The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-11-08
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
MooDY, the evangelist, is fifty one.

Moody, the evangelist, is fifty one.
GENERAL HARRISON wears No. TX hat.
GENERAL SHERMAN is a famous diner, out.
speech in Magyar.
THE new japanese Minister at Washington
is a man of uncommon culture.
WALKING is the favorite and almost the
only recreation OF Cardinal Gibbons.
Mas. JAMES X. POLK, widow of the Presi-
dent, is now in her eighty seventh year.
SULTAN MULEY HASsAN of Morocco, is "a
handsome man with calm, imposing man
ner.
Kenmore CooPER's only daughter still
lives at the novelist's home at Cooperstown,
N. Y.
SAMUEL NoRMENT, the millionaire Wash.
ington bank President, was once Govern
ment clerk.
MRS. BURNETTs works sell better than any
other of the women writers-Charles Egbert
Craddock next.
The Crown Prince of Greece dis'ikes pub
licity, and often travels in the third-c class
railway coaches.
The King of the Belgans hates tobacco,
never wears gloves, and goes bareheaded as
much as possible.
ALDERMAN WHITAKER, who will be in
stalled Mayor of London next month, is
fan maker by trade.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, has in
timated his intention to visit London before
the close of the year.
MILLIONAIRE FLOOD was once worth S40,-
100000, it is said, but his present fortune is
estimated at Sl5,O0o,0O0.
LADY DUDLEY, the famous English beauty,
has insured her life for 500, 900 for tue bene
IF of har y0tA>eyar cla4iren.
HOARD, the Republican candidate for
Governor of Wisconsin, was peddler OF
fruit trees at one time in his career.
LORD HERsCHELL and Sir Z Natkin, with
quite an army of young sportmen, are about
to leave England to winter in India.
Henry WILLARD says he attributes his
success as railroad man to his knowledge
of human nature, gained by newspaper
work.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX composed her
beautiful little poem: THE Land of Nod
while rocking her baby brother to sleep in
the cradle.
ANTHONY j. DRExEL, OF Philadelphia who
is considered the richest banker in the United
States, is man of extraordinary modesty,
aud is rarely seen in public places.
The largest salary received by an Amer
lean bishop is that of the Bishop of New
York, which amounts to 1000 a year The
Bishop of Maine, who receives $500 year,
has the smallest.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has written Cap
tain Arson of the Chicago Club letter,
indorsing baseball as the national sport of
America, and the letter will be used in ad
vertising the game in Australia.
The richest widow in this country, if not
in the world is Mrs. Moses Taylor, whose
fortune is estimated at S40000,000 She
lives in New York, Long Branch and several
other places, as the mood suits her.
MISS FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE is now a
confirmed invalid, and is a patient at st.
Thomass Hospital, London. Her services
during the Crimean war injured her spine,
and she has never recovered from the effects
thereof. This illustrous philanthropist is
nearly sixty-nine years Old
GOLD HUTCH,n the great Chicago wheat
speculator, is said to care nothing for his at
tire, and to-day he wears the style of cloth
ing that was in vogue thirty years ago. The
cloth is of dingy hue, of dull brown or
faded black, and around the neck he wears
an old-style high collar with loose necker-
chief.