Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-16
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
govt threatens Queen Victoria

GoUT threatens Queen Victoria
DR.. TALMAGE receives 500 lecture.
lola is the best paid novelist in France.
THE King Of Sweden has written play.
MRS. BENJAMIN HARRISON weighs 157
pounds.
GEORGE NJ PULLMAN is said to be worth
$50. coo, 600.
SIR G. B. AIRY, the noted astronomer is
eighty-seyen.
THE Earl of Dudley lost $50 600 at cards in
Paris recently.
POSTMAsTER-GESERAL WANAMAKER'S life
is insured for 81, 10000.
JOHN G. WHITTIER. the poet, is roaming
through the White Mountains
BABY MCKEE, the Presidents grandchild,
tips the beam at nineteen pounds
THE King of Italy has been limited by his
physicians to ten cigarettes day.
KING KALAKAUA has annual income of
SO, 0O0 year, but he is continually hard up.
SENATOR BECK, of Kentucky, is fond of
hunting, and bags good deal "a game in the
course OF year.
TIE Prince of Wales is one of the best in
formed men in England. He rarely opens
book, but is always conversing with cul-
tured people.
KING MENILEK, the new ruler of Abys-
sinia, is a fierce looking man, dark, tall, thin
and active, with piercing black eyes and
long dark beard.
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw never writes a
speech but usually spends few moments in
rejecting on his subject, jotting down few
headings in the process.
PROFESSOR TODD, of Amherst College is
to lead the Government expedition to South
western Africa to observe the total eclipse OF
the on December %.
1T is proposed in Fremont, Ohio, to estab-
lish a school in honor of the late Mrs HAYES
fa of ha jS 70
be given the name Lucy Webb Hayes Semi
nary"
CONGRESSMAN SUNSET" Cox is over
sixty years of age, although his wit and vi
vacity keep him young. His hair has be-
come thin and gray, but his eyes are as
bright ever.
The Earl of Fife and the Princess Louise
who were recently married are third cousins
George III Their wedding presents were
valued at 81, 100000.
PRESIDENT HARRISON, Secretary of the
Treasury Window and Cardinal Gibbons
were the most prominent guests at the recent
dinner given at Deer Park, Md, by ex-Uni-
ted States Senator Davis, of West Vir-
ginia.
THOMAS A EDISON has sailed for Europe for
the purpose # getting a view of the Paris
Exposition, and of the way in which his var
iOuS in entiOnS are displayed there. He Is
accompanied by his wife, who is the daugh-
ter of another inventor.
SENATOR EUSTIS of Louisiana, is so fond
of Washin rton that he spends most of his
time there during his Congressional vacations.
He is to be seen on Pennsylvania avenue,
attired in flannel alpaca, straw hat and
russell leather shoes. He is very fond of
baseball
PRESIDENT PATTON and ex-President Nc
Gosh, of Princeton are to deliver addresses at
Harr1sville, in Bucks County, Penn, Septem-
Der 5, in conmemoration of the founding of
the Log College" there in 1926, which was the
beginning of the educational work of the
Presbyterian Church in this country.
Don JOSE ZORRILLA, who was recently
crowned poet laureate of Spain, is short,
slender old man, seventy-two years of age.
He has fine head, with white hair brushed
back from the forehead. His eyes are large
and dreamy, and his mouth is handsome
His moustache and goatee give him military
appearance
PRESIDENT HARRISON has a very peculiar
complexion. It utterly defies the efforts Of
the to burn it, He spent a good deal of
time in the open air at Deer Park and
paid no attention to shading his face from the
SUMS rays. In spite of this his complexion
retained its peculiar pallor, and even the end
Of his nose showed no tinge of brown.