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Show MEN YOU HEAR OF. The Duke of Bedford has built a pri-Tata pri-Tata crematorium at Woking. The Italian faster, Sued, Is said to have abstained from food for over 100 days. Sir Henry Parkns, the premier of New South Wales, began life as a to) maker and then he became owner of a newspaper. news-paper. Gayarre, the late great tenor, left an estate of $800,000. His nightly salary for some time had been $1,400, and he lived very modestly. P. T. Barnuni has presented to the pub-liu pub-liu library of Bridgeport a scrap book containing all the illustrations and comments com-ments of the London papers on his show wbilo it was in that city. Prince Bismarck is a man of many trades. He is a miller, a paper maker, a brick maker, an Iron master, a coat miner and a brewer all these industries being followed on his various estates under un-der his own direction. Lord Acton is considered the most learned tunn in England. He isaltoman Catholic. His library contains no leu than 100,000 volumes, all of which are carefully selected and number among them tome very rare books. Remington, tlio artist, is a man of more than average height, with a blu.ide head of hair, blue eyes arid a roy face. He has had an adventurous career, and his knowledge of Indians and cowboys was gained by actual experience. Eiiin Pasha now speaks, counting African Af-rican dialects, no fewer than twenty-seven twenty-seven different tongues, and he certainly is able to write and speak at leant balf a dozen European languages with as great ease and fluency as he spaks hi native German. Senator Brown, of Georgia, is a devoted de-voted member of the Baptist church, and lias proved his real by frequeut large contributions to the enterprises of that denomination. He made a nift of $30,000 to the Baptist Theological seminary semi-nary at Louisville, Ky. Perhaps the most inordinate smoker in the United Htates Is Thomas A. Edison, who also believes that chewing tobacco Is a good stimulant for any one eugaged in laborious brain work. He U rarely seen without a cigar in his mouth, and he has learned the art of chewing and smoking simultaneously. Professor R. Btuart Poole, of the British Brit-ish miueum, is one of the most learned men in Kngland. He is tbo first numismatist numis-matist in the world (being curator of the department of coins in the museum), one of the first Orientalists, the only man in the United Kingdom who reads archaic Persian, and one of the chief Biblical scholars of the day. |