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Show MEN YOU HEAR OF. Henrik Ibsen is 63 years old. He ia still robust in health, and believes that the creative spirit will be with him until he ia 80. Senator Ingalls receives an average of 1 ,200 letters a day. The services of two typewriters are necessary to dispose of his mail. Prosper Crabbe, whose really important impor-tant collection of pictures was sold recently, re-cently, began life as a reporter on The Independence Beige. Gen. W. T. Sherman's annual salary as general of the army, which office , - J ,tlA Will has been abolished and which title will die with him, is 15,000.. McLeod, the new president of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad, began be-gan his railroad career by carrying rods for surveyors. He is abont 42 years old. Gen. Boulanger is said to be writing a drama, with Robert Emmet, the young Irish hero, as the central figure. It is to be brought out at the Free theatre in Paris. , Gilbert, the English dramatist, begins his literary work at about midnight, and keeps on writing until the sun has risen. He is a great consumer of cigarettes. cigar-ettes. .Stanley says that his one aim now is to get away from the crowds, not because be-cause he does not wish to. see them, but because they prevent him from doing any work. Carlisle's successor in tho national house of representatives W. W. Dick-erson Dick-erson is a tall, dark faced man, who looks more like a preacher than a politician. Gen. Adam E. King, of Baltimore, who has been appointed consul general at Paris, is described as a tall, handsome hand-some man, with white hair and fine black eyes. P. T. Barnnm, the best known showman show-man in the world, was 80 years old recently. re-cently. He is worth $11,000,000, all of which he has accumulated since his fortieth for-tieth year. Marat Halstead writes in the office of The Brooklyn Standard-Union till 2 o'clock in the afternoon, then goes home to the Brevoort house, takes a bath and sleeps an hour and a half, then dines and writes half the evening. The remains of Jefferson Davis lie in the receiving vault of the Army of Northern Virginia in New Orloans. They are guarded by three sentinels a member of the G. A. R. by day and two Confederate soldiers at night. George Francis Train, since his record breaking trip around the world, has quietly settled down on the shores of Puget Sound, near Tacoma. He lives alone, and spends his time in communing commun-ing with the birds and cultivating psychic force. Bismarck's bedroom contains only three pieces of furnitnre an enormous wash handstand, a small camp bedstead and a bootjack. There used to be a couple of hair brushes. "Take them away," said the prince a few years ago; "a towel will do to part my hair nowadays." nowa-days." Gen. Caprivi is as simple in his habits as in his tastes. He dines in the middle of the day after a morning of hard work, the menu being of the plainest. After dinner he rides out for a few hours, and then, unless he has to go to Potsdam to see the emperor, he works once more for several hours. |