Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-05
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

JAY GOULD has taken to wearing spec
tacles.
Ex-KING MILAN of Servia is quite an
orator.
SECRETARY BLAINE is the only college
graduate in the Cabinet.
THE hair of King Ohio of Bavaria re-
Gently turned white in night.
HENRY GEORGE, the land tax advocate, is
making great stir in England.
The Princess of Wales inherits her unfor
tunate deafness from her mother.
SECRETARY WINDOW had his early training
in good old-fashioned Quaker schools.
ROBERT BONNER, proprietor of the New
York Ledger, is sixty-four years old.
POsTMAsTER-GENERAL WANAMAKER has
four children, two sons and two daughters.
THE Governor General of Canada, Lord
Stanley, has seven children-aI boys but
one
JESSE GRANT, the youngest son of Genera
Grant, has bought large farm in Cali
fornia.
Mr.. BALFoUR, the Chief Secretary for
Ireland, has bought 1000 acres of land in
New Zealand.
THOMAS MAST, the artist, has accepted a
place on the San Francisco Examiner as car
toonist extraordinary
MRS. NELLIE GRANT SARTORIs, under the
will of her father-in-law, comes into for
tune of about $75O,OO0.
MICHAEL LEE, the new President of the
City Council at Omaha, Neb, was formerly
a hotel porter and bootblack.
The grief of the Emperor and Empress of
Austria over the death of their son Prince
Rudolf, is said to be uncomfortable.
EX-SENATOR TABOR. of Colorado, began
life under Secretary Proctor, working for
some time in his marble quarries in Yer
mont.
JOHN D. ARCHBoLD, of the Standard Oil
Trust, who has q fortune of SIC. 900 900, was,
twenty-five years ago, a poor laborer in the
Oil fields.
CEAUNCEY M. DEPEw. President of the
New York Central Railroad, has accepted
an invitation to deliver the Grafton at the
Yale Law School commencement in June.
SIGNoR CR1sPI. the italian Prime Minis
ter, is short, compactly built, white haired,
gray mustached, with round, well-balanced
head, firmly set mouth and pair of keen,
quick eyes.
REDFIELD PROCTOR, the Secretary of War,
is the father of four children, the oldest of
whom, Colonel Fletcher D. Proctor, is his
fathers right-hand man and the superin-
tendent of his business.
AT the London Stuart Exhibition the
other day: ''If | had been Mary Queen of
Scots" said the Empress Frederick. of Ger
many, II would have been beheaded three
times over during last year"
PARNELL, the Irish leader, pays strict
attention to his diet, avoiding meats as far
as possible. At luncheon his only refresh
ment very often is glass of hot water into
which a lemon has been squeezed.
The Empress dowager of China, who still
remains Empress Regent, has ruled China
for twenty-five years. She is now over fifty.
She is a skilful archer, she boxes and in
other ways exhibits her independence Of
character.
BARON REUTER-, the famous telegram
magnate. has surrendered his concession for
the construction Of Persian railways, and has
obtained instead a concession for an In
perial Bank of Persia and for the unap-
propriated Persian mines
MRS. HARLAN. wife of Justice Harlan. who
has taken Mrs. Logan's place at the head of
the Washington ladies who have charge of
the Garfield Hospital is tall, quite stout and
a lady Of commanding presence. She has
fine face, dark eyes and gray hair.
GENERAL JAMES N. LoNGsTREET. the
oldest Confederate officer, is living in Wash
ington. He looks like the late Emperor
William, having fine figure, imposing
presence, broad face, high forehead and flow
ing, snow white side whiskers and mustache.