Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-22
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

THE Prince of Wales suffers from insomnia
GLADSTONE was once a squatter in Aus
tralia-
PIERRE LoRILLARD is a crack shot with a
| pistol.
| THE Ameer of Afghanistan will visit Eng
| land this summer.
| E1PREsIDENT HAYES dramatized SCOTS
! Lady of the Lake" when boy Of ten.
JUDGE KELLEY, the Father of the House, :"
| was jeweler before turned his attention to
! politics.
JOHN G. WHITTIER, the poet has inger-
ing fOndness for the shOemaking trade, which
he learned when boy.
THE Queen of Denmark is intensely deaf,
but fond of music, and has big and power
full organ that she can hear.
BARON DE HEN, one of the Chief Justices
of the Austrian Empire, has seventeen chill
dren, nine Of whom are girls.
CARDINAL HOWARD, who is hopelessly
insane took to the Church after being
Tilted by a beautiful Irish girl.
QUEEN LOUISE, of Sweden, is threatened
with a return of the cancerous trouble which
nearly took her life year ago.
RUSSELL SAGE, the New York million
aire, once lost a wallet containing $4,000,
and a clergyman found and restored it,
THE Prince of Wales, in the mere
number of miles travelled, has probably
beaten most explorers, ancient and modern.
IT is estimated that President Cleveland
and Mrs Cleveland received invitations for
visits during the summer holidays at the
average rate of one minute.
THERE appears TO be very little doubt in
New York about the Duke of Marlborough
having set bis heart upon marrying the beau
tiful widow Hammersley, who has little
dot of s., 0OJ, 900.
PRINCE VICTOR NAPOLEON, the heir to the
French Empire, is gradually being adopted
by the ex-Empress Eugene. She has ex-
pressed a desire that he should take up his
residence with her.
CLAUS SPRECKLEs, the Sugar King, is
member of the highest nobility of the Sand
which Islands. His title was given hi M by
the King in return for financial favOrS, and
is never used by Mr.. Spreckels.
Don PEDRO Of Brazil, besides being wise
and liberal monarch, an accomplished musI-
clan and experienced traveller, has been
profound student of languages, and is well
Yersed in Hebrew, Arabic and Sanscrit.
AN Notwithstanding man with a
short, brown beard, derby hat and untaSh-
ionable clothes is often seen walking briskly
up Broadway, New York. 1t is Ex-Governor
Geo. Hoadly, of Ohio, who is now making an
annual income of $50 900 in the metropolis
attorney for several railroads.
PRESIDENT SEELYE, of Amherst College,
is gifted with remarkable memory. He is
able to greet by name every living graduate
of the college whom he has ever met, and
freshmen who have not been in college a
week surprised to hear the President adj
dress them by their first name.
THE Empress Victoria the good gen
Jus of the German Emperor throughout his
illness. Every day she in the kitchen to
see her husbands food properly prepared;
day and night she attended to every one Of
the doctors orders. In moments of danger
and at operations she assisted like a skilled
nurse, resolutely helping to move the bed.
THE leading lady, by right of official ETH
Quette among the wives of the Associate JUS
tices of the Supreme Court, is Mrs. Eliza
Winters Miller, wife of Justice Samuel f.
Miller of Iowa. She is of English parentage,
her father having been Baptist clergyman,
in Bristol, England. She is the second wife
of Justice Miller, and a widow at the
time of her marriage to him.