Mere Men

Secretary of the Treasury Shaw is to occupy the former home in Washington of Commissioner of Pensions Evans.

Harry P. Kreis of Baltimore has one of the finest collections of theatrical and musical celebrities' autographs in this country.

Colonel William F. Cody has given to Captain Charles Christy, an old comrade in the early scouting days, a ranch of 160 acres on the Shoshone river, near the national park, in Wyoming.

Russell B. Harrison, son of the late President Harrison, intends to give the government the burial plot of William Henry Harrison at North Bend, O., where a statue to the old Indian fighter will be erected.

David McLean Parry of Indianapolis, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, was born on a farm near Pittsburg. He rises at 5:30 a. m. and is at his office desk a quarter of 7 every morning.

Leon, the fashionable hatter of Paris, is dead. When he took the measurement of the head of a famous man, he always took it in duplicate, thus obtaining a collection of head shapes of celebrities of great interest to phrenologists.

Robert T. Baptist, ex-slave from Virginia, who has given $1,000 to Booker Washington for the endowment of a Tuskegee scholarship, is an old man, but still active. He is employed as a coachman by General Carpenter of New York at his summer home, near Galway, Saratoga county, N. Y.

Mr. James Glaisher, the meteorologist, is ninety-three years of age. Forty years ago he made one of the most remarkable balloon ascensions on record. He was able to record a height of 28,000 feet before he became unconscious, and the balloon probably reached 35,000 feet before his companion, Mr. Coxwell, managed to pull open the valve.