Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-10
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

THE Car of Russia Is great fisherman
GENERAL HARRISON is five feet five inches
IN stature.
Ex-QUEEN ISABELLA, of Spain, is an &C
complished instrumentaliSt.
Miss ANNA DICKINSON will take an active
part in the Presidential campaign.
FRANK JAMES. the reformed bandit, has a
pointed chin, and long, aqulline nose.
CARDINAL MANNING is eighty years old,
but rises at five o'clock every morning.
HAMILTON DIssToN, the Philadelphia saw
maker, has his life insured for $500, 900.
ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND will go to
Europe next year to pursue her literary
studies.
SERAToR Tom PALMER, of Michigan, has
the proud satisfaction of raising his own
butter.
THE estate of the late Hiram Sibley, of
Rochester, n. Y, is estimated to be 3d.,
900, 900.
Ex-Governor BERRY of New Hampshire,
is ninety-three years old. He is almost as
active ever.
CALVIN S. BRICE, the new chairman of the
Democratic National Executive Committee,
is forty-twO years old.
THE Rev. Warren A. Gambler, who has
just been chosen president of Emory College,
Ca, is only thirty-two years old.
Mr. CARL SCHURZ has been collecting ma
terial in the Berlin archives bearing on the
history of the American Civil war.
PRESTON II. LESLIE, who was appointed
from Kentucky to be Governor of Montana,
has a Bible class in the Baptist Sunday
school at Helena
THE youthful Emperor of China rises at
three o'clock in the morning, breakfasts at
SIX, dimes at noon, SupS at three o'clock and
goes to bed by six.
FRANCES HODGsoN BURNET, the novelist,
has yellow hair, cut short, large blue eyes, a
fair complexion and plump and well-pro-
portioned figure.
EUGENE KELLY, the Irish banker of New
York, is the wealthiest Irishman engaged ex-
clusively in banking In the world. He is
rated at SIC, 100000.
SIR MORELL MACKENZIE, the English
surgeon, is building himself a country house.
and is said to have chosen for it the prettieSt
spot on the river Thames.
BEFORE he discovered the cholera microbe,
Robert Koch was known simply as DR.. Koch.
Now he is Herr Geheimer Medicinal Rath
Professor Doctor Robert Koch, of Berlin.
MISS DAISY HAMPTON, General Wade
Hamptons daughter, is a famous pedes-
trian. She recently walked from her home
to Charleston, 5. c., distance OF 145 miles,
and made on one day record of twenty-five
miles
REPRESENTATIVE RANDALL, who has just
been so i'll from the effects of eating too
much ice-cream, is 50 years of age and the
best preserved man in Congress. He is now
serving his twenty-sixth consecutive year in
the House Of Representatives.
TOsHITAKE OKUBO, young japanese stu
dent at Yale College. is the son of Premier
of Japan who practically ruled the Empire,
but was assassinated in 1878. Young Okubo
will be graduated next year, and on his re-
turn to Japan will receive a government po-
sitiOn.
COUNT MAURICE ESTERHAZY of Austria
has been put under guardianship to check his
mad extravaganza. He owns, free and clear
of membranes, more than POO, 900 acres of
land in Hungary and can travel in straight
line more than fifty miles without quitting
his estate.
A WELL-KNOWN newspaper correspondent,
in describing General Harrison to friend,
says: ''He is a small man, with a large head
and full beard and whiskerS" This accords
with the statement, that Harrison, If elected,
will be physically the smallest man who has
ever occupied the Presidential char.
ONCE at the great Derby races the Prince
of Wales cOOlly asked Colonel OchIltree. the
great American racOnteur, TO go 10 another
box and make a bet with the Marquis So
and-so In a very nonchalant way the
Colonel asked him to send the Duke or Prince
So -and-sO, calling them by name, VINO were
present, for he never did errands.
THE rumor that Prince Albert Victor, the
heir presl1mptive to the British throne, is to
marry the Princess Of Anhalt-DesSau, is re.
vived in consequence o. the Princess OF
Wales, his mother, having made a special
visit to Dessau to see the young woman 1t
would be a good marriage for the Prince, az
the girl is one of the richest heiress s in Eu
rope fairly good-looking, of genial DISPOSE
ton, and able to play the banjo.