Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-12-20
PROMINENT PEOPLE.


Ex-NI.sc: MILAN of Servia will make his
home III Paris
SENATOR PIERCE. of North Dakota, is the
author OF several novels.
HE London Times suggests Stanley for
Governor Of East Africa
SECRETARY RUSK is making collection of
orchids and chrysanthemums.
GENERAL BOULANGER is doing very we'll
He Is supported by his admirers.
PRESIDENT HARRISON is an expert walker,
and likes tramp of several miles.
THE letter carriers monument to S. S. Cox
will probably be erected in Washington.
The Lord Mayor of London was for some
part OF his early career operate singer.
EVEN the Car OF Russia suffers with in
fuenza, which is epidemic in ST. Petersburg.
EN-PRESIDEET CLEVELAND says our ex-
Presidents should earn their own living like
other people.
SIR MORELL MACKENZIE, the English doc
tor * seriously considering the project of an
American tour.
EX-PENsIoN COMMISSIONER TANNER and
w. h. Dudley have formed business part
nership i'll Washington.
LORD SALISBURY the British Premier has
the proud distinction among Englishmen of
wearing the biggest hat
CASTELAR,, the Spanish statesman, says
that another half century will wind up the
mOnarchial business i'll Europe.
HISTORIAN BANCROFT takes a long walk
every peasant afternoon. often with vol
unle OF Shakespeare III his hand.
Nh CAMPBELL, GOvernOr-elect of Ohio, is
a knight Templar Knight of Pythias and
an Elk. lie is also q Presbyterian
TIE ia6e Father Damien, who died i'll the
leper settlement at MOlOkai. Sandwich ISL
ands. has been succeeded by his brother.
ST. JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE, the British Min
lister at Washington is devOting a good deal
of time to the study of American literature.
HENRY c. KELSEY, the present Secretary
Of State OF New Jersey. was the editor Of a
small country newspaper twenty years ago.
JULES VERHES real family name is Olche-
wiz. The novelist is now sixty-eight years
Did. and engaged III the production OF one OF
his greatest works
THE exceptional honor Of the crown and
and brilliants pOurie meriJe has been con-
ferred upon Count Won MOltHe by the En-
perOr Of Germany.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. the nov elist
reports himself i'll good health and spirits
and disposed to spend vet another winter
mol2 The islands OF the South Pacific.
CHARLES COLBI. the new President of the
Canadian Privy Council. was born in the
United States. He is the first native OF this
COUNTRY who ever entered a Dominion Cab
met.
NJ. GLADSTONE has been speaking in Eng
land Tor fifty years. and yet people are SO
anxious to hear him that they would at any
time i'll large hall if the seats cost ten
dollar
SPURGEON, the great London preacher
says that the perfect members of his flock
give hun more trouble than his sinners He
now gives notice that his fold is for black
SheHO only.
MARX TWAIN passes a great part Of his
time in MS library, where he sits in a COM
Portable armchair, his feet tilted 10 on the
window-sill and chick halo of tobacco
smoke encircling his forehead.
PHYSICALLY. Speaker Reed is the largest
man in the House. He weighs as much as
Ex-President Cleveland and is taller He is
an accomplished French scholar and reads
every new book published in Paris.
The oldest officer in the United States
Navy is Commodore Henry Bruce, now on
the retired list and living in Boston. Hewas
born on February - 1879. and was appoint
ed Inidshipman in the Navy from MasSa-
cauSettS on November 9, 1913.
CITIZEN GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN when in
Boston recently was surrounded by a crowd
III ho5el corridor when he offered TO bet
thac ha vas the biggest fool in America.
Nobody accepted the wager at first but
finally = man came forward and said: IN
lake yo1r be- stranger, provided YOU are not
George Francis Train"