The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-06-13
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

MARK TwAIN's income is $50 600 year.
SENATOR FARwELL began life as sur
veyor.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT began lilo as o
farmer
JOHN BRIGHT bequeathed $49o,920 to his
children.
P.T. BARNUM earned his first money as II
bartender.
PRINCE GEORGE of Greece has joined the
French navy.
EARL GRANVILLE, the British statesman
Il seventy three.
Tsut Kwo YIN is the name of the new
Minister from China to the United States.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, the new Civil
Service Commissioner, is thirty-two years
old.
SIR JULIAN PAUNCEFoTE, the new British
Minister. says his name is pronounced
.'Pantsfut."
Ex-PREsIDENT RUTHERFORD b. HAYES
has been giving course of lectures at ooer'
lin College, Ohio.
KING ALEXANDER l., of Servia, though
only thirteen years old. speaks French, Ter
man and Russian
GOVERNOR FORAKER has received s64.2S
from an accident instirance>company FOR the
loss Of his toe-nail.
GENERAL JOHN C. BLACK. ex-Commis-
sioner of Pensions, is to reside In ohlce3o
and open law office there
JOHN BAY LYNCH. the new fourth Adnitor
of the United States Treasury, is LOUISIANA
mulatto, but he was born free.
THE baby King of Spain is going to tbs
Paris Exposition in June. He will be the
youngest Monarch who ever visited that CITY.
THE Countess Crosy, of the old nobility OF
tbo rNoI Exth 10
troupe She will take it to Paris before the
exposition closes.
WILLIAM BLACK, the author of Macleod
of Dare" "Green Pastures and Piccadilly,'
and many other fine novels has larger III
come than any living English novelist.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER pays
tax upon an annual business OF more IMAM
$4,000, 600 and pays tax to the cify OF
Philadelphia of nearly $4,000 year upon
real estate.
PRESIDENT CARNoT asked to be presented
to Perry Belmont in Paris few days ago:
He remarked that Mr.. Belmont was one OF
the very few men in the world VINO had re-
fused the Legion of Honor
IT is not generally known that Chauncev
NJ, Depew had narrow escape from becon-
ing American Minister to Japan twenty three
years ago. He was offered the mission by
Secretary Seward in 1865 and debated ove.'
accepting it for whole month, when ne sene
in a refusal to the Secretary
RoBERr LOUIS STEVENSON, the author, is
completely in love with Hawaii. he has
taken house at Wiki, near Honolulu, and
is busy with his literary work. The house Is
beautifully situated on the seashore, sur
rounded by trees, and in a quiet spot where
few come to disturb the author.
HERR JOSEF RITTER Won WEINDL, this
great Austrian rifle inventor and manufac-
turer, gain !. his knowledge of firearms in
America and then from q small beginning
built up factory employing 5000 men. On
the announcement of his death stock in the
concern fell ten per cent showing the inpor-
| lance in which his personality was held.
| If there is one thing moro than another
| that Attorney General Miller regrets in leav-
| ing Indiana even for few years, 1t is his
| farm at Millersville, six miles from Indiana
| polls. to which, when his days work was
done, he was accustomed to drive to inspect
the growing crops the cattle and the horses,
and to enjoy sense OF freedom and proprle-
torship.