The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-03-17
Masculine Mention.

Cardinal Gibbons has fine face, with
clean cut features, keen eyes that have
in them an expression OF benignity, ane
easy and gentle manners.
| John Bright once spoke of Cyrus w.
| Field as 'sthe 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 10000 within q year.
Senator Proctor has long worn a full
beard, except that he shaved his upper
lip. Heis now growing mustache, and
it is said to change his appearance
greatly.
The Rothchild brothers of London
Baron Lionel, Alfred and Leopold-are
noted for their transformations charity
great love of order and attention to busi>
ness.
Colonel J. j. Slocum, the manager of
Russo II Sage's Wall street Office, is the
brother of Mrs. Sage, and Union veter-
an who had two sons graduated from
West Point
Major McClaughry, superintendent of
the Chicago police, was carefully edu-
Gated at an Illinois Presbyterian college
with the expectation that he 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
Pittsburg and is now eighty years old
and millionaire
The Rev. A. M Hassell of Laurens
county, 8. c., says that however wild his
neighbor, 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 as sportsman. He makes long
and frequent hunting expeditions, and
likes to sit at a table and tell about his
exploits with gun and rifle He is a man
commanding presence, ready speaker
and 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 to 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
English series is said to be AIM ost CONS
plete from the Saxon heptarchy down to
t he Victorian issues, including good
types of Edward the ConfesSor and of
the early Edwards and Henrys.
DR.. D. E. Seymour, of Calais, Me.
bears a close resemblance to General
Malone, the Virginia politician. On a
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
and shouted, "Hurrah for Billy Ma
hone !"
Sir John Gorst, the new British post
master general, early in his career edited
a newspaper in the Waikato district OF
New Zealand. But in the course of a
war the natives attacked and ransacked
his office, and converted his type into
slugs for their rifles. Then they pepper
ed Sir John himself and nearly killed
him with some of this ammunition.
John NJ Thurston, the prominent Ne>
braska lawyer, saw great deal of pow
erty in the days when he was first prac-
ticing in Omaha. His wife now tells
with great pride how he used to buy a
box of crackers and piece of cheese and
live on them exclusively until the stock
was exhausted. He could scarcely scrape
together the necessary money to buy a
IN arriage license with.