The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-09-26
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

LoRD TKssYsos walks three miles every
day.
KING ALFONSO, of Spain, weighs thirty
| I've pounds
| MRs. CLEVELAND writes a letter to her
mother every day in the year.
Macy ANDERSON Is responsible for the
popularity OF English shoes among Ameri
cans.
Mr. EDISON smokes a great deal: the more
work he does, the more cigars he con.
sumes
GEORGE w. WILLIAMS, the historian Of
sne coiored race in America, is living at
| Worcester.
! MARSHAL FIELD is rated the weaithiesi
man IN Chicago with a fortune amounting
10 t25, 900 900.
EX-SENATOR Plat, Of New York. .rs.che,
| his Office by $3.50 every morning and never
leaves before g.
JOAQUIN MILLER contemplates purchasing
yacht and leaving San Francisco for a
cruise In the South Seas.
| MMK. CARSoT wife OF the French Presi
dent, is OF medium height, with olive com
plerion and Roman features.
CHARLES +. FARRAR, son of Canon
Farrar, OF England, has come to this coun
Try to complete his education.
PRINCE BISMARCK now devotes q great Of
liiht Ihls favor
lte card game of Napoleon l.
SENATOR MORRILL,, of Vermont, isseventy.
nine years old. and has represented his Stat,
1t Washington thirty five years.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Civil Service Com.
missioner, Is getting comfortably near i'm
mortality. His handwriting has been dis
covered to be as bad as Horace Greeleys.
Ex-PREsIDEST CLEVELAND is still un
ieclded as TO his European trip Mrs Cleve
and Is said TO he anxious to 90 across ane
pend few months in the south Of France
MARK TWAIN asks from $500 TO a SiOW
Tor story or sketch and he gets what he
,sks. Frank Stockton's price for 1000 word,
$3.50. T. B. Aldrich charges $500 for "A few
verses
SIR WILLIAM McGREcoE. Governor Of
Sew Zealand has recently made the ascen,
u Mount Victoria, IL, l2l feet high, the high
,st peak Of the Owen Stanley range. New
Zealand.
Miss HELEN GOULD. daughter of jay
Gould, is said to have always believed shs
had mission to teach and even now in.
itructs four music pupils members of her
church, at her home
WILKIE COLLINS. the novelist, is short and
ielicate looking, with very small hands and
'eet and a cheerful face. His luxuriant hsi,
md board are snowy white, and he habitually
wears spectacles. He is an invetoratt
moker.
AMONG the distinguished octogenarian,
Who make a practice OF carly rising NAV be
iamed Cardinal Newman. He is very feeble
nut still receives visitors, and always treats
Americans with especial cordially and
courtesy.
WILLIAM +. HENLEY. who has won recoy-
ntion as poet was laborer of dissipated
iabits when an accident that crushed both of
his legs laid him up at hospital, where he
.ame under the influence Of Robert Louis
Stevenson.
COUNT voN MoLTKE has been appointed
Honorary Colonel of the Seventy first Aus
;rian Infantry Regiment. IL anything can
prove that 1866 and Sadowa are extinguished
the memory of Austria this appointment,
oy which the Austrian army salutes its con.
lueror as a comrade, must do SO.
WHEN Mr. Andrew Clarke entered Lon.
Ion Hospital as an assistant he was in poor
lealth. Poor Scotch beggarn said one O.
ihe faculty. let him have a place: he can.
1ot possibly live more than six months" He
Is now, after these many years of eminent
icrvice, Sir Andrew Clarke, perhaps the most
famous physician in England.