The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-07-26
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

0LADsTeaE has been In Parliament fifty.
Tx years.
HENRY GEORGE contemplate visiting
Australia.
GENERAL FREMONT is spending the sum.
ner at Long Branch.
The fayorlte flower of the new Emperor Of
Germany Is the violet.
The brother of the King Of Naples mar.
riod his sisters daughter.
SENATOR CooKRELL says he never gets a
chance to read for amusement.
Rev. T. p. Roe made enough out Of his
books to pay his losses as farmer.
CARDINAL MANNING Is now eighty-two
years Of age, but Is strong and active.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE will write the
campaign biography Of General Harrison.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has four sons. Tho
Hohenzollern dynasty has lasted 9iS years
WHEN presented at the English court MIRA
Vanderbilt wore $l75, 900 worth OF diamonds.
CARLorrA, ex-Empress of Russia, II rap
Idly weakening, and is expected to die at any
moment.
| Ex-Goy ERNoR WILLIAM SPRAGUE, Of
Rhode Island, is Chief Of Police at Nara
gansett Pier
The Queen of Belgium has contributed
much to the progress made In music in her
country Of late years.
IT is stated that Mr.. Thurman will take the
stump in Ohio and Indiana, and afterward
In the Eastern States.
BRET HARrE, the poet Of the Sierras, q
said to be in such social demand In England
that he rarely dimes alone.
THE son Of the Queen Of Servia is guarded
In Wiesbaden wherever he goes by four pow
erful Servian male attendants
j. G. TURNBuLL is the Jay Gould of Aus.
tralia His fortune is estimated at $50 00O,-
OOO. He ia now visiting in Philadelphia.
THE full name of the Princess Regent OF
| Brazil is Isabella Christine Ieopoldine Au.
gustine Michelli- Gabrielle Raphelle Com
hague, Princess Imperial of Brazil and Count
ess d Eu.
DUMAS, the French author frequently has
. house-cleaning mania. He is very orderly,
and is often seen, feather buster in hand,
busting his study and changing pieces OF
furniture.
JOSEF HoFMANN, the prodigy pianist, is
under treatment at Eisenach by celebrated
specialist In nervous diseases and his nerv-
BUSINESS has been greatly subdued. He prac-
tees an hour each day.
WHEN the late Commodore Kittson was a
membo. of the Minnesota Legislature in 1851,
he represented the Pembina District, and in
| order to attend the sessions OF the body he
was obliged to travel 500 miles on suowshoes
or by dog-sled.
THE Duke of Westminster is returned In
"Bateman's Landowners of Great Britain
IS Queen Victoria's richest subject; and the
young Viscount Belgrave, if he lives to in.
herit his patrimony, will, it is said, be the
richest man in the world.
ADMIRAL DAVID D. PORTER, the chief Off
Ger of the United States Navy, is seventy
four years of age Sixty-four years of hi,
life have been spent on the water, beginning
with the time when, boy of nine he sailed
with his father in the expedition against
the West Indian pirates.
BISHOP FOWLER, of the Methodist Church,
began his career as lawyer, but, becoming
converted, hastened to get out of the pro-
tession and studied for the ministry. Hi
smilingly says. however, that his early train
Ing in the law has stood him in good stead,
Is bishop must be man with a judicial as
we'll as theological turn of mind.
For twelve years past, Mr.. Randall, Of
Penn, has occupied the same desk in the
House of Representatives. 1t is No. 40 on
the right hand of the Speaker. When the
drawing for seats takes place at the begin
hing of each Congressional term, Mr.. Ran
dali is given his old desk by unanimous con
.ent before the drawing begins.