Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-03-09
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

OSCAR WILDE has cut off his ringlets and
discarded Knickerbockers.
DIR. PATTON has formally accepted the
| presidency of Princeton College.
THE late Professor Asa Gray, the great
botanist, was firm believer in the science of
evolution.
Mr.. CARLISLE is said to dress with more
taste than any man who has occupied the
| Speakers chair.
PAINTING and the reading of English re-
| ligious literature are the chief occupations
of the Queen of Sweden.
SENATOR FARwELL, of Illinois, has an in
come of 800 day. 1t is not many years
since he was working for So a month.
THE Standard Oil men of Russia are the
| Noble Brothers, who are said to be worth
| $500, 00l Their income is greater than
the Cars
the world is Mr.. Abel, proprietor of the Bal
timore San, whose fortune is estimated at
| $40, 000, 900.
GENERAL JOSEPH BATES recently died at
his home in BraZoria, Texas, aged eighty nine
years. He served with distinction in the
Seminole war.
GENERAL WILLIAM H. GIBSON, the silver
tongued Republican orator, is now regu-
larly ordained minister in the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
GENERAL SHERMAN always chews his cigars
half way before he lights them and takes a
full half of his excellent Havana in what is
known as "dry smoke"
GENERAL ALLEN THOMAS, coiner of the
mint of New Orleans comes, according to
| the HiCdyltne, almost up to ones ideal OF
what is called manly beauty.
SENATOR HEARST, of California, is inter-
ested i'll nearly all the principal gold mines in
the West, and is said not to have lost dollar
in his mining investments in fifteen years.
SENATOR STANFoRD's wife has the largest
collection of diamonds possessed by any lady
now in Washington. Among them are four
sets that belonged to the late Queen Isabella,
of Spain.
THE Rev Phillips Brooks is probably the
most difficult man in the American pulpit
for stenographer to follow When he gets
fairly warmed up to his subject he talks at
the rate of $50 words a minute
MRS. REA, wife of the National Comman-
der of the Grand Army of the Republic, has
q hobby for the collection of spoons. In
every town she visits she purchases a silver
spoon, and has it engraved with the date and
place.
DR. SCHwEINFURTH says that Emin Pasha
before going to the Soudan became master
of German, English, French, Italian and sew
eral Russian dialects, Turkish and Arabic
and he is now probably familiar with half
the tongues of Central Africa.
PROBABLY the richest woman in New
England is Mrs. William Gammell, of Provi
dence, R. l., whose fortune is estimated al
from S12 900. 00O to SIC, 900, 900. The founda
ton of it was laid in the days when Boston's
East India trade was in its glory.
d. r. LOCKE, who died in Toledo, Ohio
the other day worth $l,500,0O0 set the type
for the first edition of his Nasty letters pub
lished in Indianapolis in 1858. The book wa
yellow-covered pamphlet of one hundred
pages and brought the author between $40
and $780,
SENATOR BLAIR, of New Hampshire, is o
Scotch Irish descent, and is straight, tall
brown-haired man, with a strawberry
blonde complexion a sandy beard and blu
eyes. He is noted as a temperance advocate
a great friend of the Indians, and is in favo
of womans rights
,, EX-SENATOR TABOR, of Colorado, has al
income of over 81 900 day from his Vultur
Mine, near Tucson, Ariz He recently re
ceived from the mine gold brick weighing
633 ounces, and valued Mt $l2, 900, which rep
resented the product of the mine for littl
more than week.
THE Duke of Newcastle, now on a visit t.
this country, is only five feet high, wears
cork leg, limps badly when he walks, and
; altogether very unprepoSessing in appear
ance. But he has an income of O million
year, owns the famous blue diamond whic
is worth one hundred and fifty thousand do
lars, and is considered great "catch'
| sociaty