Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-01-23
MASCULINE MENTION.

Mr.. voorhees,, of Indiana, puts the largest
head in the senate under his ia hat.
Earl Russell is over SIX feet high and,
quiet looking as he Is, knows how to use
his fists.
Gladstone has been paid as high as
5000 for $500 words. Recently he was
given 500 for 600 words.
Baron Won ZuyIlan is said to have the
finest stables in the world-tiner 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 McAnllin says that for
seven years he made it practice TO COM
init 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 a very clear complex
ion, blue eyes, straight, well formed nose
and a brown mustache. His head is bald
and his manners refined. He generally
wears black frock coat and dark clothes
and necktie.
Young Congressman Bailey, of Texas, is
nearly six feet tall. He wears broad
brimmed SLOUGH hat His manners are, it
is said, good enough TO do credit to
Chesterfield and he can converse as wittily
in private as he can speak persuasiyely
from the stump
Claus Spreckels, the sugar king, is a
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 a diflicult 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 Renaissance of his stately ant
beautiful mother, johanna Won Puttkam-
mer, who was welded to the mad Bis
marck," as he was then called, in 1877.
The owner of the biggest head in the
world is LOTUS Jones Parker, of Louisiana
avenue, Washington, weight years of
age, ana mighty respected man diltl Clll-
zen Mr.. Parker's Uranium is thirty-two
inches or nearly yard in circumference,
while the ordinary mans is but twenty or
twenty-one inches in girth.
Senator D. b. Hill carries scar on his
neck which was received while he was
practieing law in Emira. y crank called
on him at his office and without any warn
ing threw himself upon Mr. Hill and
plunged a knife into his neck. Mr. Hill at
once proceeded to knock him down, took
the weapon from him and held him until
officers arrived.
Gyms Field is ore 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 myers ends when his
arms are outstretched. He carries his
wonderful beard and mustache braided
and tucked inside his shirt,