Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-11-08
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

WALT WHITMAN, the poet is reduced to
wheel chair.
PRINCE BISMARCK has been ordered to take
O physical and mental rest.
MRS FRANK LESLIE wears black leather
boots with tips and laces of silver.
PRESIDENT CARNoT, of France, is making
arrangements for a visit to Algeria.
LORD TENNYsON is hard at work on a new
$1,000 poem for one of the English maya
zines.
THE King of Bavaria receives an income
of ST. coo, 600 year from the profits of a
brewery.
LAFCADIo HEARN, the brilliant New Or
leans writer, has Greek mother and Brit
ISL father.
THE new crown being made for the EN-
press of Germany will contain 1900 diamonds
and eleven large pearls.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to have real estate
investments i'll New York city which pay
her handsome income.
THE mother of Bayard Taylor recently
celebrated her eig:htieth birthday. She lives
at Kenneth Square, Penn.
SIR FREDERICK YOUNG, the English scien-
fist, at the age of seventy, has just finished
trip of 16, 900 miles through Africa.
A MARBLE statue of the Princess of Wales,
by French sculptor, is to be executed for
e. ection at Copenhagen, Denmark
HE 6nOrCS winch are making TO ul0uCo
Oliver Wendell Holmes to write auto
biography are not likely to meet with
cess.
HISTORIAN BANCROFT says that he feels as
well as he diG sixty years ago. Horseback
riding, he asserts, is the best elixir of
youth.
SECRETARY BALFoUR, 1.-THE best hated
man in England" is fOrty-one years old
and does not look like a strong man either
mentally or physically,
The Sultan of Turkey has lost great deal
of flesh of late and begins to look like an
old man His physicians have ordered him
to drink plenty Of wine.
GENERAL STUART VAN VLIET is the old
est General of the retired list in the United
States Army He is seventy-four years
old and served fifty-twc years.
WILLIAM O'BRIEN, the Irish patriot. is
a slim, weakly-built, cOnsumptive-looking
man of four and thirty, with a palid intel
lectual face and a fair chin-beard.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS is determined
looking ncentrated-mannered, polished
spoken man, with a clean shaven upper lip
and iron gray side whisker of the prOverbial
English barrister He is six and sixty less
four months.
ACTING REAR-AD MIRAL JOHN G.WALKER,
who has Just been ordered to command the
Squadron of EvOlutiOns. with the new cruiser
Chicago as his flagship, is man OF striking
with broad shoulders and erect form, and
wears long side whiskers
BRET HARTE, who has a great social as
we'll as literary popularity in England, is now
a handsome ruddy, white-haired man, and
owes his popularity in measure to his mas
terry Of Western slang; and that eloquence of
restitution of the preper phrase, his pathetic,
uneducated. humOristic slang.
DR. TALMAGE is a tall, acrobatic-
manered man of lanky build, with paiG
face framed in well-trimmed side-whiskers.
He sermonizes after a delightfully."- original
fashion, and though his utJerance is a trif1e
disjointed, he is an excellent preacher. He
is also seven and fifty, and he is getting BALI
on ton.
THE new United States cruiser, which viii
be constructed at the Brooklyn Navy y ard
will be limited in COST to 81. 100 900. Before ar
th1a :. modal