Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-10-04
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

LORD TENNYsox walks three miles every
day.
KIHG ALFONSO, Of Spain, weighs thirty
ave pounds.
MRS. CLEVELAND writes a letter 70 her
mother every day in the year
MARY ANDERSON is responsible for tbs
popularity of English shoes among kzneri
cans.
Mr.. EDISON smokes a great deal: the more
work he does, the more cigars he con-
sumeS.
GEORGE W. WILLIAMS, the historian of
the colored race in America, is living at
Worcester.
MARSHAL FIELD is rated the wealthiest
man in Chicago, with fortune amounting
TO SIS, 900, 900.
EX-SENATOR PLAT, of New York. reaches
his Office by $50 every morning and never
leaves before s.
JOAQUIN MILLER contemplates purchasing
a yacht and leaving San Francisco for a
cruise in the South Seas
NINE. CARNoT wife OF the French Presi-
dent is OF medium height, with olive COM
plexion and Roman features
CHARLES F. FARRAR son of Canon
Farrar, Of England, has come TO this coun-
try TO complete his education.
PRINCE BISMARCK now devotes a great of
time to playing solitaire. This was favor
AIe caro- game OF Napoleon L.
SENATOR MORRILL,. of Vermont, isseventy-
nine years old, and has represented his State
at W ashlngton thirty-ive years.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Civil Service Com
missioner is getting comfortably near i'm
mortality. His handwriting has been dis
covered to be as bad Horace Greeley's
Ex-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is still I'M
decided as TO his European trip. Mrs Cleve-
land Is said to be anxious TO go across ana
q fpvV he in =
MARK TWAIN asks from $500 to a $1,000
for story or sketch and he gets what he
asks. Frank Stockton's price for 1000 words
is $3.50. I. Is. Aldrich charges $500 for few
verses.
SIR WILLIAM MCGRKGOR, Governor of
New Zealand, has recently made the ascent
of Mount Victoria - l2l feet high, the high
est peak Of the Owen Stanley range, New
Zealand
MISS HELEN GOULD, daughter of jay
Gould, is said to have always believed she
had a mission to teach, and even now in
structs four music pupils, members Of her
church, at her home.
WILKIE COLLINS, the novelist is short and
delicate looking with very small hands and
feet and cheerful face. His luxuriant hair
and beard are snowy white and he habitually
wears spectacles. He is an inveterate
smoker.
AMONG the distinguished octogenarians
who make practice of early rising may be
named Cardinal Newman. He is very feeble
but still receives visitors, and always treats
Americans with especial cordiality and
courtesy.
WILLIAM f. HENLEY, who has won recog-
milton poet, was laborer of dissipated
habits when an accident that crushed both of
his legs laid him up at a hospital, where he
came under the influence or Robert Louis
Stevenson
COUNT Won MOLTKE has been appointed
Honorary Colonel of the Seventy first Aus
trian Infantry Regiment. If anything can
prove that 1866 and Sadowa are extinguished
in the memory of Austria this appointment,
by which the Austrian army salAtes its con-
querOr a COmrade, must do 50.
WHEN Mr.. Andrew Clarke entered Lon
don Hospital assistant he III poor
health. Poor Scotch beggar," said one Of
the faculty, ''let him have a place: he can
not possibly live more than six months" He
is now, after these many years of eminent
service, Sir Andrew Clarke perhaps the most
famous physician in England