Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-06-27
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
BE Gar refuses to visit Berlin.

The Gar refuses to visit Berlin.
ADMIRAL PORTER is seventy-six years old
EDITOR MURAT HALsTEAD is in Germany.
MRS. CLEVELAND is learning to play the
violin.
HENRY CLEws, the Wall street broker; has
written a novel.
JEFFERSON DAVIS was eighty-one years
old June 8, 1889.
CYRUS W. FIELD began life as clerk in
New England store.
BRETE HARTE has taken up his permanent
residence in London.
LORD ZETLAND, the new Irish Viceroy, will
serve only one year.
1T is rumored that President Diaz will visit
the United States next fall.
CLARA BARTON, President of the Red Cross
Association, was born in Maine.
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, author of the Light
Df Asia" is coming to this country.
VIcE-PREsIDENT MORTON is becoming an
extensive property owner in Washington.
THE first of living Americans in the esti-
nation OF European nations is Buffalo Bill.
KATE CHASE SPRAGUE is writing a biog-
taphy of her father, the late Chief Justice
Chase.
KINGLAKE, the English historian who is
aow seventy-eight years old, is not in good
health.
JOSEPH PULITZER, owner of the New York
World, once acted as stoker on Mississippi
| Iteamboat.
EDISON, the electrical inventor, is said to
have amassed fortune Of 81, 900, 600 by his
| Inventions.
| JIM KEENE, the famous manipulator of
I mill
California town.
| HIS ROYAL HIGHNESs KING MALIEToA, of
Samoa, has developed an inordinate desire for
beer and pretzels.
JOHN DAVIS, the wholesale dry goods man,
s the richest man in Missouri his wealth
being estimated at $22, ,000, 900.
Hon: E. J. GAY, Of Louisiana, who died
the other day, was the richest man in the
South. He was worth SIC, 900, 000
EDISON says it cost him thirty-five cents a
mile to learn the game Of poker on train
from New York to Chicago not long ago.
HrPfoLYTE, the winner of the Haytian con
test is a most inveterate smoker, He is never
without strong, black cigar between his
bps.
youngest city executive in the country. His
hame is Stewart and he is but twenty-three
years old.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER Is
the only smooth-faced man in the Cabinet
and looks considerably younger than any
bsher of the eight.
GENERAL GREELY, of the Signal Service
Is afflicted with rheumatism in q mild form,
and g1imly refers to this addition to his out
ct for predicting weather changes
Rev. JOSEPH McADEN who died recently
In Brunswick County, Va, was the oldesi
Methodist minister in the South. He wa!
hinety-five years old, and had been in the
ministry seventy-five years.
EDWARD ]. PHELPS, ex-Minister to Eng
land, has written to the faculty Of the Yale
Law Schcol saying that he will be on hanG
at the opening of the college year to instruct
the classes in equity and evidence.
The grandmother of the Emperor Of Chins
is eighty-nine years old, blind, deaf and {
cripple, and the other day her loving
grandson presented her with 500 singing
birds, 200 silk dresses and 100 musical instru
ments.
| ADJUTANT-GENERALH HASTINGS, of Penn
sylvania, who is in command at Johnstown
Is one of the handsomest men in the Keyston
State. He is over six feet in height, sym
metrically built, blonde in complexion, witt
moustache and imperial He is soldie
every inch. His home in Benefonte.