Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-10-01
NOTED PEOPLE.


The Marquis Tseng, the Chinese am
bassador, has returned to Paris.
Robert T. Lincoln, son of the late
president, is about thirty-eight years old,
of medium height and fine personal APP
pearance.
Mr.. Carlyle has so far recovered from
his recent illness as to be able to super
intend the preparation of materials for
his biography.
When President Lincoln was assasina-
ted, the late Marshall o. Roberts sent
Mrs. Lincoln letter of coincidence and
his check for $4,000.
The Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon is made quite
happy by the receipt of a legacy of
100000 for the benefit of his pastors
college, and S125,000 for his orphan
age.
Marshal Bazaine is said to be greatly
affected by the comments of the French
journals at the time of and since the
false report of his death, and is greatly
broken in health.
Rosa Bonheur has passed the summer
at her country seat at Thomery, making
studies from the lion and ioness which
she bought last winter, and has present
ed to the Jardin DIES Plantes.
The statute of Theirs at st. German
was unveiled ON Sunday. Jules Simon
delivered the address. Oliver Pain, the
radical journalist entered noisy pro-
test and was carried off by the police.
The Chief Justice of Ireland, when
asked if he believed in the Knock mir
acles, said whatever / may believe,
L am sure Tie UlIsElI Of tllv G4,an+
Midland line has the warmest faith in
them"
Wilhe1mina Helena Paulina Maria is
the name of the daughter of the king
and queen of the Netherlands. She is
to be called Princess Wilhelmina, and
have no pretensions to the throne Of
Holland on account of her sex.
Prince Napoleon, or Napoleon V, ac-
companied by his two sons, is visiting
the Princess Clotilde, his wife, at Mon
calieri, near Turin. Of late years the
couple has been estranged, but recon-
citation has now been effected, and the
meeting of the entire family at the
Turin station the other day was very
cordial.
The new commander of the Russian
guards, the Grand Duke Vladimir, is
the second living son of the car. He
was born in 1847, and married in 1874
the Duchess Marie, daughter of the
grand duke of Neutrality-suspicious..
He is not a particularly clever prince,
but he is very amiable and has none Of
the vices which rendered his uncle so
odious.
Mr. Fawcett, the British postmaster
general, has new plan for facilitating
the small savings of the poor. A saving
child may now get an official bit OF
paper intended to hold twelve stamps,
add stamp at time to it as can save q
penny, and when it is full take it to the
post-ofice and get a savings-bank receipt
for a shilling, the minimum deposit
which it will pay the post-office savings
bank to take.
Even the philosophers sometimes have
the laugh turned on them. Not long
since, in the presence of Herbert Spencer,
q little boy said, "What an awful lot Of
crows" The philosopher corrected the
youth by saying, 81 have yet to learn,
little master, that there is anything to
inspire awe, in such bird as the crow. u
For once the author of the first princi.
Piles had met his match. The boy re-
piled ''But didn't say there was. !
didn't say, What lot of awful crows 7
but, What an awful lot of crows
Sound for the hoy
Abeddin Pasha, minister of foreign
affairs, presented himself the other day
before the sultan in such very seedy
coat that his majesty could not refrain
from suggesting to him that it was only
decent he should put on his best clothes
when he was going to see his sovereign
Abeddin replied humbly that he had put
on his very best. Whereupon the sui
tan directed one of his secretaries tc
give an order on the imperial tailor tc
rig the pasha out completely. Abeddir
accordingly ordered thirty-fve coats
thirty-fve waistcoats, and the same mum
Der of every other garment. Since ther
the mean attire of functionaries who
have been called to the palace has beer
quite striking, but none of these imi
fo+ors bova 90 vat eynitad the snltan's