The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-14
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MASCULINE MENTION.

Cardii, al Gibbons has a fine face, with
clean cUh features, keen eyes that have in
them an expression of benignity, and easy
and gentle manners.
John Bright once spoke of Cyrus W.
Field as the Columbus of modern times"
who by his cable had moored the New
World alongside the Old.
George w. Childs' first hit in the pub
fishing line was with 'Dr. Kane's Arctic
Explorations, which yielded the author
nearly &c. 900 within year.
Senator Proctor has long worn a full
beard, except that he shaved his upper lip.
He is now growing a mustache, and it is
said to change his appearance greatly.
The Rothscllild brothers of London
Baron Lionel, Alfred and Leopold-are
noted for their transformations charity,
great love of order and attention to bust
ness.
Colonel J. J. Slocun, the manager Of
Russell Sage's Wall street Office, is the
brother of Mrs. Sage, and Union veteran
who had two sons graduated from West
Point.
Major McClaughry, superintendent of
the Chicago police, was carefully educated
at an Illinois Presbyterian college with the
expectation that he would enter the
church.
CAPTAIN J. B. Ford. founder of the plate
glass industry in America, is to have
statue erected in his honor by his own
workmen Captain Ford resides in Pitts
burg and is now eighty years old and a
millionaire
The Rev. A. NJ. Hassell, of Laurens
county, S. c., says that however wild his
reighbor, Senator Irby, was in his youth,
he is now a man of unblemished morals,
''who does not swear, gamble or drink in
toxicants," and who pays his debts"
Congressman Hatch, of Missouri, is noted
ss a sportsman He makes long and fire.
euent hunting expeditions, and likes to sit
at table and tell about his exploits with
gun and rife He is man of commanding
presence, ready speaker and a good story
teller.
Old Red Cloud, the notorious Sioux
chief, is now living in disgrace and nearly
blind. He still fingers around the Chadron
agency, a wreck of his former self, and
though still popular with his tribe seems
10 be neglected by all except his faithful
old wife.
One Of the best coin collections in this
country, it is believed, is that of General
Gates p. Thurston, Of Nashville. The Eng
Esh series is said to be almost complete
from the Saxon heptarchy down to the
Victorian issues, including good types of
Edward the Confessor and of the early
Edwards and Henrys.
DR.. D. z. Seymour, of Calais, Me-, bears
n close resemblance to General Malone, the
Virginia politician. On train in West
Virginia recently he passed through car
In which family party were seated. The
father and mother nodded pleasantly to
him, the girls smiled and the small boy
swung his hat and shouted, "Hurrah for
Billy Mahonel'
Sir John Gorst, the new British postmas-
Ter general, early in his career edited
newspaper in the Waikato district of New
Zealand. But in the course of war the
natives attacked and ransacked his Office,
and converted his type into slugs for their
rifles. Then they peppered Sir John him
self and nearly killed him with some of
this ammunition.
John N. Thurston, the prominent Ne
braska lawyer, saw a great deal of poverty
In the days when be was first practicing in
Omaha. His wife now tells with great
pride how he used to buy box of crackers
and piece Of cheese and live on them ex-
clusively until the stock was exhausted.
He could scarcely scrape together the
necessary money to buy marriage license
with