Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-04-27
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

MRS. GARFIELD's income is $4,000 year.
THE Queen of Italy has been photographed
I03 times
GOVERNOR HILLS father was the captain
of a canal boat.
IT is said that the German Emperor, when
a boy, learned the trade of cabinet making.
SENATOR HoAR delivered the grafton of
the day at the centennial celebration at Mari
eta, Ohio
QUEEN VICTORIA travels as the Countess
Balmoral," but her baggage is marked
"Queen of England"
THE ex-Queen of Naples, who lives in
France, has large stable of horses and de-
votes her time to racing
GLADSTONE is preparing reply to Robert
G. lngersoll's attack on religion, to be pub
Eshed in an American magazine.
ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND, sister of the
President, denies that she is doing any work
for publication. Her pen is busy on lectures
for her pupils.
UNITED STATES SENATOR MORRILL,. of
Vermont has Just celebrated his seventy
eighth birthday. He has been Senator for
twenty-one years.
JUDGE GREsHAM's greatest happiness is
found in overlooking his farm near Indian
apols. He is an especially good judge Of the
points of fine porkers.
THE tallest man in the United States
Senate is Blodgett, of New Jersey He is six
feet four. Mr.. Spooner, of Wisconsin, is the
shortest man in the Senate.
Mrs. HARRIET R. ScHATTUcK, president
of the recent Women's Convention at WASH
ington, lives in a charming nook at the edge
of Middlesex Falls, the great forest park
north of Boston.
Count ZANG, who died in Vienna few
weeks ago, made fortune of $4,000, 900 by
the sale of Vienna bread. In 1S42 he opened
the first shop in Paris for the production Of
Vienna bread, and the bakery still exists.
OSCAR WILDE is described by lady who
recently saw the former apostle of knee
breeches and long tresses as a brawny, we'll
knit giant of feet, with heavy face and
an abundance of adpose tissue. He Is sleek
and silken- hammered, but not over careful of
his Dress
THE Gar of Russia is said to do much
more work than any of his Ministers, and
can be found at his desk at almost any hour
of the day He rises before any of his house
hold, attends mass every morning, and is
scrupulously exact in the performance of all
his religious duties.
Mrs. MARY A. LowMAN, the new Mayor
of Oskaloosa Kan, is forty-nine years old
school teacher and for nearly five years has
been chief clerk in the office of the County
Register of Deeds. She is the mother of two
children, son and daughter, each Of whom
is of adult age
MAzzANTINI, the noted Spanish bull
fighter, now in Mexico, is man of fine edu-
cation, having been graduated with honors
few years ago from college in Rome. He
was for time the private secretary of one of
the confidential advisers of King Amadeus, of
Spain. He is a first. class telegraph operator.
was successful as railroad man, is good
singer, and has no rival as the best bull
fighter in the world-and yet he is only 2s
years old.
THE fact is pointed out that many Of the
most brilliant men and women in American
literature are growing old and cannot hope
for many more years of active work.
Lowell is 10. Parke Goodwin, 70; Joel T. Head
ley, Washington's historian, is "a; "Mrs.
Partington,n IS; while Francis Parkman, the
historian DR.. Holmes, Mr. Whittier, DR.. Nc
Gosh, Theodore Woolsey, Margaret Preston,
George Bancroft and many others are far
advanced in life.