The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-31
MASCULINE MENTION.

Millionaire Brown, of Denver, was car
| penter.
Governor Brown, of Georgia, wears q
| pair of cuff links made of brass buttons
| cut from Confederate soldiers coat
Superintendent Blood. of the Camden
| and Atlantic railroad system, was twenty
| years ago water boy on the Long Island
| road.
Congressman Curtis, the one eyed rep
resentative from New York, is known
about Washington as the Cyclops of the
house
Auburn, Me-, has the youngest city So
licitor on record. His name is Charles B.
Mitchell, and he is only twenty-one years
of age.
Representative Wilson, of West Virginia,
is said to be the most learned member of
the house, and Culberson, of Texas, the
best lawyer.
Representative Boutelle, of Maine, is
said to be the handsomest man in the
house, and Bingham, of Pennsylvania, the
best dressed.
Commodore Henry Bruce, of the United
States navy, is rinety-fve years of age and
is supposed to be the oldest living naval Of
fcer in the world.
Ex-Congressman George W. Weber, of
Ionia, Mich, is rejoicing in the birth of a
first and only SOD. Mr. Weber is sixty
seven years old and worth half million
dollars.
Governor Eagle, of Arkansas, is by occu-
patton farmer and by inclination preach
er. Baptist congregations sometimes in
vite him to fill the pulpit, and he is said to
be really eloquent.
Andrew Carnegie says that when boy
he promised his mother never to marry
during her lifetime, and he kept his prom
Use, his marriage occurring two years after
his mothers death.
Archbishop Ireland was an Irish emf
grant to this country forty-three years ago.
Part of his clerical education was received
in France. He was chaplain of Minnesota
regiment during the civil war.
The young Earl OF Dudley, having sold
his race horses, forsworn betting and given
up gambling, is steadily striving to obtain
recognition as a serious politician He is
blessed with wife who possesses brains.
Governor Russell, of Massachusetts, in
variably lunches at the Union club. The
governor is a leisurely diner, and the salt
Of companionable conversation is as indis-
pensable an adjunct to his meal as the cafe
noir.
Mr.. Justice Lamar's wretched health is
said to be largely due to his great ABSORB
tion 10 his books. He is almost unman-
ageable by his wife when he once gets into
his library. He is passionately fond Of
reading.
Sam Small, the evangelist, has grown
beard that curiously alters his appear
ance. He also, much as he has had to say
against dudes, shines Respondent in patent
leather shoes and very elegant black
frock coat.
Surgeons grave in Norwood cemetery
is marked by simple marble slab bearing
the inscription &C. H. Sturgeon" Mrs.
Spurgeon has suggested that the word
Waiting" be added, and the suggestion
is to be carried out.
Senator FELTON, acquired his first capital
by watching haystack, shotgun in hand,
for a month to repel marauders. For this
service he was paid $500 in gold; seemingly
q fabulous sum. but that was in the flush
times Of the Argonaut days.
Sir George Baden Powell, who has rep
resented Great Britain at the Behring sea
conference in Washington. is a shrewd
looking man of athletic build, with iron
gray hair and sparse mustache, and is es-
sentially English as to makeup.