The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-07
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

WALT WHITMAN the poet, is reduced to
wheel chair.
PRINCE BISMARCK has been ordered to take
o physical and mental rest.
Mrs. FRANK LESLIE wears black leather
boots with tips and laces Of silver.
PRESIDENT CARNoT, of France, is making
arrangements for visit to Algeria
LORD TENNYsoN is hard at work on new
$1,000 poem for one of the English maya
zines.
THE King of Bavaria receives an income
of 81, 900, 900 year from the profits of
brewery.
LAFcApIo HEARN, the brilliant New Or
leans writer, has Greek mother and a Brit
ish father.
THE new crown being made for the En-
press of Germany will contain 1900 diamonds
and eleven large pearls.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to have real estate
investments in New York city which pay
her handsome income.
THE mother of Bayard Taylor recently
celebrated her eghtieth birthday. She lives
at Kenneth Square, Penn.
SIR FREDERICK YOUNG, the English scien-
tist at the age of seventy, has just finished
trip of 600 miles through Africa.
A MARBLE statue of the Princess of Wales,
erection at Copenhagen Denmark.
THE efforts which are making to induce
Oliver Wendell Holmes to write an auto
biography are not likely to meet with sue.
cess
HISTORIAN BANCROFT says that he feels as
well as he did sixty years ago Horseback
riding he asserts, is the best elixir of
youth.
SECRETARY BALFoUR. the best hated
man in England" is forty-one years old
and does not look like strong man either
mentally or physically.
The Sultan of Turkey has lost great deal
of flesh of late and begins to look like an
old man. His physicians have ordered him
to drink plenty of wine.
GENERAL STUART VAN VLIET is the old
est General of the retired list in the United
States Army He is seventy-four years
old and served fifty-two years.
WILLIAM O'BRIEN, the Irish patriot. is
slim, weakly built, consumptive-looking
man of four and thirty, with a paid, intel
lectual face and a fair chin-beard.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS is determined
looking, ACCOMPLISHMENTS, polished
spoken man, with cean-shayen upper lip
and iron gray side whisker of the proverbal
English barrister He is six and sixty less
| four months
| ACTING REAR-ADsuRAL JOHN G. WALKER
| who has just been ordered to command the
| Squadron of Evolutions. with the new cruiser
| Chicago as his flagship, is a man of striking
appearance. He is about six feet in height,
with broad shoulders and erect form, and
wears long side whiskers.
BRET HARTE, who has a great social as
well as literary popularity in England. is now
| a handsome, ruddy, white-haired man, and
! owes his popularity In measure to his mas
terry of Western slang; and that eloquence of
! restitution of the proper phrase, his pathetic,
uneducated. humoristic slang
DR.. TALMAGE is a tall. acrobatic-
manered man of lanky build, with paid
| face framed in well-trimmed side-whiskers
| He sermonizes after a delightfully."- original
fashion, and though his utterance is trife
disjointed, he is an excellent preacher. lie
is also seven and fifty, and he is getting bald
on top.
THE new United States cruiser, which will
be constructed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
will be limited in cost to 81 100 900. Before any
work is done in the ship proper model viii
be made on the scale of quarter of an inch to
the foot. This model will be 12is feet long and
perfect in every detail. From it the sched-
ules of the materials will be made.
SOME English and American physicians
have resolved to found in Vienna society
to be called the Anglo American Vienna
Medical Association, with view to giving
information and moral supportto the Engist
and American doctors and students of medi
cine who come to the Vienna University.
The cost to the British Government for tn,
carriage OF mails to America now amounts
to $500 coo per annum. The receipts fol
postage excesd sseS, 90 per annum