Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-02-15
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

KING JA-JA, Of West Africa, is fifty-two. (
OaMAN DIGNA means Osman the bearded.
LADY BRAssY's posthumous work is just
out.
TIE Princess Of Wales is forty-five years
nld
SENAToR-ELECT A. HIGGINS, Of Delaware,
is bachelor.
CLAUS SPREcKLEs, the sugar king, Is
worth $50 100000.
THE Pope is said to have made seventy six
speeches IN one week.
JAPANESE MINISTER KUKI owns the most
gorgeous equipage in Washington.
Two Chicago maidens, the Misses Armour,
have something like S5,G00,O0O apiece
SENATOR WoLCoTT VIII be the youngest
man in the next United States Senate.
THE Shah of Persia is to make a tour of
Europe, beginning at st. Petersburg in
April.
The Prince of Wales has laid more corner
stones for public buildings than any man
living.
Two sons remain of the band Of twenty
children who once called John Brown
father.
Hon. LEVI P. MORTON has five pretty lit
Tie daughters, between the ages of eight and
fifteen.
SENATOR MORRILL,, of Vermont, entered
the House of Representatives thirty-four
years ago.
MRS NELLIE GRANT sARTon1s has ar
rived IN New York from England, on visit
TO her mother.
GENERAL HARRISON is said to he shortest
IN stature OF any man ever called to the
Presidential chair,
Mrs. Polk, who was mistress of the
White House over forty years ago, is now in
der eighty fifth year.
GIOVANNI I. MoRosINI, Jay Gould's conf
DENTAL partner, has a collection of over five
hundred watches worth about $4,000.
STRAWBERRIES that cost So a dozen were
served az dinner given by Senstor STAN
tord at Washington the other evening
MARIE FRANCES NORTON, a sister of
Charles j. GuitoRu, has published a novel
mainly devoted to defence Of her brother.
SENATOR RANSOM has represented North
Carolina at Washington for many years,
but has never yet taken his wife there to
live.
Ex-SEcRErARY of the Navy Robson is
aging rapidly, his hair being snow white,
and his once round and rosy cheeks pale and
thin.
MISS ROSE CLEVELAND is now in her win
ter home at Naples, Fla, where she has
hve-acre orange grove and cosey six-room
house.
DURING his forty-three years of orphanase
work George Muller, of Bristol England. has
reeeived nearly SS,U00, coo in voluntary CON
trtbutions.
The ruler of China, the dowager Empress,
has ordered for the benefit of 1.-THE son OF
heaVen' that Shakespeare shall be translated
into Chinese
TIE Gar of Russia is said to be an enor.
mOll6 eater and n "a
steak and two quarts of champagne as ouly
very light lunch.
JOHN WANAMAKER'S life is insured for a
round million of dollars, which a statisti
clan computes is at the rate of 5000 for
every pound OF his flesh.
SIR MoRRLL MACKENZIE is quoted as hav-.
ing lost caste in medical circles all over Eu-
rope, many openly asserting that his pub
hshed book was not only unprofessional, but
an advertisement.
THE famous rifle-shot DR.. Carver, said. in
a recent interview, that he began killing
hisons for the market in 1851 and during
1874 his record was $500 head, the greatest
number he ever killed in one year.
THE new Governor of Kansas, Lyman A.
Humphrey, was born in Stark County. Ohio.
July 20, lS44. He enlisted In the Seventy.
sixth Ohio Infantry when II. After the war
he became an editor and finally lawyer
IN an interview recently, General Boulanger
said: u grant interviews personally TO about
sSO persons day. This morning alone
spoke to l42. That is without counting the
delegations which set foot in this room.
They number from 800 to 1000 persons day.
see them in groups of about fifty at a time"
GEORGE KEENAN,, the journalizt and
author, lives in a quaint and modest little
house in Washington. He Is forty-three
years old, and has long, thin face; his
mouth is concealed by heavy moustache,
his eyes are large and dark, and his figure Is
spare, Mr.. Kennan keeps himself in condi-
ton by daily spin Of ten miles on his
bicycle.