The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-04-10
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

ANDREW CARNEGIE has made s56. 900
In twenty-six years from his rolling mills,
PROFESSOR JOHN FIsKB believes that the
American Indians or: gnally came from Asia.
SENATOR HoAR has purchased the summit
of Asnebumskit Mountain, in PaHtou Mass.
SENATOR WAsHBURN of Minnesota, is
now the sole survivor of famous family OF
seven brothers
OF the eighty members of the United States
Senate there are but three who are fond of
horseback riding:
ARCHBISHOP KENRICK, of st. Louis, now
in his eighty-fourth year, takes daily walk
OF nearly SIX miles.
WILLIAM Fl, JACKSON, brother of Gov
ernor jackson, of Maryland, owns e peach
orchard containing 25, 900 trees.
The Hon. s. ]. Randall is now able to at
tend to his correspondence, and hopes SOON
to resume his duties in Congress.
B. P. SHILLABER Mrs. Partington), is
nearly eighty years old, but he still makes
living writing humorous articles for a syndi-
cate.
FRANK B. TRACY, the son of the Secretary
of the Navy, is an enthusiastic fine stock
raiser, and has a farm in Iioga County,
n. Y.
GEORGE w. PECK, author of IA Bad Boys
Diary" has been nominated for Mayor o.
Milwaukee, Wis, by the Democratic City
Convention.
GENERAL BoULANGER has offered to re-
turn to France if the Government will per-
init him to be tried by a court-martial or the
Court of Appeals.
PRINCESS THERESA, daughtel'of the Prince
Regent of Bavaria, is the author of book
of travels that has attracted great attention
throughout Europe.
WIIr " r,r,r prtr,r T,;@
Minister to Germany, is said to be worth
600 the greater part of which is in
vested in railroad securities
WILLIAM ENDICoTT of Boston, is Just en-
tering upon his ninety-third year. He is the
sole survivor of the seventh generation of
John Endicott's descendants.
HENRY WATTERsoN, of the Louisville
Courier-Journat, will make the annual adj
dress before the South Carolina Press Asso-
citation at Charleston on April 80
A SON of Compile de Lesseps, of Suez Canal
fame, known as Young de Lesseps" al
though fifty-six years of age, is arranging to
visit this country with his family.
JOHN RUSSELL Young lisa guest of James
Gordon Bennett on his yacht, for cruise
which is expected to last two or three months
and to extend as far east as Ceylon.
The Earl of Rosebery, who is spoken of as
a possible successor to Gladstone in the lead
ership of the English L berals is suave.
hammered, hard working Scotchman.
LIEUTENANT SEAToN SCHROEDER, who is
to command the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius,
is prominent among the young officers in the
navy because of his scientific knowledge.
THE students of Boston University were
delightfully."- entertained the other day by
Oliver Wendell Holmes, who appeared be
fore them in the chapel and read several Of
his poems
CAPTAIN WILLIAM CARLTON FOWLER, the
Oldest pilot in New England, has celebrated
his eighty-first birthday at the residence Of
his daughter, Mrs William Evans, Of
Everett, Mass.
A NEW factory will soon be built by DR..
Calling, of machine-gun fame. His inven-
ton is now used by every Government of the
world, and the doctors purse is proportion.
ately heightened.
The late General Schenck was popularity
believed to have published a book on poker
playing, but his explanation was that the
book was published by lady whose guest he
was while Minister to London, and for whom
he had written out the rules of the game al
her request.