Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-02-15
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

KING JA-JA, of West Africa, is fifty-two.
OsMAN D1GSA means Osman the bearded.
LADY BRAssY's posthumous work is just
out.
THE Princess of Wales is forty-five years
old.
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 s., 100000 apiece.
SENATOR WoLCoTT will 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 W ales 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
Gle daughters, between the ages of eight and
fifteen.
SENATOR MORRILL,, of Vermont, entered
the House of Representatives thirty -four
years ago.
MRS. NELLIE GRANT SARToR1s has ar
rived in New Y ork from England, on a visit
to her mother
GENERAL HARRISON is said to be 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 III
her eighty fifth year.
GIOVANNI P. MoRosINI, Jay Goulds conf
dan iolp hos Of f1N70
hundred watches worth about $780, 900.
STRAWBERRIES that cost So dozen were
served at dinner given by Senator Stan
ford at Washington the other evening.
MARIE FRANCES NORTON, sister of
Charles j. Guiteau, 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-SECRETARY 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 q
fve-acre orange grove and a cosey six-room
house.
DURING his forty-three years of orphanage
work George Muller, of Bristol, England has
received nearly $S,C0O,O00 in voluntary con-
CrlDutlOnS.
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.
THE Gar of Russia is said to be an enor-
NOUS eater, and to consider three pounds of
steak and two quarts of champagne as only
a very light lunch.
JOHN WANAMAKER's life is insured for a
round million of dollars, which a statisti-
n HnC of fsnfka Of To-,
every pound of his flesh.
SIR MORELL MACKENZIE is quoted as hay-
ing lost caste in medical circles all over Eu-
rope, many openly asserting that his pub
llshed book was not only unErofessional, but
an advertisement.
The famous rife shot, Dr. Carver. said, in
q recent interview, that he began killing
blsons for the market in 1861, and during
1874 his record was $500 head, the greatest
number be ever killed in one year.
THE new Governor of Kansas, Lyman A.
Humphrey. was born in Stark County Ohio
July Is, 1914. He enlisted in the SEVENTH
sixth Ohio Infantry when II. After the war
he became an editor and finally lawyer.
IN an interview recently, General Boulanger
said: II grant interviews personally to about
$50 persons day. This morning alone
spoke to LAP. That is without counting the
delegations which set foot in this room
They number from 500 to 10O0 persons a day.
see them In groups of about fifty at time"
For the supper to be served at the inaugu.
ration ball in Washington there will be pro-
vida6 90 600 raw 20 JUI StowoO OSS-