood, the New York news
paper proprietor though now white haired,
still enjoys life to the full, goes to the thea
tiers, and is frequently seen indulging in a
late supper at Delmonico's.
John |. Davenport, the well known Re
publican politician, started in life as Sun
day school teacher in Henry Ward Beech
er's church. He is of light build, weighs
less than 100 pounds and is an inveterate
smoker
William J. Haines, who was recently
mustered in by the Frank p. Blair Post,
g, a. r., of ST. Louis, Us one hundred and
three years old and veteran of three wars.
He is said to be the oldest soldier in the
country.
DR.. Lorimer, the famous Chicago preach
er, who accepted call to a Boston pulpit,
is n rather small and boyish looking man,
of great energy and aggressiveness. He is
one of the most engaging pulpit orators in
| America
John Loudon Macadam, the inventor OF
the road that bears his name, labored for
years to perfect bis ideas, and although the
English parliament voted him $4,000 it
hardly covered his outlay. His monu
ment is the roads of England"
Clarence A. Seward is nephew of the
late Secretary of State William H. Seward
He is one of the leading lawyers of New
York and American counsel for the Bank
Of England. He is of good height, slend, r.
and has sandy hair, now turning gray
and a gray mustache.
Ex-Governor Paul Dillingham;, who ap
pointed Mr.. Edmunds to the United States
senate quarter of a century ago, is still
alive, and lives at his home in Waterbury
VT. When Senator Edmunds resigned
recently he paid his old friend graceful
compliment by sending him copy of his
formal resignation.
Michael Tschigorin, who recently wor
the cable chess match with Mr.. Steinitz, is
forty years of age, and was born near St
Petersburg. He learned the game to which
he is now so devoted while about fifteer
years old, and in less than twelve months
could beat his master, though giving the
latter the odds of rock.
Captain NJ B. Hughes, of the Ninth cav
airy, has a curious relic of the late Genera
Crook. 1t is little wooden doll baby tina,
the old Indian fighter carved out of an ole
army wagon tongue with penknife while
on the Apache campaign in Arizona
Crook was universally known among the
Indians as the 'whittling medicine man"