Personal

• Ex-Alderman COLVIN is back from California.
• Chief Justice FULLER has returned to Washington.
• Deputy City Clerk VAN CLEAVE has returned to Miltona Lake
• Alderman DIXON has returned from a profitable camp-meeting.
• Alderman BOWLER is back from a pleasant visit to Goose Island.
• City Clerk AMBERG is negotiating for the purchase of Die Beobackter.
• Mayor ONAHAN is troubled with enlargement of the head.
• Alderman RYAN is recovering from a severe attack of thoughtfulness.
• Congressman MASON gained twelve pounds on his European trip.
• Alexander H. REVELL, the well-known Chicago merchant, is now in Italy with his wife.
• Alderman HEPBURN can hardly forgive himself.  He recently discovered some corporations whose interests he had overlooked.
• Miss L.C. RIORDAN, who has charge of F.R. LAWLOR’s cloak department, has returned from an extended trip through Europe.
• Congressman LAWLER is troubled with absent-mindedness. He recently forgot to mention himself thirty times in a speech.  He stopped at twenty-nine.
• Under the able management of Mr. Joseph R. DUNLAP, the Chicago Times is fast regaining its old-time prestige.  There is a snap and vigor to the paper not exhibited by it for year. 

Source: Chicago Eagle,  5 October 1889, Available online at Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.