The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-02-14
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

KING JA-JA, Of West Africa, is flfty-two.
OsMAs DIGyA means Osman the bearded.
LADY BRAssYs posthumous work IL just
out
THE Princess of Wales is forty-ive years
odd.
SErAToR-ELEcT A HIGGINS, Of Delaware,
is bachelor.
CLAUS SPREcKLEs, the sugar king, IL
worth 900, 000, GOO.
THE Pope is said to have made seventy Sir
speeches in one week.
JAPANESE MINISTER KUKI owns the most
gorgeous equipage in Washington.
Two Chicago maidens, the Misses Armour,
have something like 49, 0,U0l apiece.
SENATOR WoLcoTT will be the youngest
man in the next United States Senate.
THE Shah of Persia is to make a tour OF
Europe, beginning at st. Petersburg III
April
THE Prince of W ales has laid more corner.
stones for public buildings than any man
living.
Two sons remain of the band of twenty
children who once called John Brown
father.
Hon. LEVI P. MORTON has five pretty lit.
tie daughters, between the ages Of eight am
fifteen.
pENhlch MOhHlIL. W tItiIIls,
the House OF Representatives thirty-fosr
years ago
Mrs. NELLIE GRANT sAgro2-s hs -
rived IN New York from EnGizzi, o. Tlszi
to her mother.
GENERAL HARRISON s sid 70 be sIa1r.issi.
In stature Of any Dsa sF=- cs-Js4 10 lid
Presidential chair.
MRS. PoLE, E1o wzs -z1rHH K lts
White Rousa oFs- toCs! years .Ez- l. 1s.v n
ber eighty afth year.
GIOVANNI P. 1fJs5s-y1, TEF Gs-.I,lis's i:,r,tt
Dental partos-, las css-a.s-alzu = ever f7s
hundred watches w1rzE s1,g-l saii-lillG
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MARIE FRANCES NoEToS, : s5I1zr &c
Charles ]. Guitsau, has published loFz-
mainly devoted 10 q defence OF h.- rro-Es-.
SENATOR RANSOM has Represented North
Carolina at Washington Tor many years,
but has never yet taken his wits there to
live.
Ex-SEcRETARY CT the Navy Robson is
aging rapidly, his hair being snow white,
and his once round and rosy cheeks pale and
thin.
MISS ROSE CLEVELAND Is now in her win
ter home at Naples, Fla, where she has
fve-acre orange grove and q cosey six-room
| house.
DURING his forty three years of orphanaga
work George Muller, of Bristol, England, has
received nearly $500, 600 in voluntary con-
| tributions
TIE ruler of China, the dowager Empress,
| has ordered for the benefit of "the son OF
heaven" that Shakespeare shall be translated
into Chinese
THE Gar OF Russia is said to be an enorl
| nous eater, and 10 consider three pounds OF
steak and two quarts of champagne as only
a very light lunch.
| JOHN WANAMAKERs life is insured for q
round million of dollars, which statisti
clan computes is at the rate of $500 for
every pound of his flesh.
| SIR MoRELL MACKENZIE is quoted as hav-
ing lost caste in medical circles all over Eu-
rope, many openly asserting that his pub
hshed book was not only unprofessional, but
an advertisement.
THE famous rife shot, DR.. Carver, said, in
q recent interview, that he began killing
bisons for the market in 1857, and during
1874 his record was $500 head, the greatest
number he ever killed in one year.
THE new Governor of Kansas, Lyman A.
Humphrey, was born in Stark County, Ohio,
July 25, 1874. He enlisted in the Seventy
sixth Ohio Infantry when II. After the war
be became an editor and finally lawyer.
INan interview recently, General Boulanger
said: II grant interviews personally to about
ESQ persons day. This morning alone 1
spoke to 142. That is without counting tho
delegations which set foot in this room.
They number from 500 to 1900 persons day
see them in grouus of ahout fiftv at time u