The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-01-26
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

PAUL DU CHAILLU, the great explorer, has
gone to livei London.
MILLIONAIRE HUNTINGTON used to peddle
butter to the California miners
JAMES &. BLAINE has arrived at Venice
He Will remain there for some time
BENJAMIN F. BUFFERS personal tax in
Lowell, Mass, was s3O61 81 last year.
THE Duke of Edinburgh has an unenviable
reputation for parsimony throughout Europe.
SENATOR KENNA, of West Virginia, is re-
joicing over the birth of his sixth child-a
boy.
THE Due dOrleans, son Of the Comte de
Paris, is going to India to serve in the British
army.
MISS PHOEBE COUSINS is the independent
Prohibition candidate for Governor of Mis-
souri,
Mrs. GENERAL GRANT has Como to WASH
lngton to pay visit to Senator and Mrs.
Leland Stanford.
Mr.. TALMAGE, it is said, dictates his SER
mons to a shorthand Secretary at the rate Of
$50 words a minute.
CONGRESSMAN FISHER, of Michigan, con-
tributed 200 sacks of flour to the poor of
West Bay City, Mich.
SENoRITA AMANDA D. DIAz, daughter Of
President Diaz, of Mexico, was married re-
Gently to Senior De La Tore.
LEO XIII always dimes alone No one
ever receives higher honor than to be in
vited to partake a cup of coffee.
QUEEN VICTORIA, like Frederick the Great,
of Prussia, cannot abide little soldiers. She
admires big six or seven footers.
The late Senator MacMaster, by his last
will and testament bequeathed $500, 900
toward tie endowment of Baptist uni
versity.
GENERAL ALFRED TERRY, who is suffering
from rheumatic govt and who was ordered
to Florida by his physicians, has arrived at
ST. Augustine.
ISAAC PITMAN has been presented with a
| valuable medal in commemoration of the
| tiftieth anniversary of his invention of the
art of photography.
THE Emir of Afghanistan has fallen in
love with bagpipes, and has ordered 900 of
them for Cabul. The Shah of Persia has also
ordered a brass band
KING HUMBERr is a keen sportsman and
largely patronizes the genuine English fox
| hunting that has been introduced into Italy
| by Prince John Borghese.
ALBERT KEEP, the President of the Chi
| cago and Northwestern Railroad, comes of a
family of seven brothers, each of whom has
| made himself millionaire by his own exer-
| TONS
| JAY GOULD paid $500, 900 for his country
home on the Hudson, and it is said to cost
him $500 day, or nearly S150,00O year 1t
embraces almost square mile of land ninety.
| five acres of which is lawn.
A FRIEND of Mr.. Blaine says he intends to
make copious notes Of his coming trip through
Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Asia, and thut he
will be prepared to write book about these
countries when he returns
n. X. FAIRBANK, tho wealthy Chicago
lard man, frequently makes the boast that he
can lay brick as well rs a first class work
| ing mason can. He was mason's appren
tice when boy and learned his trade we'll.
THE Chicago Tribune says that Mrs
| Paran Stevens, who owns the Victoria
Hotoi in New York, was in her girlhood @
waiter girl in Lowell restaurant, while hel
husband began life as a stable boy. She i
no v worth s600o,0OO and her hotel is head
quarters for the English aristocracy in thu
| country"
Mrs Mary Clement Leav,tt, organizer TO
the worlds w. c. T. u, is now in Ponca
India, where she was well received. From
thence she goes to Bombay and afterward II
Calcutta. visiting the towns en- route.