The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-01-08
MASCULINE MENTION.

Mr.. Voorhees,. of Indiana, puts the largest
lead in the senate under his "a hat.
Earl Russell is over six feet high and,
1uiet looking as he is. knows how to use
his fists
Gladstone has been paid as high as
81, 900 for 5000 words. Recently he was
given $500 for 900 words.
Baron Won Zuyllan is said to have the
finest stables in the world-finer even
than those of the emperor of Russia. They
are in Paris.
As he grows older Fred Grant becomes
more and more like his father in personal
appearance Sometimes, it is declared
this resemblance is startling.
Congressman McMillin says that for
seven years he made it practice to com
nit a poem to memory before breakfast
every morning in order to put himself in
pleasant frame of mind for the day.
| President Eliot, of Harvard, bears on
| the right side of his face bright red birth
| mark. He is rather sensitive about it. He
prefers to present the natural side of his
face to the person with whom he is talking.
Speaker Crisp has very clear complex
ion blue eyes, straight, well formed nose
and brown mustache. His head is bald
and his manners refined. He generally
wears black frock coat and dark clothes
and necktle.
Young Congressman Bailey, of Texas, is
nearly six feet tall. He wears a broad
brimmed SLOUGH hat. His manners are, it
is said, good enough to do credit to a
Chesterfield and he can converse as wittily
in private as he can speak persuasively
from the stump.
Claus Spreckels, the sugar king, is
man of swarthy face, which contrasts
sharply with his white hair and white
beard He is of German parentage and
never tried to learn English well, so that
when he speaks rapidly it is difficult mat
ter to understand him.
Count Herbert Bismarck's resemblance
to his great father is said to grow more
striking as years roll on. There is also in
his face Il Renaissance of his stately and
beautiful mother Johanna Won Puttkam.
mer, who was welded to "the mad Bis
marck," as he was then called, in lS47.
The owEor of the biggest head in the
world is Lotus Jones Parker of Louisiana
avenue, Washington, forty eight years of
age, and highly respected man and citi-
zen Mr. Parker's Uranium is thirty-two
inches, or nearly yard in circumference,
while the ordinary mans is but twenty or
twenty lone inches in girth.
Senator d. B. Hill carries scar on his
neck which was received while he was
practicing law in Elmira A crank called
on him at his office and without any warn
ing threw himself upon Mr.. Hill and
plunged ii knife into his neck. Mr.. Hill at
once proceeded to knock him down. took
the weapon from him and held him until
officers arrived.
Cyrus Field is one of the few Americans
who have % standing acquaintance with
Queen Victoria. Mr.. Fields part in The
laying of the early Atlantic cables OBJ
tanned for him presentation to the queen
that meant rather more than such things
usually mean, and the acquaintance of
many years ago has been kept up by occa-
sional meetings and communications
Mr.. James Brown, who lives near Beal-
ington, in BraXton county, w. Va, has
probably the largest beard in this country.
He is six feet in height, and has neither
shaved nor trimmed his beard or mustache
for thirty years The ends of his mustache
extend beyond his fingers ends when his
arms are outstretched. He carries his
wonderful beard and mustache braided
and tucked inside his shirt.