The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-07
MASCULINE MENTION.

| General Edward S. Bragg is small, viz
orous, alert and able.
Congressman Springer claims that his
ancestry extends back to the Saxon Kine
| Egbert.
Ex-Governor Nathaniel S. Berry, of New
Hampshire, now ninety-five years of age
is the oldest of all living ex-governors.
In his lecture on Shakespeare, at Indian
apolis, Colonel Ingersoil said: ''The su
! imest line in the English language is,
| Love is not love that alters when it altera-
| ton finds"
Judson c. Clements, of Georgia, newly
| appointed interstate commerce commits
sioner, is a Baptist deacon and clerk Of
the Georgia Baptist association and its
Sunday school convention.
One of the largest salaries received by
any man in this country is paid to Mr.. c.
A. Griscom, chief Of the international Nav
igation company, with headquarters at
Philadelphia. He draws $4,000 a year
and they say he earns it.
Ex-Governor John W. Stewart was not
permitted to retire TO private life by the
people of Vermont. Last session he went
to congress and this year he is serving his
town OF Middlebury as selectman at
salary OF fifteen dollars year.
Mr.. Gladstone receives no end of appli-
cations for locks Of his hair. To one CT
these requests he replied a few days ago
that age has left him such scanty amount
that he would be quite bald if he were to
grant even few such favors.
The twin brothers, Thomas F. Hibbard
and George B. Hubbard, of Brooklyn, re-
Gently celebrated their SEVENTEEN birth
day. Excepting that ones hair is much
whittier than the others they still bear their
original similarity of resemblance.
The only survivor of the brave band Of
Texan patriots who signed the Declaration
of Texas Independence at Washington, on
the Brazos river, March 9, 1886, is w. c..
Crawford, who now, at the age of eighty
six, is living in destitution at Alyaredo.
The Marquis de Mores, who tried hard
to kill Nj. Isaac in a recent duel, was the
SWEETEST ranchman that ever beautified
the plains of Montana He was accus-
toned to wear silk shirts, and boots that
would have won the heart of stage hero.
Representative Belknap, of Michigan, Is
fonder of his literary work than of any
oratorical or congressional triumph. He
is a great narrator of war stories and he
has fund of them, for he was captain
at seventeen and was wounded seven times
during the war.
NJ. c. Creole, whom the mines of the
new camp in Colorado have made a mil
ionaire, is native of Illinois, who went
to Colorado twenty years ago and has since
been prospecting all over that state. He is
described as ''the most genial and unaf-
fected fellow in the whole diggings."
Senator Proctor is fast becoming known
as the wag of the senate. He has such a
slow, ponderous voice and solemn face that |
those not well acquainted with him are
unaware of his abilities as wit In the |
cloakroom, however, during long debates,
his humor becomes manifest and has full |
play.
Baron Won Fielder, of Vienna, has sold |
his famous collection of butterflies to Lord |
Ro:hschiid, of London, for S25, 600 The |
baron, who Is now seventy-eight years Of |
age, believed that he was too old to care |
for his collection properly. 1t is said that |
Lord Rothschild intends to leave his col |
lection, now the finest in the world, to the !
British museum when he dies.
Since he left the senate Mr.. Edmunds !
has a much more youthful step and ap- |
pearance than he had the last year or two |
he was member, the result of frequent |
outdoor exercise. He says he has become |
quite a boy again, and explains that
those old fellows in the senate were so |
grave and serious that a man got to feel
ing very old by associating with them"