The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-08-22
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
PARNELI's health is broken.

PARNELL's health is broken
LORD TENNYsoN is eighty years old.
JOHN G.. WHIrTIER's health is very poor.
LOUIS KossUTH Is lightweight years Of
age.
GLADSTONE will visit the Paris Exhibit
ton.
PRESIDENT HARR1soN's favorite fish "a
shad.
MAYOR filler, of Philadelphia, writes
poetry.
FELIX PYAr, the French writer and dra-
matist, Is dead.
GUNMAKER KRUPps statue has been raised
in Essen, Germany.
GENERAL BoULANGER has ceased to be
much noticed in London.
SAM JONES, the reyivalist, says he earns
s25 900 year at his work.
KING KALAKAUA, of the Sandwich Islands,
has given up his proposed European jaunt
THE English Dukes Of Norfolk, Devon
shire, Richmond and Grafton are all widow
ers.
HERoIc-sIzED monu uental statues of
Grant, Sheridan and Fan Wsut are to be put
up in Boston.
Ii HUNG CHANG, the Viceroy of the Chi
nese Empire has sent his son to study affairs
in Washington.
THE reception of the Shah of Persia in
Scotland was deficient in conspicuous enthu-
siasm on the part Of the people
CLARA BARTON, President Of the Red
Cross Association, is the only American en-
titled to wear the Iron Gross Of Prussia.
QUEEN VICTORIA is now Colonel in the
German army and young Emperor William
is an honorary Admiral in the British navy.
KING ALEXANDER, of Servia, is not thir-
teen years old, but he is precociously devel-
oped, and looks as English boys do at fifteen
or sixteen
IT is announced in Baltimore that million
aire Robert Garrett. of Baltimore has fully
recovered his health. He Is spending the
summer near Bar Harbor.
1t is rumored that Queen Victoria has at
last yielded to her physicians and will take a
long sea trip, perhaps to India, or possibly to
Canada and the United States.
PRESIDENT CARNoT, of France, is lit
erary man by inheritance and habit. He has
written good deal of poetry which has never
appeared in print Partisan publishers have
tempted him in vain.
D. o. MILLS, the millionaire, is still
an active worker, although now sixty-eight
years old. His fortune amounts to sec, 000,-
600, of which he laid the foundation in Pa
ciflc slope dairy farm.
THE indignant Hadii Hassein Ghooly
Khan will be succeeded as Persian ambassa.
dor at Washington by Amnlu Abdallah, who
is said to be the latest man in Persia. His
weight is stated to be SAT pounds.
Ex-JUsTIeE STRONG, who some years since
resigned his seat on the Bench of the SUI
preme Court Of the United States, is now at
the ripe age Of eighty-one years, and still
hale and vigorous in both body and mind
He is a great specimen of great and good
man.
JUDGE THOMAS NJ. COOLEY, of Michigan,
the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, has declined an offer from Ger
tain railroad companies to enter into their
service at a salary of $25, 900 year. He
prefers his present office, although the COM
pensation is not one-third as much.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN RANDOLPH TUCKER has
formally accepted the professorship of con-
stitutional law at the Washington and Lee
University, at Lexington, Va. In his speech
accepting the position Mr.. Tucker announced
his permanent retirement from politics and
his Intention to devote the remainder of his
life to teaching