Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-17
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

| SENATOR DAWES, Of Massachusetts,. wa
school teacher and country editor
! SENATOR LELAND STANFORD. of Califor-
mia, was country lawyer in Wisconsin.
QUEEN-REGEST of Spain has asked Presi-
/ dent Clevelands wife for her Photograph
| TIE wealth of Austin Corbin. president Of
the Reading Railroad Company, Is estimated
at SI2, Go,0J0
GEORGE P BATHRoP Is to read poem at
! the Gettysburg reunion OF the Army OF the
/ Potomac next July.
QUEEN VICTORIA win probably stay in
Paris night on her way TO Italy, in order TO
( receive President Carnot.
Z. c. ALLES, the millionaire publisher Of
! Augusta, Ne, used 70 sell raSpberTies from a
/ tin pail IN the stree $ of that city
EMPEROR WILLIAM Is said to- have lost the
/ faculty Of counting, 50 that figures dates or
the cost of anything no longer convey any
meaning to him
EX-CoNGKEssMAN JOHN CESSNA of Penn
sylvarIia never made n memorandum never
carried a watch. never broke engagement.
and never missed a train.
ARCHDEACoN FARRAR, of EnglaEsd OPP
poses the verbatim reports of sermons, and has
recently declined to allow his TO be printed
under such circumstances.
THE Shah of Persia has abandoned the trip
mapped out for his tour through Europe shis
year. He viii make the visit next year,
though, for he wants TO see the Paris Expos-
ton.
PRINCESS BEATRICE recently appeared in
some tableaux at court entertainment ar
ranged by her mother, Queen Victoria. She
posed as Carmen and smoked a cigarette
while the curtain was up
SENATOR HAwLEY, of Connecticut, is the
inventor of a pocket compass and leather
rubber washer used at the end of gun
cartridges. The inventions are said to pay
him a very handsome royalty.
PRINCE OSCAR of Sweden, who is about /
to marry maid OF honor. was to have wed
one OF the Prince of WalesS daughters. but /
the Swedish Parliament refused to vote the /
necessary money, and the match was broken /
off.
A FEW days ago Benjamin F. Butler APP
peared upon the floor of the lower House OF /
Congress Very few of the members seemed (
to recognize him. He has grown extremely /
aged III appearance, and hobbies about on a /
stout cane.
DAVID HENNING, % the Michigan apple
king" began his career as a jOurneyman /
cooper. He is the most distinguished man in /
his line i'll the world and frequently buys
and distributes many rs, 900 barrels of /
apples in a season.
CHANG YEN HOON, the head of the Chinese |
Legation at Washington, is a poet, and it is
said that he cOmpOses poem every week.
Only his intimate friends see his verses, and !
they are said to be very good. He has a
library of &c, 900 volumes.
AT Mrs Senator Stanford's last Washing |
ton reception, standing by her side was a |
short, stout, plain looking woman dressed in
black with a simple bunch of violets at her
belt. She was Mrs. U. S. Grant, for eight |
years mistress of the White House
BESIDES being the most distinguished bull
fighter of the age MazZantini the Spaniard !
is cultivated man of great generosity and |
kindness OF heart. He speaks Italian and
French perfectly, is a successful actor, plays
well on the piano and writes verses
THE Mikado of Japan is described as a |
dark-featured, black-haired, thick-lipped |
man, dressed in the uniform of a European
general, and with nothing remarkable in his
makeup appearance, although he is the
absolute monarch of 36,00O,OO0 people.
FRANCIS MURPHY, the temperance orator,
intends to enter the ministry ii the confer
ence of the Methodist Church will accept
him. He already has a license as a local
preacher, which was granted him by the
Erie PA Conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church before he went to Europe.
THE Dominion fishery cruiser Dream has
heen frozen in in st. Andrews Bay, and