The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17

MASCULINE MENTION

An Australian mountain was named
after Mr.. Gladstone last year.
President Harrison invariably drops a
crisp new bill carefully folded into the
contribution plate.
Henry George has no more jealous dis
ciple than Congressman Johnson, of Cleve-
land, who is almost millionaire.
Senator Call seems to have fallen heir TO
Ingalls, famous red necktie, for he alone
among senators wears a flaming crimson
scarf
Congressman Reed, of Maine, is the larg-
est man in the house, Wheeler, of Alabama,
is the smallest, and Curtis, of New York.
is the tallest
John II. Innlan, the richest man of the
south, was a drummer boy in the Confed-
crate army, and when the war was over be
did not have cent or friend to help him.
1t is said that Seaborn Wright is the
most magnetic public speaker in Georgia.
He is a youthful citizen of Rome, with all
the eloquent diction of an old Roman ora
tor.
1t has been said of James c. Carter, the
New York lawyer, that he stands now
where Evarts stood twenty years ago, and
where Charles O'Conor stood before him
at the head of the legal profession in New
York
Eugene Field dined dozen or more lit
erary friends in the Union League club,
Chicago, recently. All the distinguished
guests got to eat was corned beef hash,
boiled potatoes, saleratus biscuits and but
termilk.
Oscar Wilde has introduced new flower
into London buttonholes 1t is a brilliant
green hybrid, produced by overculture out
Of the creamy white carnation. 1t is big
and expensive, and it promises to bring
Oscar as much glory as did the sunfower.
John and Samuel Manning, twin broth
Frs, living on the same farm near Reserve,
Ind, married twin sisters in 1881, both of
whom died in 1882 In 1891 the brothers
became acquainted with twin sisters named
Swope, and there was another double mar
riage.
Mr.. Allison, of Iowa, is said to be an
ideal senator-studious, polite, stately,
popular and immensely useful to the sem
ate as well as to his constituents As for
hisl personal appearance he is described
as ''weli fed, well groomed, sleek and
smooth"
The largest landowner in the San Joaquin
valley, California, is Henry Miller, who has
under his individual control more than
100000 acres. In 1850 Miller was butcher
boy without a cent in the world He is
said to be now worth between $50, 900, 900
and S4o,000,0O0
While in California recently Andrew
Carnegie admitted that he was worth be-
tween $50, 00o, 600 and $35, 600, 900, and said
ne intended to spend every penny of it be-
fore he died. Incidentally he confessed he
was confirmed agnostic and should give
nothing to any church.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has become dissatis-
fled with his palatial residence on Fifth
avenue, New York, and will build a new
one at a cost Of s., 100000. This palace is
be erected on Fifth avenue, between Fifty
seventh and Fifty eighth streets, and will
be the most magnificent in the city.
DR.. Henry Slade, the celebrated medium
and clairvoyant, was sick in Michigan re-
GENTLY and called in a physician, who sub
sequently declared that Slade was wom-
an. Slade is said to have admitted the
fact at the time but afterward denied it,
saying that he was ian awful liar when
sick "