Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-20
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

MR. GLADSTONE pays the yiolin-with no
great success, however
EVERY few DAYS the Queen Regent OF Spain
sits for new Photograph
REV F. p Roe and Mark Twain each
maze over $4,000 year bY their pens
REy. Mr. STURGEON the London divine,
sometimes wears a single barreled eye glass
BOB" GARRETT. ex-President OF the Balti-
more ana ONO Railroad, Is hunting tigers IN
India
THE daughter OF Prince Nicholas. of Monte
negro. Is TO be betroi he'd - the Czarewitch
of Russia
DR.. JOHN HALL u worth a million and
breaches TO New y DIRK congregation worth
$40, 900. 900
The Prince of Waless income from the
Duchy Of Cornwall was nearly 500, 900 for
the last year
RoBERT LEWIS STEVENSON. the author OF
Dr- Jekyil and Mr. Hyde, was paid 5000
for his latest novel
WILLIAM / SCoTT. Of Erie. Penn, pays
MS COOK twice the salary which he himself re-
ceiveS a Congressman
WHILE w. w. Corcoran. the philanthro-
pist was OH his death bed he drew check for
SoOo Tor the widow of a young man who had
committed suicide.
DR.. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, has pre-
sented his large and valuable collection OF
medical and surgical books 10 the Medical
Library OF Boston
j. f. FITZGERALD. of Montana the Presi-
dent of the Irish National League in Amer
lea, was fifteen years ago earning % cents n
day. Now he IS worth So OO, 600
UNITED STATES SENATOR REAGAN has
held public Office for fifty years. his first APP
Polntment being 10 the position OF surveyor
of public lands in Texas along toward the
end of the thrties-
HENRY BERGH, the late New York human
MARIAN, was lawyer and drew his own will
Each OF the two codicils were witnessed 10y a
single witness, and was therefore invalid, "a
the law requires two witnesses.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON. the woman
suffraglst, Is still noticeably fine looking
woman with great masses of white hair and a
strong, intelligent face. She avows herself
as enthusiastically enlisted in the woman
suffrage campaign as ever.
JOAQUIN MILLER is living at present in n
little redwood house, about twelve feet high
by something like thirty feet in length,
perched away up the side of a naked and
rocky mountain near Oakland, Cal, at
height of several hundred feet above the
sea.
UNITED STATES SENATOR PALMER has n
lake on his Michigan farm stocked with carp,
and wishes he hadn't. He calls them the
hog OF the sea- because they wallow and
burrow in the mud and keep the water con-
tinually dirty. He has tried to seine them
out, but he cannot do So
IT is said that the first work Governor
David B. Hill ever did outside Of his school
ing was TO sell apples on the trains that
passed through Havana, n Y, his birth
place. From the money thus acquired he
bought all his schoOlboOks and what was left
be saved and gave to his mother.
GUzMAN BLANCO, who at the present time
is the prominent figure in Venezuela is de-
Scrlbed as a handsome man Of venerable ap-
pearauce, who possesses great ability, I'm
bounded ambition. and iIordinaJe cOnceit.
He Is enormously wealthy and gave 500 900
to his daughter on her marriage to French
nobeman.
GORDON TAYLOR HUGHES aged seventeen,
son of the American Consul at Birmingham
England, has won a scholarship at Cam
bridge valued at $1,000 Young Hughes won
over ffty-two competitors. although he was
so sick during the four DAYS examination
that he was obliged 70 dictate his answers 10
a stenographer