People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-30
MASCULINE MENTION.

Congressman John Il. Fellows is an In
veterate whist player
President Low, of Columbia college, is
an accomplished cornet player.
Mr.. CIarkson, of the national Republic
an committee. is not a general and does
not like to be called by that title.
DR. Parkhurst, of New York, has many
offers to go out lecturing upon the slum
life of that city, but declines them all.
DR.. T. De Witt Talmage says that the
only musical instrument on which he can
play without being prompted is the jews
harp.
DR.. Henry A. Slade, the spiritualist,
whose career in London and subsequent
trial for fraud caused a sensation fourteen
years ago, is insane.
The bishop of Chichester, DR.. Durnford,
has Just completed his ninetieth year and
is still in active service, capable of dis
charging all official duties.
General f. J. Lippitt, of Washington, is
the only survivor of the few who, standing
at the grave, witnessed the interment of
Lafayette. He was then youth residing
in Paris.
Editor John Brisbin Walker, of The
Cosmopolitan Magazine, is out in card
denying that he had made s., 100000 in d
real estate deal He says he has only made
S1,0000 600.
Stanton P. Allen, the author of the new
war book, Down in Dixie, was private
in calvary regiment during the war, after
that newspaper man and has now entered
the ministry.
NJ GaIIand, the well known French art
list, is giving the finishing touches to fine
series of panels intended for the marble
room' of Whitelaw Reid's house on Madi-
son avenue, New York.
The late Duke of Marlborough was in
sured for about 81 800 000 and allowing for
the policies in the hands of the money
lenders it is supposed that there will be a
million or SO reserved for the duchess
Signor Gioletti, the Italian politician,
can bend a horseshoe with one hand and
double up a five franc piece in his palm.
Sometimes he amuses himself and aston
ishes his friends by tearing up an entire
pack of cards.
Mr.. George w. Childs has the very harp
that the people of Limerick presented to
Tom Moore, ''the pride of all circles and
the idol of his own" Moore's widow gave
the harp to an English earl, who in turn
presented it to George w. Childs.
Mr.. Graham, of Dingwall Scotland, a
bOyish companion of Mr.. Gladstone, says
the latter's mother used to intrust the
future G. o. M. with the household purse
when he was but boy, and used to call
him her chancellor of the exchequer.
After one of the hardest 'knockouts" anv
Wall street operator ever received James
r. Keene is again the acknowledged
leader of speculation in the street. For
the third time in his history the CaIifor-
MAN is again rated as multimillionaire,
Nathaniel S. Barry, Of Bristol, N. H, is
the oldest living ex-governor of a state in
the United States If he survives until
Sept. 1, 1896, he will be centenarian. He
was boy of very humble parentage be-
came a tanner, as General Grant did, and
in 1851 was elected governor of New Hamp-
shire.
Canon Farrar has been quoted recently
as saying that if all the books in the world
were in blaze those that he would hasten
to snatch from the flames would be the
Bible, "The Imitation of Christ" by
Thomas Kempis; Homer, AEschylus.
Thucydides, Tacitus. Virgil, Marcus Au-
relius, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton and
Wordsworth.