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Show , MEN YOU HEAR OF. Col. Richard Dale, of Philadelphia, is the possessor of the sword presented to John Paul Jones by Louis XVI, and many of Join t,' letters and other relics. rrofewor Koch lias no sense of fear, uti.l u liT, in Tinli.i iiiir..oti..il 41, a cholera ho bent over the corpses in tht dissecting room without n thought of contagion. Baron Hirsch offered $10,000,000 for the public schoolti of Russia on condition that no distinction shall be mado iu the application of tho fund as to race or religion. re-ligion. The offer was declined. Benjamin Hutterworth is tall, solidly Imilt and powerful, and his large head is covered with closely clipped, snow white hair. Ho is frank and direct in manner and likes a joke. His father was a Quaker. Lord Tennyson lirw n brother, Frederick, Freder-ick, who is older than the poet. Ho himself him-self once essayed verso making, and pnli-lished pnli-lished in 154 a book of poems, but with this effort he retired from the field of literature. Ye Cha Yuri, tho Corean charge d'affaires d'af-faires ut Washington, never saw his two months old son, who died recently, as tbe Corean custom prevents a, father from seeing a child until three months after its birth. Tho wealthy railroad and telegraph manipulator, Inman, is a Kouthertisr, who caiiio to New York when tho war reached its end. Ilia income for a day now amounts to nearly as much as it did for a year then. Mr. Spurgeon gives but little timo to the preparation of his sermons. He sits in his study a couple of hours with his face buried in his bands; then goes to his desk, jots down n few headlines, nnd then ho is ready fur tho pulpit. Benjamin Constant is a blonde. His eyes are blue, liis noso pronounced ami tho lower part of his face is hidden by a drooping mustache and a pointed Van Dyko beard. Ho has more tho air of a business man than of an artist. It has been said of Senator Evarts that he is the only lawyer living who can eat a big public dinner, washed down with two or three bottles of wine, nnd rheo pore over law books till daybreak without with-out showing signs of weariness. |