Sires And Sons

SIRES AND SONS.

Secretary Cortelyou is one of the few remaining men in public life who affect the pompadour style of brushing the hair.

Colonel William F. Vilas has presented to the Grand Army Memorial museum at Madison. Wis., an oil painting of himself by request.

John D. Strassburg has been a post-office employee in Louisville sixty years. He is eighty-five years old and says he will work as long as he can walk.

When President Roosevelt visits the Rocky mountains, he has expressed the desire to climb Mount Shasta, the giant of the Siskiyous, which towers 14,410 feet above sea level.

Mail Carrier Howland, who recently got the contract to transfer Uncle Sam's postal bags at St. Louis, Mich., is the father of nine sons who aggregate only forty-two feet in height.

August Noel, an aged negro who died the other day near New Orleans, had worked for the three generations of the McCall family of Louisiana as a slave and later as an employee for 104 years.

Henry Rose, the wealthy Cuban planter, who, it is said, gave the greater part of his fortune in aid of the Cuban revolutionists, is confined in the Bloomingdale Asylum For the Insane, in New York.

D. Milburn. son of the well known Buffalo lawyer in whose house President McKinley died, is a member of the Oxford boat crew this year. His almost equally athletic brother has missed the "eight."

George W. Dunn of San Diego county, Cal., is still at ninety an indefatigable roamer over the Pacific slopes in search of rare bugs, bulbs and seeds. He has been at his active pursuit for more than half a century.

The Swedish explorer Sven Hedin is only thirty-eight years old. It was expected that after his arduous and dangerous trip to central Asia he would rest a few years, but he is already busy with new Asiatic plans. He has also spoken of an attempt to reach the north pole "in an entirely new and comparatively easy way."