Men You Hear Of

Coagreesmaa Eilgore wm once, a jnstice of the peace in Texas. Ex-Govemor Fosti-r, of Ohio, is a licli man. and as generóos as rich. Gladstone says that an Irish eviction a equivalent to a deatb sentence. Frank Tahnage, bou oí Dr. T, DeWitt Talmate is Btudying ÍOT the ministry. Ex-President Cleveland has .-i a illection of fishing roda froni the famons maken of th; world. Connt Von Moltke bai refused the dukedom which the emperOT not only offered Imt prooBCld npon him. Baron Rothschild is au ardept ]liilatelist, and devotesmuchtinic and ninney to collecting and arrSDging stamj.s. One of the slmrtest namec in the country is tio&sessed by Mr. Y, who is tlic scoretary af the ('orean lep;ntion at Washington. Bob Allis-on, of Pairplay, the Gretna Gni'ii ,f Witconsiii, makes the boast that he has marrled over 800 runaway couples. The nearest living relfltire of th xiet Bhakeepeore is probably Thomas Hart, a resident of Australia, who is eighth in descent froin Bhakespeare'a sister .loan. John Bnrii", the Londou labor leader, does not think well of Gen. Booth'g plan of ridding the metropolis of lts wretchedness and niffering by a fiigantic charity. Lord Wclsclry was at onetimeatre mendons suioker. For inany years he nsed to smoke Bteadily trom (i in the mormng till bedtáme, smoking nothing Imt big bVack i-igars. Maj. Hiram Baasett, f Millersburg, Ky., an eminent Masón, has been stricken with paralysis. In "The History of Masonry" Maj. Bassett is oalted the highest Maaos in the world. Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson denies the statement that he began life as.a bootblack. "I have always been too lazy to black my cwn boots," lip says, "to say nothing of other people's."