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Show three surviving Confederate generals, the other two being Gens. Beauregard and Johnston. His erect and soldierly figure, topped, as it were, with a crown of strong white hair, attracts general attention. Joseph Medill, editor of The Chicago Tribune, is reported to be one of the richest newspaper men in the United States, his fortune being estimated at from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000. He is 65 years of age, and spends from eight to j ten hours a day in The Tribune office. ' I A gentleman who was recently visit-j visit-j lng Edison's laboratory, and whose son i was about to enter upon his first em-' em-' ployment, asked Edison to give him a motto for the boy, go that he might have it as a-stimulus and guide. Mr. Edison laughed a little at the novel request, and I then said, "Well, I'll give him this, I 'Never look at the clock.' " MEN . YOU HEAR OF. The late Pope Pius IX occupied tho papal throne from 1846 to 1878. This ; was the longest reign of any pope on record. . i William B. Irwin, who died recently t. in Harrisburgr. Pa., was ; delegate to the convention which nominated Lincoln Lin-coln in 1800. President W. A. Qualt, of Baker university, uni-versity, Baldwin, Kan., is only 30. He is said to be tho youngest college president presi-dent in the world. i Gen. Noyes, of Ohio, who dropped dead in Cincinnati recently, lost his leg :. while leading a brilliant and successful charge during the late war. Professor F. W. Newman, brother of the late cardinal, is now 83 years of age. At 62 he turned vegetarian, and since then has needed no physician. ' Dr. Carlos Pellegrini, the new president presi-dent of the Argentine Republic, is 48 years old. He is the eon of an Italian architect who emigrated to Euenos Ayres in 1825. . Dr. Reuben Samuels, husband of the mother of Frank and Jesse James, is one of the best housekeepers in Missouri. Mis-souri. He can cook, bake, wash and iron, and employs his time mostly in the performance of domestic duties. ' William Waldorf Astor has been elected elect-ed an honorary citizen of Waldorf, the little German town in which John Jacob Astor the first was born, and to which Mr. Astor sent 50,000 marks for an Astor memorial in memory of his father. Col. R. C. Batchelder, recently made quartermaster general of the American army, when the war broke out, being unused to riding, used to practice on horseback at night on a New Hampshire farm till he felt at home in the saddle. Gen. E. Kirby Smith is one of the i' - i I |