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Show MEN YOU HEAR OF. Gen. Lew Wallace writes a small and neat hand, which is m clear and legible as copper plate. Professor E. Stone Wiggins, the Canadian Cana-dian weather prophet, believes tn the transmigration of souls. Dr. Herrick Johnson, of Chicago, is pointed out as the most expert croquet player among the doctors of divinity who indulge in that intellectual game. Dr. Pellegrini, the new president of the Argentine Republic, is of English grand parentage and a cousin of the late John Bright His father was an Italian engineer. Senator George, of Mississippi, wears his hair very long, and when he gets excited ex-cited in debate it streams out from his head. Imparting a leonine aspect of his tout ensemble. Oscar Wilde plays on tho piano, and he has been confiding to the public that when he plays Chopin he feels as though he had been crying over sins that he had never committed. Governor Abbett, of New Jersey, is a great reader. He has always kept up with current literature, and is well informed in-formed regarding the tendency of fiction in these later days. Robert P. Porter, the superintendent of the census, has the physique of an athlete. He is an active, clean shaven man, dark coinplexioned, with black eyes and black hair. Lawrence Barrett was at one time a clerk in a Detroit dry goods store. That was early in the fifties, when he was merely a young Irish lad, with no aspiration aspira-tion for theatrical honors. Minister William Walter Phelps writes from Germany to Representative .Beck-with, .Beck-with, who is holding down his congressional congres-sional seat, that he does not propose to resign and run for congress. John Tinsley, a colored man, who remembers re-members Washington and knew Hancock and Hopkins, two of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, lives in Toronto, Ontario, at the ago of 107 years. Senator Kenna, of West Virginia, has rented a workshop near his residence, and may be found there any day working on h boat which he is building for navigating nav-igating the upper waters of tho Potomac. At Bowdoin college, where Speaker Roed was educated, and where there nsed to be, and may be yet, a constant struggle between "town and country," he once, single handed, disposed of three lumbermen who set upon him. John Tinsley, living in Toronto, claims to be 107 years old. He is hale and hearty. He says he smoked once in 1800, but never since, but has been in the habit of taking a little liquor. He him worn spectacles for eight years. State Senator Coggoshall, of New York, recently crossed the Rocky mountains mount-ains on the cowcatcher of a train. Hp says he was so impressed with the grand-ness grand-ness of the scenery that at times he felt like shouting like an untamed redskin. red-skin. ' 1 |