Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-09-14
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

! PROMINENT PEOPLE.
/ JUSTICE LAMAR is a famous horseman.
/ MRS CLEVELAND is an expert lawn tennis
player.
THE Shah of Persia is making a tour Of
Europe.
REPRESENTATIVE GRAIN is the only native
! Texan in Congress
LORD TENNYsoN has passed his eightieth
year with Light heart.
MILAN, of Servia is said to be financially
the poorest King living
THE Duke of Argyle has declared himself
to be in favor of cremation
Mrs. SHERIDAN, widow of the General, has
Cherokee blood in her veins
WENDELL PHILLIPS body lies in an I'M
marked grave at Milton, Mass.
A son of President Tyler has been chosen
President of William and Mary College at
Williamsburg, Va.
Mrs. HoPKIHs-SEARLE has bought $3.50, 900
worth Of paintings in Paris for her mansion
at Great Darlington, Mass.
AMELIE RIvEs CHAMBER, the Virginia au-
thOresS, receives about thirty letters day
from admirers of her works.
JOHN HoEY. President of the Adams Elk
press Company, has sailed for Europe, where
he will organize an express system.
Mr.. WHITEBREAD, a member Of the Eng
nSh Parliament, is said to make over 81 ,OOO,-
00O per year from his beer brewery.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL is an enthusi-
astic student Of Gibbon, and can repeat by
heart long passages of the decline and Fall
of Rome"
THE Queen of Spain has set her heart upon
making st. Sebastian, on the Spanish coast,
an Autumn resort of the fashionable worlds
of all nations
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH, of Austria,
takes beer at luncheon, a limited amount of
champagne at dinner and smokes the COM
mOneSt kind of cigars.
PRINCESS BEATRICE, daughter of Queen
Victorin, has sent some of her own musical
compositions to the exhibition of wOman'S In
dustrieS in Sydney, Australia.
EMPEROR WILLIAM II. of Germany has
passion for having his photographs taken.
Since his accession to the throne he has flood
ed Germany with his pictures
The Earl of Rosslyn is a candidate for
laureate laurels. Queen Victoria has ap-.
proved of his two sonnetS on the death of
Emperor Frederick and ''cOmmanded' him
to publish them.
MRS. CARLISLE, who is keeping house at
Washington for the first time, enjoys having
guests at dinner, and the Speaker has in
structions to bring home friends with him in
the afternoon when the house is not full of
visitors.
THE Master of Trinity College, Oxford,
England, who married Miss Ramsay, the
distinguished Senior Classic, presented his
bride for a wedding gift with the works of
Plato SophOcles, and Dante splendidly
bound In morocco.
The smallest member of the Supreme
Court of the United States is the new Chief
Justice, who is but five feet six inches tall,
and weighs only 125 pounds. Associate jas
tice Gray is the largest. measuring six feet
five inches in height and tipping the beam at
nearly 800 pounds.
GENERAL CURTIS, the American Party's
candidate for President, is bright and CHEEKY
and evidently sincere. He is interested in
various steel companies i'll New DIRK City
and New Jersey, is siXty-SiN years old, Is
reputed to be worth s., 900, 900 and lives at
Bridgeport Conn.
THERE are several left-handed writers at
the Capitol Representative Hopkins, of Hi
nos, writes with the left hand exclusively, |
never having learned or tried to use the pen
with the right Mr. McComas, of Mary
land, writes with either hand at pleasure, |
but not with both at once
RUSSELL SAGE Is at least fifteen years
older than Jay Gould, but he has not a !
wrinkle In his face, and is as well preserved /
as a man of fifty. He attributes his cOntin- .
ued good health, after twenty-five years in +
Wall street, to the fact that he never permits .
himself to worry about business outside OF .
business hours.
AT his White House Monday receptions,
President Cleveland has introduced nov .
city in his attire. Heretofore he has worn
black frOck coat on such occasions. Recently I
he was attired in pepper -and-sat business .
suit. The costume was in the latest style.
A low-cut vest and wide trousers proved (
this.