Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-02-22
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

BISMARCK il threatened with paralysis !
GEORGE GOULD is very fond OF bicycle
riding.
GEoGE W. CABLE, the novelist, has nd
children
CARDINAL NEWMAN plays the violin sx!
Quisitsly.
JOAQUIN MILLER's real name is CincinnA1
ties HIner
ADMIRAL DAVID PORTER is writing anI
other novel
GENERAL HARRISON always begins the
day with family prayers.
UNITED STATES SENATOR QUAY has been
On fishing trip in Florida
PRINCE ALBERT NICToE Of Wales In 70
visit the Car OF Russia in the spring. .
REPRESENTATIVE CANNON, OF Illinois, IL
the greatest letter writer in Congress.
QUEEN VICTORIA has just celebrated tbs
forty-nInth anniversary Of her wedding
JAY GoULD's appearance has greatly
changed OF late, and he IS becoming rapidly
old and Infirm-
JOHN BRIGHr. who is gradually recovering
from a serious illness, has an inordinatS
passion for smoking.
JAMES G. BLAINE has secured the old
Seward house in Washington on n ten years
lease at $27OO rental
CHARLES b. HOLMES, Of Chicago, is be-
heved TO control more street car lines and
AIios than any Dody else.
ALTHOUGH worth $15,OOO,OOO. Phil
Armour, the Chicago pork packer, works az
his desk thirteen hours daily.
ALTHOUGH Mrs. Blaine has turned sixty in
years, she is remarkably well preserved and
does not look to be more than iOrty.
ERASTCS WIMAN, the Staten Island (N.Y.J
millionaire, Is said to own all the American
patents for the slot devices for nickeS
NJ. JACQUES, the unsuccessful candidate in
- IL
election expenses amounted to $780, 900.
SENATOR PALMER proves that a man and
q Senator may also have strange pStS By
keeping tame coon i'll his dining
DR.. MARY WALKER, the eccentric advOs
cate of the Bloomer COSTUME has gone into
journalism, and is officially connected with
the W ashlngt IN Post,
HAROLD MARSH SEwALL, our Consul.
General to Samoa, is a man about thirty
years of age, who was graduated at Harvard
and later at the Harvard Law School.
GHOOLY KHAN, the Persian Minister al
Washington, recently appeared at receP
ton wearing white cotton gloves with the
ends snugy confined TO his wrists by rubber
bands
JESSE d. ABRAMS, the pewly appointed
Comptroller of the Currency, is a native Of
Virginia, but for many years has lived 10
Washington, where for time he was nstruo.
tor in private educational institute.
SENATOR hENNA, OF w esq Virginia, 70
famed all through his State hunter and
sportsman He IS passiOnately fond of gum
ming and angling, and keeps an assortment
of all kinds OF sporting paraphernalia
PITCHER Stage, of Yale, will not play ball
next season unless the success of his college
depends upon his services as a twrler. II be
does not pitch he viii preach. In either case
his delivery will be an important factor.
THE new heir of the Austrian Emperor,
besides being a descendant of the CRsara
will be King of nine countries, wear eight.
cen titles as Duke, one Archduke, two az
Grand Duke, four as Margrave and so on to
the total number of tifty-four.
EX-PRESIDENT WOOLsEY, of Yale, al.
though nearly four score and ten years Of
age, makes trip to the New Haven Comm
Fostotfice daily, never varying a minute in
the time of his going and passing the City
Hall just as the clock strikes ..
AT recent state dinner at the White
House the Corean Charge d Afaires had no
lady to take in to dinner and formed lon6-
some ornament in a remote corner. He was
attlred glOomly in a dark green gown with
a fancy belt, and wore a horse hair hat q
good deal like fly trap