Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-11-22
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

PRESIDENT HIPPOLYTE, of Hayti, is a
Baptist
PRESIDENT HARRISON rarely attends the
theatres.
SECRETARY OF WAR PROCTOR is called the
'silent man" in Washington.
CARDINAL NEWMAN, who is in his eightieth
year. is the oldest living Cardinal.
QUEEN VICTORIA went to church the other
Sunday for the first time in year.
M. constants, who defeated BOulanger, is
said to be the coming man in French poll
tics.
PROFESSOR HUXLEY says his closest COM
panion for the last fifty years has been dys-
pepsia.
The Pope has made Rev Dr. Grace late
Bishop of st. Paul. Mimi, a titular arch
bishop.
ADMIRAL KIMBERLY, in command of our
Pacific squadron has been in the service for
+Orty years.
Mrs MARY F. SHENDLEY, of London, has
presented Pittsburg, Penn, with 300 acres of
land for park.
STURGEON, the great Baptist preacher,
generally devotes thirty minutes to the prepa-
ration of a sermon.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER has
Starteda Bible class in the Church of the
Covenant in Washington.
The Emperor William, of Germany, re-
Gently discharged an attendant for thu Of
Tense of reading French novel.
MISS WINNIE DAVIS, daughter of Jeffer-
son Davis, in company with Mrs. Joseph
Pulitzer, has sailed from New York for
Havre
PRINCE BISMARCK recently gave the fol-
lowing advice to his son: BE moderate in
work, moderate in eating, and also moderate
in drinking"
JOHN FIELD, the new postmaster at Phila-
delphla, was born in Derry County, Ireland,
ffty-five years ago, and came to America at
the age of fourteen.
TENNYsON selects the Gays when the ele-
mentS are at their worst for his tramps over
the downs on the Isle of Wight on which his
isolated country house is located.
I. V. POwDERLY, the chief of the Knights
or Labor, possesses a most remarkable
memory for names and faces. Although he
meets thousands of people every year he never
forgets them.
KARL FALKENsTEIN, the inventor of the
famous smOkeless powder, was a chemist in
Vienna only three years ago His invention
was scOrnfully rejected by TIE Austrian
Government
BARON ALFRED the present head Of the
mouse OF Rothschild, is pudgy, bald-headed
and s1de-whlskered. His years are nine and
forty, and he lives in London, where he gives
sumptuous entertainments.
CARDINAL GIBBONS not only favors cap
ltal punishment but thinks there is entirely
too much lenlency in the treatment of muir
derers, altogether too much delay between
the sentence and its execution.
PRESIDENT CARNoT and United States Min
lster Reid have become warm friends in
Paris. 1t IS rumOred that the former has
promised to visit this country under the
guidance of Mr.. Reid at some future time.
GENERAL BOOTH, in opening a new sal
vation hall in London, defed any one to point
)ut any authorized doing of the salvation
army not justified from the Bible. They had
zoo societies and 5000 officers, for the most
part self-suppOrted, and the annual income
not less than 81, 900 900.
GEORGE VANDERBILT who is about to
ouild the splendid country seat at Asheville
Y. c., is the youngest son of the late William
H. Vanderbilt. He is bachelor and is now
about twenty years old; is tall and
slight in figure and of dark complexion, hair
md eyes. He>cares nothing for society, and
most happy when in his library with his
books. His legacy from his father was
$1,000, 600, together with library and many
If the pictures in the Wand erbilt gallery.