The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-03-21
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
MRS. HARRISON is fifty-seven,
THE Gar is expected at Berlin.

MRS HARRISON is fifty-seven,
THE Car is expected at Berlin.
"OUIDA'sn first novel was sold for $3.50.
THE Pope has just celebrated his seventy
ninth birthday.
QUEEN VICTORIA has gone on pleasure
tour to Biarritz.
QUEEN PA, of Portugal, is very anxious
to come to this country.
THE only son of the Secretary of Agricul.
ture is named Blaine Rusk.
DAvITT, the Irish patriot, has spent nine
years of his life in prison for political
offences
GROVER CLEVELAND was the only Presi-
dent who, during his term of office, wore a
moustache.
Mrs. JOHN WANAMAKER was born a
Brown. She is a daughter of her husbands
first partner.
THE ex-Secretary of War and Mrs. Endi-
colt, will remain at Washington until April,
and then go to England
THE country has now two ex-Presidents,
Hayes and Cleveland, and one ex-Vice-
President, Hannibal Hamlin.
The Austrian Emperor, Francis Joseph,
is said to be able to get through prodigious
amount Of work without exhaustion.
GOVERNOR BURLEIGH is reported to have
broken the Maine record by mastering and
signing seventy -eight bills in one day.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL will devote the
remainder of his life to travel and reading.
He says that his literary work is all done
COLONEL NORTH, the Nitrate King. gave q
waiter at London hotel who had served
him check for $4,000 before leaving Eng
land.
MRS. INGALLS,, wife of the Kansas Senator,
is considered handsome woman, and her
daughter is one of the most charming girls
at Washington.
JUDGE HENRY s. LONG, the last survivor
Of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Conven
ton of 1887, died at Lancaster few days
ago, aged eighty-five
GEORGE BANCROFT. the historian, is the
only surviving member of the class of 1917
at Harvard, and the oldest living graduate
in college seniority.
KING OTTo of Bavaria, has been attacked
BY q curious malady, his hair having turned
white in single night, while all his physical
power has entirely left him.
Miss MINNIE WANAMAKER, the pretty,
dark eyed daughter of Postmaster General
Wanamaker, has had her life-sized portrai,
painted by NJ. Brozik, of Paris
MRS MAcKAY's dinners in London have
been the most popular events of the season.
The wife of the bonanza Crusus has won hel
way into the most exclusive socie ETY. of Eng
land.
TaE quaint little ladies of the Corean lega
ton in Washington are quite pretty and ART
very much admired. Mrs. Ye is twenty -si1
years old and Mrs. Ye Sang Jay only twenty
They are no taller than children of ten years
and twice as cute in looks and manners.
VIsCoUNT VAUDEVILLE, eldest son OF th,
Duke of Manchester, has been declared 9
bankrupt His liabilities are officially place.
at s60O.00 1t is said that he has been livinf
beyond his means and has lost money by
betting. Viscount Vaudeville in 1915 mar
ried Miss Consuelo Yznaga, of the Unitet
| States
ONE of the central figures in Administra
ton circles during the next four years vii
be Mrs. j. R. Mckee, the daughter OF Pres
dent Harrison Mrs. Mckee is of medium
height and has pleasant, intelligent face
She is far more clever than most socia
women and has mind and will distinctly
| her own.
SIDNEY BARTLETT, the oldest member o
the Massachusetts, Bar, died recently at Bos
ton from congestion Of the lungs. He wa
away that generation of lawyers whose fam
was continental He was a contemporar,
and worthy rival of Daniel Webster ant
Rufus Choate.
Hon. PERRY BELMONT our late Minister t.
Spain, was cheered the other day by ,
Madrid crowd. At one of the Spanish mill
tary reviews an artillery man was throw
down and injured by one of the gun cal
riages. This happened just in front of MI
Belmont, who Immediately alighted from hi
carriage and ordered the wounded man to
put in il and driven to the hospital som
miles away The crowd cheered and tn
commander-in-chief rode MP to Mr.. Beiron
and thanked him.