The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-08
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
VI threatens Queen Victorln.

GoUT threatens Queen Victoria.
DIR. TALMAGE receives $500 lecture.
ZoLA is the best paid novelist in France
The King of Sweden has written play.
Mrs BENJAMIN HARRISON weighs 157
pounds
GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN is said TO be worth
$50, 100000.
SIN G. b. AIRY, the noted astronomer is
eighty-seven.
THE Earl of Dudley lost $50 900 at cards in
Paris recently.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER's life
is insured for 81, 100000.
JOHN G.. WHITTIER, the poet, Is roaming
through the White Mountains
BABY MCKEE, the Presidents grandchild,
tips the beam at nineteen pounds.
The King of Italy has been limited by his
physicians To ten cigarettes day.
KING KALAKAUA has an annual income of
$40, 900 a year, but he is continually hard up.
SENATOR BECK, of Kentucky, is fond of
hunting, and bags good deal OF game in tho
course OF Il year.
THE Prince of Wales is one Of the best in
formed men i'll England. He rarely opens
book, but is always conversing with cul-
tured people
KING MENILEK the new ruler of Abys-
sinia, Is fierce looking man, dark, tall thin
and active, with piercing black eyes and u
long dark beard.
CHAUNcEY NJ DEPEw never writes n,
speech, but usually spends few moments in
rejecting ON his subject, jotting down few
headings in the process.
PROFESSOR TODD, of Amherst College, is
to lead the Government expedition TO South
western Africa to observe the total eclipse OF
the sun on December %.
1T is proposed in Fremont Ohio, To estab-
lish q school in honor of the late Mrs Hayes.
wife of ex-President Hayes The school is to,
be given the name Lucy Webb Hayes Semi
nary
CONGRESSMAN SUNSET Cox is over
sixty years of age, although his wit and vi
vacity keep him young. His hair has be-
come thin and gray, but his eyes are as
bright as ever.
The Earl of Fife and the Princess Louise.
who were recently married, are third cousins
both being eat-great-grandchildren of
George III. Their wedding presents were
valued at 81 100000
PRESIDENT HARRIgDN, Secretary Of the
Treasury Window and Cardinal Gibbons,
were the most prominent guests at the recent
dinner given at Deer Park, Md, by ex-Uui-
ted States Senator Davis, OF West Vir-
ginia.
THOMAS A, EDISON has sailed for Europe for
the purpose of getting view of the Paris
Exposition and of the way in which his var
ious inventions are displayed there. He is
accompanied by his wife, who is the daugk-
ter of another inventor.
SENATOR EUsTIs, OF Louisiana, is so fond
of Washington that he spends most of his
time there during hisCongressional vacations.
He is TO be seen on Pennsylvania avenue,
attired in flannel, alpaca, straw hat and
russell leather shoes He is very fond of
baseball.
President PATTON and ex-President Nc
Gosh, of Princeton, are to deliver addresses at
Harrisville, in Bucks County, Penn, Septem-
ber 8, in commemoration OF the founding of
the LOG College" there in l726, which was the
beginning of the educational work of the
Presbyterian Church in this country.
Don JOSE ZoRRILLA, who was recently
crowned poet laureate Of Spain, is a short
slender old man, seventy-two years of age.
He has fine head, with white hair brushed
back from the forehead. His eyes are large
and dreamy, and his mouth is handsome
His moustache and goatee give him military
appearance.