Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-02-22
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

BISMARCK is threatened with paralysis
GEORGE GOULD is very fond of bicycle
riding,
GEoGE W. CABLE, the novelist, has six
CARDINAL NEWMAN plays the violin ex-
quiSitely.
JOAQUIN MILLER's real name is Cincinna-
ADMIRAL DAVID PORTER is writing an.
other novel.
GENERAL HARRISON always begins the
day with family prayers.
UNITED STATES SENATOR QUAY has been
on fishing trip in Florida.
PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR of Wales is to
visit the Car of Russia in the spring
REPRESENTATIVE CANNON, of Illinois, is
tne greatest letter writer in Congress.
QUEEN VICTORIA has Just celebrated the
1orty-ninth anniversary of her wedding.
JAY GoULD's appearance has greatly
changed of late, and he is becoming rapidly
old and infirm.
JOHN BRIGHT, who is gradually recovering
from serious illness, has an inordinate
passion for smoking.
JAMES g. BLAINE has secured the old
Seward house in Washington OH a ten years.
lease at S21O0 rental.
CHARLES B. HOLMES, of Chicago, is be.
heVed to control more street car lines and
miles than anybody else.
ALTHOUGH worth S1500O,0O0, Phil
Armour, the Chicago pork packer, works at
his desk thirteen hours daily.
ALTHOUGH Mrs. Blaine has turned sixty in
years, she is remarkably well preserved and
does not look to be more than forty.
ERASTUs WIMAN, the Staten Island tN.Y.)
mlihonalre, Is said to own all the American
patents for the slot devices for nickels.
M JACQUES, the unsuccessful candidate in
farls against Boulanger, estimates that his
election expenses amounted to 100000.
SENATOR PALMER proves that a man and
a Senator may also have strange pets by
keeping tame coon in his dining room.
DR.. MARY WALKER, the eccentric advo-
cate OF the Bloomer costume, has gone into
journalism, and is officially connected with
the Washington Post.
HAROLD MARSH SEwALL, our Consul
General to Samoa, is a man about thirty
years of age, who was graduated at Harvard
and later at the Harvard Law School,
GHooLY KHAN, the Persian Minister at
Washington, recently appeared at a recep-
ton wearing white cotton gloves with the
ends snugy confined to his wrists by rubber
bands.
JESSE D. ABRAMS the pewly appointed
Comptroller Of the Currency, is native of
Virginia, but for many years has lived in
Washington where for time he was instruc-
tor in private educational institute.
SENATOR KENNA, of West Virginia, is
famed all through his State as hunter and
sportsman. He is passionately fond of gun
ming and angling, and keeps an assortment
OF all Kinds OF sporting paraphernalia.
PITCHER Stage, of Yale, will not play ball
next season unless the success of his college
depends upon his services as a twirler If he
does not pitch he will preach. In either case
his delivery will be an important factor.
TIE new heir of the Austrian Emperor.
seslies being descendant of the Caesars,
Will be King of nine countries wear eight
cen titles as Duke, one as Archduke, two as
Grand Duke, four as Margrave and SO on to
the total number of fifty-four.
Ex-PREsIDENT WooLsEY, of Yale, al
though nearly four score and ten years of
age, makes trip to the New Haven (Conn.)
rostolllce daily, never varying minute in
tne time OF his going and passing the City
Hall just as the clock strikes 8.
AT recent state dinner at the White
House the Corean Charge d'Atfaires had no
lady 10 take in to dinner and formed a lone
some ornament in a remote corner. He was
attired gloomily In dark-green gown with
fancy belt, and wore a horsehair hat a
GOOD deal like a fy-trap.
Is 1t right to license a man to sell that
which will make a man drunk and then
punish the man for being drunkl