The national leader., 1889-09-28
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

LORD TENNYsoN walks three miles every
day.
KING ALFONSO, Of Spain, weighs thirty
five pounds.
MARY ANDERSON is responsible for the
popularity of English shoes among Ameri-
cans. '.. -
Mr., EDISON smokes great deal; the more
work he does, the more cigars he con-
sumes
GEORGE w. WILLIAMS, the historian of
the eolored race In America, is living at
Worcester,
MARSHAL FIELD is rated the wealthiest
man in Chicago, with a fortune amounting
to s25, 600, OOO
EX-SENATOR PLATT, of New York, reaches
his office by $50 every morning and never
leaves before 5.
JOAQUIN MILLER contemplates purchasing
a yacht and leaving San Francisco for q
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 great Of
time to playing solitaire. This was favor
ite card game of Napoleon l.
SENATOR MORRILL,, of Vermont, isseventy-
nine years old, and has represented his State
at Washington thirty-five years.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Civil Service Com
missioner, is getting comfortably near inn
mortality. His handwriting has been dis
covered to be as bad as Horace Greeley's
Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND is still un
decided as to his European trip. Mrs. Cleve
land is said to be anxious TO go across ant
spend few months in the south of France.
MARK TWAIN asks from $500 to $1OOt
for story sketch and he gets what he
asks. Frank Stockton's price for 5000 wordi
is $3.50. T. B. Aldrich charges $500 for few
verses.
SIR WILLIAM MCGRzGoR, Governor Of
New Zealand, has recently made the ascent
of Mount Victoria, 13, 121 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 shs
had 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
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 E. HENLEY, who has won recog-
nition as poet, was Iaborer of dissipated
habits when an accident that crushed both Of
his legs laid him up at hospital, where he
came under the influence of Robert Louis
Stevenson.
COUNT Won MoLTKE has been appointed
Honorary Colonel of the Seventy-frst Aus
trian Infantry Regiment. If anything
prove that 1866 and Sadowa are extinguished
in the memory of Austria this appointment,
by which the Austrian army salutes it's con-
queror as a comrade, must do &c.
WHEN Mr. Andrew Clarke entered Lon
don Hospital as an assistant he was in poor
health. 'Poor Scotch beggar," said one Of
the faculty, ''let him have 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