Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-02-24
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

THE Prince of Wales is again undergoing
treatm ent to reduce his obesity.
The Chinese Minister Is said to buy more
bouquets than anyone else in Washington.
THE mother of Garfield reposes by the side
of her son in Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland.
CHAUNCEY DEPEw and Mayor Hewitt are
the most-sought after diners-out in Gotham.
Mr.. PARNELL now takes daily horseback
exercise in London wrapped in a huge
ulster.
FRANCIS MURPHY, the temperance orator,
| has decided to enter the ministry of the NJ.
Z. Church.
Mrs. GARRETT ANDERSON, the leading
woman physician of England, makes an in
come Of S50,UO0 year.
Mr.. BLAINE is said to be taking notes on
| his travels in Europe, from which he will
write book on his return.
De GRIMM, the New York cartoonist, who
claims to be Russian Baron, is said to be a
son of one of the Cars tailors.
DIR. G.. G. E. WEBER, of Cleveland, Ohio,
was a fellow student with the Crown Prince
! OF Germany at Bonn, on the Rhine.
Won MoLTKE is likely to live to be of great
age. He leads a thoroughly domestic life,
sees little company, talks rarely and plays
whist.
THE Marquis of Lansdowne will go to In
dia in June. The salary of the Viceroy of
India is Sl25,O00 year, with allowances of
| $50, 600 more,
| PRESIDENT CARNoT thinks that any
Frenchman who would drive France into
war with Germany so long as Bismarck and
| Won Moltke live ought to be shot.
CAPT. SMITH Cook, candidate for door
keeper of the Kentucky House of Represent
| tatives, is seven feet eight inches tall. He is
the tallest native born American living
GENERAL MOSES CLEVELAND. founder Of
Cleveland, Ohio Is to have a 5000 granite
monument there, to be dedicated July -,
under the charge of the Early Settlers
| Association.
IT is estimated that in order to be able to
wear all his decorations and orders at one
time Prince Bismarck would require a breast
thirty feet in breadth Their weight amounts
to a little over forty pounds.
"BoBn INGERsoLL is an nveterate smoker,
and year ago he had to limit himself, for
his throat began to trouble him and his
physicians said thathe was in fair way to fol-
low General Grant with a cancerous growth
unless he called halt,
SIR MoRELL MACKENZIE, the German
Crown Princes physician, is said to have
refused $4,000 to come over to the United
States and examine royal American throat.
Thirty thousand dollars is more than many
an NJ. d. makes in lifetime.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has adopted the
habit of slipping away from his desk for half
an hour at about dusk for q sharp walk of
two miles through the unfreguented portion'.of
Washington's West End He Is said to have
already reduced his weight about twenty
pounds.
SENATOR HoAR, of Massachusetts,. is dec
Grated with more college titles than any
other member of either house of Congress.
The degree of LII. ID. has been conferred on
him by five different colleges-namely, Will
lam and Mary, Harvard, Amherst, Williams
and Yale.
MRS LIVERMoRE was recently showed UP
in New Hampshire and the heroic efforts
made by party of gentlemen in digging her
out and taking her to train led her to say,
and to say it boldly, that american men
are the best in the world" And she adds
emphatically: This | will persist in declar'
! ing forever and forever
Mr.. LANG, the interpreter of the Chinese
legation at Washington, is the most EN-
: barrassed man in the whole legation wher
he appears in sociey. As diplomat, he il
obliged, mnch against his choice, to wear the
rich silken gowns of sky pink and robins egg
) blue. for which his countrymen are famous
: A bill has been introduced in the New Jer
7 sey Legislature providing that on the petit
ton of one-tenth of the voters in any county
the question Of the sale OF liquor shall b'
2 submitted to popular vote in that county.