The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-10-04
PERSONAL.

BISMARCK has mania for getting weighed
Frequently.
81 EVANGELIST MOODY will spend the winter
n California.
N THOMAS A. EDISON is studying the problem
<Df aerial navigation.
THE Kings of Cambodia and Assam will
|Risit Paris next year.
THE Ameer of Afghanistan Is said TO he
.)neditating a journey To England.
a IT is rumored that Bismarck will follow
Non Moltke's example and resign.
4 THE Prince of Wales has accepted an invi-
Etation to visit the Car Of Russia.
A ANDREW CARNEGIE came to the United
kStates in 1873, when he was 10 years old.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, Of Germany, receives
talmost daily letters threatening his life.
Count ALBIN CsAKY has been appointed
Ito succeed the late Herr Trefort in the Hun
4 garian Ministry.
COLONEL MARKHAM, an English hunter.
has good record in the tiger line. He has
killed seventy-two.
THE oldest voter in the United States this
I year is Texas man, Richard Kidd, who was
born 10 years ago
THE Russian Grand Dukes Sergus and
Paul have been received and entertained by
/ the Sultan at Stamboul.
THE tallest man in Congress is Stewart, of
/
est. Senator Ingalls, is the thnnest
CHICAGO gave Chief Justice Melville c.
4 Fuller notable banquet and reception on
the eve of his departure for Washington.
4 SENATOR SAWYER will be seventy seven
years old when his present term expires and
he says he will then retire from public life
1 JUDGE WALTER y. GRESHAM has returned
to Chicago. He says that as he is ON the
Bench, he will not take any part in the cam
paign.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY FAIR
CHILD'S grandfather was the printer anl
publisher of newspaper. His father was
lawyer
PRINCE GEORGE. of Greece has been bo-
trothed to Princess Marguerite second daugh-
ter of the Due de Chatres and wealthy
heiress.
THE Empress OF Austria is said to own
twenty pet horses and twice as many dogs,
after whose proper entertainment she per
sonally sees every day.
VIscoUNT CRANBRooK, one of the Oldest
members of the present British cabinet.
prides himself on never having, through his
long life, read a novel
FURTHER discussion upon Mr. Gladstone
reveals the fact that he was fiogged only oice
at Eton, Tor refusing To give away IA school
fellow who had got into trouble.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, the famous nurse,
Thomass hospital. London. She has never
recovered from the injury to her spine re-
ceived during the Crimea.
GENERAL RUSSELL A. ALGER, OF Michi.
gan, Is worth sl0.0J1,0J0. His money Is in
vested in pine and mineral land, a railroad
and hank. All OF his fortune has been
made within fifteen years
BELvA LOCKWOOD has been married
twice. She is also graduate OF two col
leees' She has both experience and accom-
pllshment, and yet her candidacy for the
joke.
FRANK DEMPsTER SHERMAN, the poet, has
great fondness for the higher mathematics,
particularly Tor calculus. He is at present
preparing for the press a text book on cal
cuius, while at the same time revising his
poems for publication.
=. WILSON WApDIYGHAM. OF Savin Rock,
oohn;, IS said To be the largest land holder in
the United Stats. He is believed 10 own
over 2OOO,0OO acres of graz ng land in New
meNlco aud elsewhere, and he has also made
Mrge Investments in real estate in Western
cities.