Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-28
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GENERAL w. T. SHERMAN is just seventy
years old.
SENATOR HAwLEY practices OH the violin
every day.
Mr.. GLADSTONE keeps six private secre-
taries at work.
SPAIN s little King has an income Of one
million dollars year.
THE White House will soon contain a por-
trait of Grover Cleveland.
CHIEF JUSTICE CoRLIss, of North Dakota,
is only thirty-one years of age.
SENATOR GORMAN is an expert on baseball,
and was formerly noted amateur player.
IN June next King Leopold's jubilee will
be appropriately celebrated at Liege, Bel
GUM.
CARDINAL NEWMAN is Lightweight years
old, but still clear-headed and physically spry
and active.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER never
permits wine to be served at any of his
tertainmentS.
JAMES WHISTLER, London's eccentric
American painter, is comining ever for a visit
in the spring.
CALVIN S. BRICE, Ohio's new Senator will
occupy James Gordon Benefits villa at New
port next season.
PRINCE BIsMARCK's friends are apprehen-
sive again about his health, which is said to
be much impaired.
SENATOR INGALLss daily luncheon at the
Senate restaurant consists of nine oysters
fresh from the shells.
DR.. MCCOsH, ex-President of Princeton,
didn't stop teaching until he had educated
thirty-seven college Presidents.
ROBERT J. BURDETTE, the humorist, is a
little man who talks in a sharp, quick way.
He is tired of humorous writing.
AMONG the many messages of sympathy
received by Secretary Tracy were cablegrams
from Queen Victoria and the King of Italy.
PRINCE FERDINAND, of Bulgaria, will ac-
cOrding to London journal, shortly wed
an immensely wealthy American Catho-
lie"
The richest man in Alabama is II. F. De
Bordeleben, a Birmingham iron manufac-
turer, who is supposed to be worth about
IS, 900, 600.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES always retires
at the same hour, eats dinner in the middle
of the day and walks at least two miles every
twenty-fOur hours.
MONEY is being raised for the erection of
monumental statue of Commodore Wander
bilt ON the campus of Vanderbilt L University,
at Nashville Tenn.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER has a full
beard dresses better than most authors and
+ lives at Hartford. between Mark Twain and
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
PRINCE ARTHUR, Duke of ConnauGht, and
his wife will have receptions in every Cana
dian city and town they visit during their
tour through the Dominion.
BUFFALO BILL is quoted as saying that he
does not wonder that Christopher Columbus
wanted TO get away from Spain, as he felt
very much that way himself
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON comes from an
old and formerly wealthy Southern family.
At the outbreak of the war be had from
2OOO to 3OOC slaves on his plantations.
THE Khan of Khiva and the Emin OF Box
hara are TO make a tour through Europe
this year. but the Russian Government stipu-
lated that they are not t. visit England.
THE Emperor of Russia has been in a state
of insane panic. the result being that he has
sunk into the deepest dependency, and con-
stantly insists that his end Is approaching.
AsToSIsHMENT is expressed by many peo-
pie upon learning that Mr. Blaine and Mr..
Randall never studied law. One began N.
career as a merchant, and the other IS a jour-
nalist
THE first cash john D. Rockefeller, OF
Standard Oil Company fame, ever had was
twenty-five cent?, whic earned by WORK
ing for q farmer 50 that he might 20 % ths
cIrf.uS.