The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-09-06
PROMINENT PEOPLE


JUSTICE LAMAR Is q famous horsernan.
Mas. CLEVELAND is an expert lawn tennis
player.
Europe.
REPRESENTATIVES, GRAIN is the only native
Texan In Congress
LORD TESxysoN has passed his eightieth
year with q light heart.
MILAN, of Servia is said to be financially
the poorest King living.
THE Duke of Argyle has declared himself
10 be in favor OF cremation.
Mrs. SHERIDAN, widow OF the General, has
Cherokee blood in her veins.
WENDELL PHILLIPS body lies In an un.
marked grave at Milton, Mass.
A Son of President Tyler has been chosen
President of William and Mary College at
Williamsburg, Va.
Mus. HoPRIys-S -SEARI.E has bought $3.50. 900
worth of paintings in Paris for her mansion
at Great harrington, Mass.
AMELIE RIvEs CHASLrR, the Virginia an.
thoress, receives about thirty letters day
from admirers OF her works.
JOHN HoEy. President of tho Adams Ex-
press Company, has sailed for Europe, where
he will organize an express system
Mn. WHiTEBREAD, n member OF the Eng
lish Parliament. is said 10 make over 81 ,00J,.
00U per year from his beer brewery.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL is an enthusi.
astic student OF Chiffon, and can repeat by
heart long passages Of the "Decline and Fall
of Rome.n
THE Queen Of Spain has set her heart upon
making st. Sebastian. on the Spanish coast,
an Autumn resort of the fashionable worlds
Of all nations.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JosrpH, of Austria.
taly ha.r 40 ttn,.l,.nu IN I'll pt
champagne at dinner and smokes the com.
monest kind OF cigars.
PRINCESS BEATHiCE, daughter Of Queen
Nictorn. has sent some OF her own musical
compositions td the exhibition Of woman's in.
du,tries In Sydney, Australia.
EMPEROR WILLIAM II. OF Germany has a
passion for having his photographs TAX, n,
Since his accession To the throne hr has 100 l.
cd Germany with his pictures.
THE Earl of RoSslyn is a candidnte for
laureate laure.s Queen Victoria has ap.
proved of his two sonnets on the death OF
Emperor Frederick and commander him
to publish them.
MRs. CARLISLE. who is keeping house at
Washington for the first time. en- Joys having
guests ut dinner, aud the Speaker has IN
stru. tons TO bring home friends with him IN
the afternoon when the house IS not full OF
visitors.
tE NuNlfT W iIlllllN NOiltHfs NiNlOTut
England, who marriei Miss Ramsay. tho
distinguished Senior Cassie. presented his
bride for welding gilt with the works OF
Plato SOphocles, and Dante, spleudidly
bound in morocco.
THE smallest member of the Supreme
Court Of the United States is the new chief
Justice, who is but five feet six inches tall,
and weighs only l2i pounds Associate jus
tice Gray is the largest measuring six icct
five inches in height and tipping the beam at
nearly 800 pounds.
GENERAL CURTIs the American Party's
candidate for President * bright and cheery
and evidently sincere He IS Interested in
various steel companies in New \ ork City
nnd New Jersey, is siNtv.sN year, old, Is
rcputei to I've worth S!,OOO,OO1 aud lives at
Bridgeport, Conn.
THERE are several left handed writer's nt
the Capitol. Rcpr, sentative Hopkins, of Hi.
nois, writes with the left hand exclusively,
never having learned or tried to use the pen
with the right. Mr. McComas, of Mary
land, writes with either hand ut pleasure,
but not with both at once.
RUSSELL SAGE IL at least fifteen years
older than Jay Gould, but he has not "a
wrinkle IN his face, and is as well preserved
as man of fifty. lie attributes his contn-
ued good health, after twenty-five years in
Wall street, 10 the fact that he never permits
himself to worry about business outside of
bus ness hours.
Ar his White House Monday receptions.
President Cleveland has introduced n nov.
city in his attire. Heretofore he has worn "a
black frOck coat on such occasions. Recently
he was nttirel in "A pepper.and-snlt business
suit The costume was in the latest style.
A low.cut vest rnd wide trousers proved
this.