Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-03-02
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

THE Prince of Wales is again undergoing
treatm ent to reduce his obesity.
THE Chinese Minister is said to buy more
bouquets than anyone else in Washington.
THE mother of Garfield reposes by the side
of her son in Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland
CHAUNCEY DEPEw and Mayor Hewitt are
the most-sought-af diners-out in Gotham
Mr. PARNELL now takes daily horseback
exercise in London wrapped in huge
ulster.
FRANCIS MURPHY, the temperance orator,
has decided to enter the ministry OF the NJ
E. Church.
MRS GARRETT ANDERSON, the leading
woman physician of England, makes an IN
come of $50, coo year.
Mr. BLAINE is said to be taking notes on
his travels in Europe, from which he Will
write book on his return.
DE GRIMM, the New York cartoonist, who
claims to be a Russian Baron, is said to be
son of one of the Cars tailors
DIR. G.. c. E. WEBER, of Cleveland, Ohio,
was a fellow student with the Crown Prince
of Germany at Bonn, on the Rhine
Won MOLTKE is likely to live to be of great
spe He leads thoroughly dOmeStlc HE,
sees little company, talks rarely and plays
whist.
THE MARQUIS of Lansdowne will go to In.
dia in June The salary of the Nlceroy OF
India is Sl25,000 a year, with allowances OF
S65, 600 more.
Frenchman who would drive France into
war with Germany so long as Bismarck and
Won Moltke live ought to be shot
CAPT SMITH Cook, candidate for door
keeper of the Kentucky House of Represent
tatiyes is seven feet eight inches tall he Is
the tallest native born American nVlng
GENERAL MOSES CLEVELAND. founder OF
Cleveland Ohio, is to have S5,OOO granlte
monument there, to be dedicated July y;
under the charge of the Early Settlers
Association
IT is estimated that in order to be able to
wear all his decorations and orders at one
time Prince Bismarck would require breast
thirty feet in breadth. Their weight amounts
to a little over forty pounds
'sBoBn INGERSOLL is an inveterate smoker,
and q wear ago he had to limit himself, 1or
his throat began to trouble him and ms
| Dhysicians said that he was in fair way 10 Ioi-
| low General Grant with cancerous CROWN
! unless he called halt.
SIR MoRELL MACKENZIE, the German
| Crown Princes physician, is said to nave
! rafnsed $50. 900 to come over to the United
! States and examine royal American unroaI.
| Thirty thousand dollars is more than many
| an NJ D. makes in lifetime.
president CLEVELAND has adopted the
! habit of slipping away from his desk Tor hali
an hour at about dusk for sharp walk OF
! two miles through the unfrequented Portlon.ol
! Washington's West End. He Is said TO nave
already reduced his weight about twenty
! pounds.
SENATOR HoAR, of Massachusetts,. is dec
Grated with more college titles than any
other member of either house OF Song[1eSs
| STba deere, of Ii. D. has been conferred on
him by five different colleges-name,T, w III
lam and Mary, Harvard, Amherst, Williams
and Yale.
MRS. L1vERMoRE was recently sno"eq VI
| in New Hampshire, and the heroic eHOr
made N bv party of gentlemen in digging hel
out and taking her to train led her to say
and to say it boldly, that .,American me- meI
are the best in the world ana l.; sh Sac cnT
inc forever and forever.