Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-09-12
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

EMIL lola, the French novelist, has made
$500, 900 from his books.
The estate of the late John Boyle O'Reilly
will amount to $3.50, 600.
EDWIN ARNOLD according to rumor, Is
going to take japanese bride and settle in
Japan.
WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS, United States
Minister to Germany, no longer wears MS
hair banged.
HON. W. L. SCOTT has declined the Demo-
cratic nomination for Congress from his old
district in Pennsylvania.
GEORGE W. CHILDs, the Phil1delphia edi-
tor and philanthropist, is said to spend and
give away $3.50, 900 year
GENERAL EzETA, who has led San Saliva
doris forces so successfully against Guate-
mala, Is only twenty seven years old.
SENATOR GEORGE, of Mississippi, has a
head of long, flowing hair that waves
picturesquely about when he is excited.
YOUNG John Jacob Aston is stoop-shoul-
dered, probably in anticipation OF the. great
responsibility he will have to carry in later
years.
PRINCE ALEXANDER OF BATTENBURG has
adopted the children of Panitza, who was
shot for conspiring against the existing Bull
garian regime.
THE Duke of Edinburgh is clever violin
ist and also an enthusiastic postage stamp
gatherer, his collection being one of the most
complete in the world
COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS RAUM is a
short man of medium weight keen-look1ng
and bald on the top of his head. His chin Is
covered with whiskers.
PRESIDENT ROBERTS, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, started life as track hand thirty
wears ago. The combined salaries be receives
now amount to 800, 000a year.
ROBERT P. PORTER, the Superintendent of
the Census, has the physique of an athlete.
He is an active, ciean-shaven man, dark
complexioned, with black eyes and black
hair.
The Marquis of Salisbury, the Premier of
Great Britain, owns 20, 600 acres of land in
England As much of it lies within the
corporate limits of London, he is enormous
,ly rich
JUSTICE BRADLEY, of the United States
Supreme Court is an expert mathematician.
He has been known to make almanacs and
calendars just to keep his mind in good work
ing order.
| THE Queen of Italy has maintained her
reputation for pluck and endurance by climb
ing the Mountain of Monza, 10, 900 feet high,
during a rainstorm, which turned into snow
before the top was reached
DR.. NoBvIN GREEN, the head of the West
,,ern Union Telegraph Company, is a Ken
tuckian of giant frame. nearly seventy three
years of age. He was a practising physician
in the early days Of his career.
JOHN NJ. STEADMAN, of Brockport, n. Y,
who has accepted an appointment as biolo-
.gist in the Agricultural Department at Wash
ington, graduated from Cornell University
two years ago, and is only twenty-four years
old.
SENATOR EDMUNDs, of Vermont, has
very lucrative law practice, and is continu-
ally obliged to decline business that is
brought to him. 1t is alleged that the Sena-
tor is not so old as he looks, and that he may
be good for a decade more of Senatorial
life.
PROBABLY the smallest millionaire in the
country is Jacob Seligman, of New York
city, who is hardly more than four feet nigh.
He came from Germany when a boy and
went to Michigan twenty years ago without
a dollar. His fortune is now estimated at
.s15, 900, 900.