Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1892 — MASCULINE MENTION. [ARTICLE]

MASCULINE MENTION.

Foraker baa just sold 7.000 acres of land for ten dollars an acre. Robert Barrett Browning, the poet’s son, Is a martyr to gout. He is forty-two years old. Robert T. Barker, of New Bedford, Mass., has read the Bible through uo less than 100 times. Frank Gaienne, president of the St. Louis Merchants’ exchange, is said to be a double of Jay Gould. President Hayes was elected noble grant of an Odd Fellows loage just before he left the White House. Sir Julian Pauncefote, British minister at Washington, plays lawn tennis whenever he gets a chance. Henry Clews has a bathroom that cost 140,000. The walls, floor, bath, in fact every part of the room, is of onyx Cardinal Manning’s dwelling in London is a plain and unpretentious, though large, house, whioh looks more like a school than a private mansion.. The Hon. Harvey Rice, father of the Ohio common school system, is now ninetyone years of age, and is living quietly in Cleveland, where he still spends an hour daily with his pen. The death of Mr. Hamlin recalls the curious fact that when he was vice president the name of the second officer of the government was bodily inoluded in that of the first, thus: Abra-Ham Lin-coln. Judge RusseU, Henry Hilton’s son-in-law, is reputed to be one of the best story tellers in New York. He possesses a fund of wit and humor that has made him as noted as has his knowledge of the law. The Rev. Dr. Ralnsford, rector of St. George’s church, New York, is often spoken of as “the bear fighting parson.” He is a famous sportsman and spends a part of each years vacation in the Rooky mountains. George Holmes, of Cincinnati, is the owner of a peculiar diamond. In the morning it is a beautiful sky blue, at noon it is perfectly white, and at 0 o’clock in the evening it begins to tern black, and after sunset is like a piece of coal. Senator George, of Mississippi, is sixtyfive years of age, and he has been a member of the senate for ten years. He was a brigadier general in the Confederate army, and after the war wus chief justice of the supreme court of Mississippi. William Miller, of Granby, Mass., is sixty years of age, has not been 100 rods from hie home in eleven years, and has all his life slept in the same bed. He has a touch of hem- disease, and fears that any change will oause instant death. The distinction of having crossed the Atlantic over 500 times, and of having com,nmmled all tiie leading Cunarders, belongs to (,’aptain Vi . H. P. llains, of tbe steamer Etruria. He is commodore of the company's fleet and has followed the sea since 18118 Dr. Charles Eastman, the Sioux Indian to whom Elaine Gooilale was married, was a good deal "f an athlete while at Dartmouth. His practice disturbed the students, and eighty sufferers paid him a visit to throw him out, but he met them with a revolver aud dnwbbell. He was not thrown out. Charley Gibson, ex-congressman from Maryland, lihs a curly, gray head aud a military goat ee. Gibson is said to be one of the best authorities on the cooking of terrapin and t fie preparation of the costly oanvasback, aud can don a cap and apron and put bis culinary precepts into prompt practice.