The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-09-27
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Phil. ARMOUR owns the finest paintings In
the West
Mrs. MAcKAy and ex-Queen Isabella OF
Spain are great friends
HI. RIDER HAGGARD has been shipwrecKed
while making trip to Iceland.
! JUSTICE GRAY is six feet five inches in
height and weighs nearly three hundred
| pounIs
THE Emperor of Austria has but one pas
| sion, grouse shooting and that he lndulges
i'll sparngly.
The imported Guernsey cattle of the Hon.
Levi P. Morton took eight prizes at the Buff
falo IN. ~ fair.
LOUIS DE GEER, the eminent Swedish
statesman, is seventy years old, and has re-
| tired from public Life.
MISS HATTIE BLAINE, daughter of the
| Maine statesman, has pink cheeks fair
| complexion and nuJ-brown hair
LORD DUFFERIN, Viceroy OF India, is now
dependent upon an amannensis owing to the
| tendons of his hands having contracted.
| SENATOR BUTLER, of South Caro- ina, de-
| lights in athletic sports, and one would
hardly suspect him of having an artificial
leg.
CURTIS, the Presidential candidate of the
| American party, is the most wealthy of any
of his competitors. He is set down at S2,0JO,-
010.
| STI ARTHUR SULLIVAN, the composer, is
short and stout, with low forehead short,
curly hair, black eyes, and square, bulldog
| chin.
Ex-Governor LONG, of Massachusetts,
has amused himself by translatmg Greek
| classics as a relaxation from his more serious
occupation
SARAH BERNHARDT, the actress, is quoted
as telling a friend that sne intends tine scene
| of her own death to be something startling
and striking.
Mrs. CARRIE B. KILGoRE is the only
| woman lawyer in Philadelphia, and is re-
| gardei as one of the ablest members of the
bar in that city.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND James G. Blaine,
Speaker Carlisle, Senator ingalls,. Warner
| Miller and Sunset Cox began their careen
| as school teachers.
FORTY years ago Professor Blackie made
vow that he would visit soma new district of
Scotland every year, and he says he has
conscientiously kept it.
| MARY GARRETT. Robert CARROTS sister,
manages the Garrett interests in tue Balti-
more ant Ohio road. She was trained oy
her father and is said to he quite equal to
| her task
1T is said that Canon Siddon. one of the
| ab,est men In the Church of England, has
never been made a bishop beciuse on one
| occasion when he preached before the Queen
he addressed her Ma sesty as p ain madam"
Ex-GovERNoR KNOTT, of Kentucky, has
not read a book that has been published
| within the last fifteen years He reads the
| newspapers only when he cannot avoid it
He says that the old books are gool enough
| for him
Ok learning that at the funeral ceremony
| of Frederick III. the New Emperor had ac-
| corded to only one psrson grasp OF the hand.
| tn t person being Waldersee Bismarck is re-
ported to have exclaimed: Il shall amputats
that hanin
| GLADSToNE's private library contains
| l3,0oO volumes, and the venerable statesman
can lay his hand upoa any one book of taem
| all at minutes notics. al haven't a single
book, he says, that l am not on intimate
| terms with"
MR. SrEDMAS as the New York banker
| pre- ers to be known as E c. Stellman. and in
literature as Edmund c arence Ste imam. In
| business circles Mr.. Francis Hop <insDn Smith
| Is known as +. H. smith or Francis II. Smith,
| while in art circ e. ne has wide reputation
! es F. Hopkinson Smith, AMI so business and
| art ave their nice distinctions even when
sxsmplihed in the same psrson-