Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-10-12
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

BISMARCK has mania for getting weighed
frequently.
EVANGELIST MOODY will spend the winter
in California.
THOMAS A. EDISON is studying the problem
of aerial navigation.
THE Kings of Cambodia and Assam will
visit Paris next year.
THE Ameer of Afghanistan is said to be
meditating journey to England.
IT is rumored that Bismarck will follow
Won Moltke'S example and resign.
THE Prince of Wales has accepted an invi-
tation to visit the Car of Russia.
ANDREW CARNEGIE came to the United
States in 1915, when he was 10 years old.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, receives
almost daily letters threatening his life.
COUNT ALBIN CSAKY has been appointed
to succeed the late Herr Trefort in the Hun
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
year is a Texas man, Richard Kidd, who was
born lis years ago.
The Russian Grand Dukes Sergius and
Paul have been received and entertained by
the Sultan at STEAMBOAT
THE tallest man in Congress is Stewart, of
Texas, while Bowers, of Georgia, is the lean
est. Senator Ingalls, is the thinnest.
CHICAGO gave Chief Justice Melville G..
Fuller a notable banquet and reception on
the eve Of his departure for Wash ngton.
SENATOR SAWYER will be seventy seven
years old when his present term expires and
he says he viii then retire from public life.
JUDGE WALTER Q. GRESHAM has returned
to Chicago. He says that, as he is the
Bench, he will not take any part in the cam
paign.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY FAIR
CHILD's grandfather was the printer and
lawyer.
PRINCE GEORGE, of Greece has been be-
trothed to Princess Marguerite, second daugh-
ter of the Due de Chatres and a 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 novel,
FURTHER discussion upon Mr.. Gladstone
reveals the fact that he was fogged only once
at Elton. for refusing to give away a school
fellow who had got into trouble
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, the famous nurse
is a confirmed invalid being patient in ST.
Thomass hospital, London She has never
recovered from the injury TO her spine
ceived during the Crimea.
GENERAL RUSSELL A ALGER, of Michi-
gan, IS worth S1O,OO0,OO0 His money Is lu-
vested in pine and mineral land, a railroad
and bank All of his fortune has been
made within fifteen years.
BELvA LOCKWOOD has been married
twice. She is also a graduate of two col
leges- She has both experience and accom-
pllshment, and yet her candidacy for the
Presidency can be looked upon only as
joke.
FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN. the poet has
a great fondnesS for the hig her mathematics,
particularly ca culus. He is at present
preparing for the press a textbook cal-
culus, while a. the same time revising his
poems for publication.
WILSON WADDINGHAM, of Savin Rock,
Conn, is said to be the largest land older in
the United Stat He is believed to own
over ? 900. 100 acres of graz ng land in New
Mexico and elsewhere, and he has also made
large investments IN real estate in Western
titles.
Prospects for increased apple exports
from .lmerica this year are encouraging.