The record-union., 1895-01-16


wales. When they find a church altar
Which. does not appeal to their artistic
sense lhey immediately build one to their
taste and present it to the church. Dur
ing recent sojourn in Switzerland they
nullt church In little town which
| they visited
Ada Rehan likes to pick up unique
| pieces OF furniture for her house in
Nlnety-ninth street. Maude Harrison
delights IN brlc-a-brac. Maud Adams is
| quiet and studious and her taste is dis
| tlnctly in the line of books. They say
that Minnie Palmer spent some of her
hard earnings on Nuban Prince who
the title was worth it, but when she
| found that her prince was just colored
waiter III London cafe she decided to in
vest in something else.
DE Wolf Hopper spends most of his
money IN buying and staging operas. He
good. His wig bill is quite an item.
| You know he loses lot of them root
ing" for baseball; but, wig or no wig, we
all love him.
Billy Birch went broke in Wall street.
L. j. Henley spends his salary, when he
draws any, in drinks and marriage fees.
] Ted is graduate of the Kelley Institute
SO suppose he does not imbibe any
thing stronger than Vichy. But he
never sees a friend in want of "bracer''
! ii he has the price He doesn't get mar
ried every ten minutes by the clock ex-
actly, but he does get in and out of matri-
monial harness with astonishing rapidity,
/ The horses OF the New York Fire De-
partment at the first sound of the gong
are the only things that can beat him on
speed.
BUYS EVERYTHING IN SIGHT.
Atkins Lawrence is kept busy paying
alimony to his several wives. Maurice
barrymore is the dumb animals friend.
lie usually travels with four or five dogs
and pet monkey. Barry" evidently
agrees with Ouida who says: "The III ore
L SEQ OF men the more | respect dogs.n
Nobody who knows Barry would be
surprised to find snake coiled up in his
| cuff box and tame eagle under his bed.
lie Will buy anything that walks, crawls
or tiles. Ii some enterprising youngster
| OF the wild and woolly West were to
follow barrymore TO the train with a
! black bear, mountain lion and a coyote,
he would return to his shanty much
! better Oft in purse and Barry" would
bring his happy family home in bag
| gage-car.
Pauline Hall, if reports are true, has
not much money to throw away nova
days, put she is an enthusiastic bicyclist,
and gets plenty Of fresh air and exercise.
Ii health is wealth Pauline should not
! complain.
Cora TANNER has mania for jewelry,
and Sylvia Gerrish for silk stockings and
exquisite shoes. Alice Harrison had the
good sense TO invest her earnings in
minlng stock in California years ago;
she is therefore Independent. Her great
est happiness is to procure all the COM
j forts and many of the luxuries of life
! lor her mother, to whom she is devoted
Thomas Whitfen is a book fiend, and
has hne library. Dickens is his idol.
Mention David Copperfield to him and in
Jl1y this is what you will hear: 1.-The
twins have ceased to derive their nutri-
! ment from natures fount. In short,
SAID MI. NlcaW Der, in burst of conf
dence, The twins are weaned.'" This,
! IN his funny, lnimitable voice. followed
| by 'Oh, beautifulp' He actually smacks
his lips over Dickens, and 1 don't blame
| him.
Robert Cotton, the lengthy comedian.
buys every paper and magazine pub
Hshed IN America, England and France.
he says that the advertisements in the
! CttppeT are funnier than anything in
LIje, Judge or Puck. Low Dockstader' s
money goes IN paying up old debts. He
expects to be ION velvet some time.
Tony Pastor is noted for unostenta-
! tlous charity; that sounds paradoxical,
but let 1t pass. Herbert Kelley and Fred
HalIen give their tailors vast sums to
! make them look pretty, so they can give
the broadway girls a treat every day.
Joe Hart buys all the comic papers of the
! world. He has all the jokes that appear
in foreign languages translated for use in
| his business. Frank Mayo has spent a
! great deal of his cash on the musical edu-
cation OF his daughter.
LIKE THE MAN IN THE SONG.
William Hoey goes to Europe every
summer TO try TO break the bank at
| Monte Carlo He sang so long about the
man who did accomplish this feat that he
| has had the fever ever since. Deuman
| thompson hauntS race tracks and is a
| 'plunger." John Wild has a cellar fuIl
OF an eccentric wardrobe. If he meets a
darky in the street and takes fancy to a
coat or vest or pair of trousers worn by
| the dusky gentleman, he will at once be-
gin negotiations which generally end in
! johns possessing the coveted apparel
Now cut out John Wild and the darky
and substitute Walter Jones and the
| tramp and you get another mans hobby.
Eddie koy likes to get first editions of
! boOks-Shakesp peare in the lead. Some
| Of his friends think collection of SPELL
! ing books would be the real thing for
Eddie. William II. Thompson smokes
the best cigars, and smokes all the time.
| Harrigan is another book-hunter His
| favorite poet is Byron. Shrewd Mrs.
! Langtry invests in real estate. The late
! John L. Raymond was an indefatigable
collector OF coins, and Harry Edwards,
who died a few years ago, had marvel
Gus collection of insects, which was sold
after his death for several thousand dol
lars. Max Freeman cannot resist an
| tique jewelry.
Women of the stage have always had
the collecting craze. l have known some
of them to collect souvenir towels from
! the different hotels and forget to men
| tlon it. The souvenir spoon fever ragged
violently throughout the profession for
two or three years, but seems to be SUBJ
siding now. l saw one young man about
a year ago making up set of these coffee
spoons to send to his mother. Less than
! q week atterward he was dining at
! French restaurant and when waiter ap-
| preached and asked if he would have a
! demi-tasse he replied, Yes, thanks, and
| a large cup Of coffee.'
! thought OF those poor spoons never to
serve their dainty purpose, but to go on
| exhibition with the family album.-Miss
| Sou Drette in New York World.
"Yie1d Not to Misfortune"
was afflicted with catarrh last autumn.
! During the month of October | could
| l,pjtba- NOR small and cOnI5 haor h.,