The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-07-26
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GLADSTONE has been in Parliament fifty
hx years.
HENRY GEORGE contemplates visiting
Australia.
GENERAL FREMONT is spending the sum-
mer at Long Branch.
THE favorite flower Of the new Emperor OF
Germany is the violet
The brother of the King of Naples mar.
ried his sisters daughter.
SENATOR CocKRELL says he never gets
chance to read for amusement.
Rev. f. p Don made -.-~sL --S ~ HE
booKs to pay his losses as farmer.
CARDINAL MANNING is now eighty-two
pears Of age, but is strong and active.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE will write the
campaign biography Of General Harrison.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has four sons. The
Hohenzollern dynasty has lasted 94S years
WHEN presented at the English court Mrs.
Vanderbilt wore Sl75, 600 worth of diamonds.
CARLoTTA, ex-Empress Of Russia, Il rap.
idly weakening, and is expected to die at any
moment.
Ex-Gov ERNoR WILLIAM SPRAGUE, OF
Rhode Island, is Chief Of Police at Nara.
gansett Pier.
The Queen of Belgium has contributed
much to the progress made in music in her
country of late years.
IT is stated that Mr.. Thurman will take the
stump in Ohio and Indiana. and afterward
In the Eastern States.
BRET HARTE, the poet Of the Sierras, i
said to be in such social demand in England
that he rarely dimes alone.
The son of the Queen of Servia is guarded
In Wiesbaden wherever he goes by four pow
erful Servian male attendants
J. G.. TURNBULL is the Jay Gould of Aus
tralia- His fortune is estimated at $50, O0O,-
300. Heis now visiting in Philadelphia
THE full name of the Princess Regent OF
Brazil is Isabella Christine-L eopoldine Au
| gustine Michelli- Gabrielle Raphelle Con
zague. Princess Imperial of Brazil and Count
( ess d'Eu
| DUMAS, the French author, frequently has
. house-cleaning mania. He is very orderly
| and is often seen, feather duster in hand
busting his study and changing pieces oil
furniture.
| JOSEF HoFMANN, the prodigy pianist, ia
under treatment at Eisenach by celebrated
specialist in nervous diseases, and his perv'
business has been greatly subdued He prac
tices an hour each day.
| WHEN the late Commodore Kittson was q
| member Of the Minnesota Legislature, in 1851
| he represented the Pembina District, and In
| order to attend the sessions Of the body HI
was obliged to travel 500 miles on snowshoe,
or by dog-sled
THE Duke of Westminster is returned II
| "Bateman's Landowners Of Great Britain
IS Queen Victoria's richest subject; and the
! young Viscount Belgrave, if he lives to in
herit his patrimony, will, it is said, be tn,
richest man in the world.
| ADMIRAL DAVID d. PORTER, the chief Off
Ger of the United States Navy, is seventy.
four years OF age. Sixty -four years of hi,
life have been spent on the water, beginning
with the time when, boy Of nine, he sailed
with his father in the expedition agtins'
the West Indian pirates.
BISHOP FOWLER, of the Methodist Church
oegan his career as a lawyer, but becoming
| converted, hastened to get out Of the pro
fession and studied for the ministry. HI
smilingly says, however, that his early train
| ing in the law has stood him in good stead
as bishop must be q man with judicial a
we'll as theological turn Of mind.
For twelve years past, Mr.. Randall, O
Penn, has occupied the same desk in th,
| House of Representatives. It Is No. 40 OF
the right hand of the Speaker. When tn
drawing for seats takes place at the begin
ming of each Congressional term, Mr.. Ran
dali is given his old desk by unanimous con
Sent before the drawing begins