Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-06-20
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

TIE King Of Italy is total abstainer.
WANAMAKER's first salary was s1.25 a
week.
THE Russian Car is in constant fear Of
ieath.
QUEEN VICTORIA has reigned fifty-two
| Fears.
UNITED STATES MINISTER EGAN has sailed
| for Chill.
THE Hotchkiss gun-maker left fortune of
! BIZ, 100000
| WALT WHITMAN, the poet, has attained
ihe age Of seventy.
WHILE Prince Bismarck was at college he
ought twenty-eight duels.
JOHN BRIGHT's first public speaking was
| or the cause of temperance.
Rosa BoNHEUR still vigorously wields the
brush at nearly seventy years.
MINISTER LINCOLN was given special
rain from Liverpool to London.
SENATOR ALLISON is soon to be married to
charming young lady of Washington.
WHITELAw REID our Minister to France
legan life as newspaper correspondent at
i've dollars week.
SECRETARY NOBLE has accepted the resig-
lation of Indian Commissioner Oberly, to
axe effect on July1.
GENERAL WEAVER, of Iowa, once the
eading Greenbacker of the West, has opened
l law office in Oklahoma.
IT is sad to learn that the Sandwich King,
&alakau, is so bad off that he can't borrow
| 80, 600 for trip to Europe.
KING TAMASEE, of Samoa, enjoys the mu-
iifcentroyal salary of $20a week. But then
he has no tailor's bills topay.
THE Pope recently tainted in his chair dur.
ng meeting of the Consistory, and his
,ealth is said to be seriously affected.
AMELIE RIyEs-CHANLER, the author of the
Quick or the Dead, and Louise Michel, the
Nlhilist, have struck up friendship in Paris
SECRETARY WINDoMi is said to work harder
han any other man in Washington He is at
ais desk day and night and indulges in no
Known recreation.
GLADSTONE at the age Of eighty is said to
be good for tramp Of twenty miles, And
why not? At the same age Aaron Burr
could outwalk any youngster in New York
THE monument in honor of Inventor John
Ericsson, for which the sum of $12, GOO was
appropriated by the New York State Legis-
ature, is to be set up in Central Park, New
York. ..-
MARSHALL FIELD, the Chicago millionaire
urygoods merchant, employs man at a reg
dlar salary to see that his charities are
worthily bestowed. He spends $4,000 a
year in charity.
HADJI HAssEIN KHoULI KHAN, Persian
Minister, says that the reason the Shah of
Persia does not extend his present trip to this
country is that there is no one here of equal
rank to receive him.
Hon. WILLIAM c. ENDIcoTT, ex-Secretary
Of War, and Mr.. Sigourney Butler, ex.
Controller of the Currency, have formed
partnership for the practice of law, and will
open an Office in Boston.
AMAsA SPRAGUE, elder brother of ex.
Governor William Sprague, who has ac-
cepted an election to the office of Sheriff of
Kent County, R. Ian office worth $500 or
S40O year-was once the owner of
H0,000,06O.
Mrs. CLEvELAND's mother, Mrs Perrine,
has returned to Buffalo. She and her hus-
band went as far West as Nebraska on their
wedding trip. Mr.. Perrine has resumed
his duties as Secretary of the Buffalo Gene.
terry Association.
PRESIDENT HARRISON devotes about an
hour day to newspapers. He reads the ed.
torial comments cut out for him by Private
Secretary Halford, spends few moments on
ihe telegraphic news and always looks over
;hs baseball scores