Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-08
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

BISMARCK now weighs only 100 pounds
Ii HI is the name of the King of Corea.
THE active career of NJ de Lesseps is over.
MRS JAMES G.. BLAINE has turned sixty.
JOHN BRIGHT is in his seventy seventh
year.
THE Hon. Lambert Tree has resigned as
Minister to Russia
BATTENBERG, husband of Princess Beatrice,
Is to be made a Duke.
CABANEL, the French artist, left fortune
or more than $4OO, 900.
JAY GOULD is said to be completely under
the thumb of his son George.
THE annual income of the young German
Emperor is estimated at 100000.
CARL SCHURz seems to have regained his
youth since his return from Europe.
GENERAL BOULANGER grows stronger in
popularity and real power every day.
CONGRESSMAN W. L. SCOTT, of Erie,
Penn, is worth probably ST., 100000.
QUEEN VICTORIA saves more than $780,
OOC per annum from the civil list alone.
DR. GATLING, the inventor of the famous
gun by that name is a North Carolinian.
Mrs. LEVI ?. MORTON speaks and writes
German, French and Spanish with ease and
correctness.
THE Duke of Sutherland has bought a
property in Florida, and renamed it Suther-
land Naror.
COLONEL FRED GRANT Is g0LClnS very
much like his father in appearance, although
he is taller and heavier.
GENERAL LEGITIME, the Haytian Prasi-
dent, is described as looking like ''Sara-
toga hotel head waiter"
ANDREW CARNEGIE the millionaire iron
founder, began his business career by sweep
ing out an office in Pittsburg.
The growing influence in Germany of
Count Waldersee has brought him into
prominence rival of Bismarck
STANLEY BROWN, who married Miss Moll;e
Garfield, will soon take a position in the
Geological Survey at Washington.
JAY GOULD, of New York, has resigned as
director of the Delaware Lackawanna and
Western Railroad, owing to i'll health.
A WHITE marble figure of the late Emperor
William, similar to the figures of his parents
has been placed in the Charlottenburg mauso-
leum.
WILLIAM SUNDAY, a well-known member
Of the Chicago Baseball Club, is conducting
Sabbath revival meetings in the Western
metropolis.
Mr.. H. H. JOHNSTON. the African ex
plorer, IS now about forty-fve years old:
small, wiry man, with bright eyes and
bronzed face.
SIR MORELL MACKENZIE has been offered
$1,000 with $500 additional for his SON
10 come to America for the purpose of select
ing spot for sanitarium This offer was
declined.
The widow of Professor Richard A. Proc
tor, residing In Florida, receives pension of
$oOO year, granted by the British Govern
ment upon the request of the leading Eng
ish scientists
JOHN MEYERS, who took the chief part in
the Passion Play at Ober-Ammergau in 1850,
Is getting ready for it's repetition this year.
Hls preparation consists principally of letting
his hair grow.
POOR King Otto's latest craze is mania for
skating. This would be harmless were it not
Tor the fact that the Bavarian Monarch takes
a hendish delight in Swimming over the most
dangerous places, and compeIs his agonized
attendants to accompany him.
REV. ROBERT COLLIER the famous New
York divine, has presented Cornell Univer-
slty with an old factory bell which has an
interesting history. 1t was the bell that rang
him to work every morning in his young
days and fixed the time the days toll was
over The bell will be used at Cornell for
summonlng the students to their classes.
In all the Vanderbilt mansions are life-size
portraits of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the
founder of their fortunes; also of W. III.
Vanderbilt. All the portraits of the former
were taken few years before his death, and
show handsome old gentleman with a
highly clerical cast of countenance, more
like college dean than a railroad king