Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-12
MASCULINE MENTION.

Senator Berry, of Arkansas, has only one
leg.
Congressman Geary, of California, the
author Of the anti-Chinese bill, is native
of Boston
Ex-Governor Slaflin, of Massachusetts,
is well preserved, elderly gentleman,
with face Of strong intelligence and very
courteous manners
Peter Avrell Browne Widener, the trac.
ton twenty millionaire was named for
Peter A. Browne, one of Philadelphia's
most learned lawyers.
Senator Richard Coke, of Texas, is in
different to his personal appearance He
never wears a cravat, but his long gray
beard makes the absence of it unnotice-
able.
Senator Eyarts once said, in reference to
the charge that he preferred to wear an
ancient hat, that he sometimes bought
as many as eight new pieces of headgear
year.
Senior Romero, the Mexican minister has
acquired the reputation of being the most
astute OF the diplomatists in Washington.
He has been known to pass sixteen hours
at his desk.
is particularly proud of the fact that he
has never broken an engagement of any
sort and has always been on time when
keeping an appointment
Rochefort, already under sentence of i'm
prisonment for life for conspiracy, is serv-
ing out with great sang froid in London
his new sentence of twelve months i'm
prisonment for libeling the public prose
cutor in Paris.
Neal Dow has been making scrapbooks
for many years, and he has now twenty
three very large and thick volumes. He
proposes to bequeath them to collections
of archives to be placed in the Temperance
temple at Chicago.
The two oldest pensioners on the rolls of
the New York pension Office, and two of
the oldest in the United States, although
pensioners are proverbially long lived, are
General Upper and General Daley. They
are veterans Of 1872.
M. Goron, chief Of the Paris detective
force, wears a military mustache dresses
fashionably and is generally seen with
burning cigar between his fingers NJ.
Goron believes in sitting at his desk and
thinking out mysteries.
Young Arthur, son Of the late President
Arthur, knows how to handle the ribbons
Of a stagecoach and looks well when
perched upon the box seat tooling a four
finland Of spanking bays and having ev-
cry seat filed with his admiring friends.
Colonel jerome Bonaparte is described
by Kate Field as a man with the most cor
rect taste in the matter of dining Of any
man in Washington. Kate adds that he
is one Of those persons who will always
carry walking stick, but will never
need it.
Ex-Governor Robert L. Taylor, of Ten
nessee, is very much in love with his work
in the lecture field. II have more fun in
week now" he said the other day, than
had in a year as governor I'm glad I'm
out Of Office, and ! think Pm done with
politics"
NJ Inandi, a young Frenchman, aston
ished the Paris Academy of Sciences by
solving the most abstruse problems off
hand He can multiply or divide sums of
twenty-four figures mentally without a
blunder, but in all other intellectual ways
he is dull.
The young Bay State congressman, John
@. Crosby, though only thirty-two years
old, is a college graduate, a lawyer, mem
Der for six years of the school board, and
he sat for two years in the Massachusetts
house Of representatives and two years In
the state senate.
PROFESSIONALLY the oldest New Yorker
is Colonel Charles Barclay Happen. He
was ninety-six years old on Feb. 8, 1892
and has lived in New York city for eighty
years. He was born in Hanover, Morris
county, n Y, where his grandfather set
tied just before the Revolution.
Uncle Joshua Barstow, an inmate of the
National Soldiers home at Togus, Me, is
one Of the oldest printers IN the country,
and takes great pride in the fact that Hor-
ace Greeley once worked at his elbow, and
that he and Horace often raced for "fat
take" that came next on the hook.
Colonel A. X. Mcclure, editor of the
Philadelphia Times, was attending Grant
banqust ON the evening that his office was
burned. Intelligence Of the fire was
brought him as he was about TO respond
TO the toast, "The Press" Fastening to
the scene, he saw the case was hopeless
and coollY returned to the festivities.