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Show -- 'MEN "YOU HEAR OF. John Ruskxn feels buoyant and elastic oo 8 bright, clear day, buton a dull, wet day bo is moody and misanthropic. Andrew Carnegie paid $3,000 for the flowers and decorations alone at a recent big dinner which he gave in Washington. Senator Edmunds is reputed to make $50,000 a year from hiB law practice, and it is said , some of his arguments have brought him $10 a word. Edwin Booth is accredited by his friends with being tho lazieiit man on earth when off the stage. If he goes six blocks on foot he says he is tired. Gilbert, the English dramatist, begins his literary work at about midnight, and keeps on writing until the sun has risen. Ho is a great consumer of cigarettes. Resorder Smyth, tho terror of New York evil doers, is a keen featured, clean shaven man of rather sinister expression, with a gray fringe of chin whiskers, and suffers his back hair to turn over on his collar. Sir John Millais, the great English artist, has curly hair that is hardly touched with gray and bright eyes that do not show any trace of their affliction that of long sightedness. Millais' terms for a portrait are $15,000. The late Wirt Dexter, of Chicago, once made a remark that it had been the ambition am-bition of his life to kill fifty mallard ducks in one day, and that he had spent $20,000 trying to do it. He eventually succeeded, and at his death he had a record rec-ord of 135 ducks a day. Ex-Secretary of War Belknap grows rounder and jollier and redder in the face every year. He is a gastronome, a wit and a splendid story teller. His income as a claim agent is $10,000 to $15,000 a year, and he spends every cent of it. He has a lovely family and a luxurious home in Washington. "Mr. Stanley" says the great explorer's secretary, "is a delightful companion. His temper is most equable. It takes a great deal to rouse bis anger, but when angry it is best to get out of bis way as quickly as possible. Yet he is most generous gen-erous to all really in need, and never tires of doing anything which he believes will boof benefit to any one." j |