Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-04
MASCULINE MENTION.
An Australian mountain was nance
after Mr. Gladstone last year.

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 a 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. Inman, the richest man of the
south, was drummer boy in the Confed-
crate army, and when the war was over he
did not have n 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 g. 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 a 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 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 rs did the sunfiower.
John and Samuel Manning, twin broth
ers, living on the same farm near Reserve
Ind, married twin sisters in 1881, both Of
whom died in 1889 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 sen
ate as well as to his constituents. AS fol
his, personal appearance he is described
as "well fed, well groomed, sleek ant
smooth"
The largest landowner in the San joaquin
valley, California, is Henry Miller, who ha
under his individual control more thai
900 coo acres. In 1850 Miller was a butche
boy without a cent in the world. He i
said to be now worth between 100000
and S40000,OOO.
While in California recently Andrew
Carnegie admitted that he was worth be
tween S30OOO,OOO and S35, 0O0, 900, and sal
, he intended to spend every penny of it be
fore he died. Incidentally he confessed b
was a confirmed agnostic and should Civ
n nothing to any church.
a Cornelius Vanderbilt has become dissati'
fed with his palatial residence on FIT
avenue, New York, and will build a ne'
+ one at a cost of S2,OOO0O0. This palace
0 be erected on Fifth avenue, between FIT!
seventh and Fifty eighth streets, and wi
=, be the most magnificent in the city
/ DIR. Henry Slade, the celebrated mediul
n and clairvoyant, was sick in Michigan r
Gently and called in a physician, who SUI
seduently declared that Slade was won
r an. Slade is said to have admitted q
It fact at the time, but afterward denied
D. saying that he was ian awful liar wht
sick"