Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-10-10
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
JAMES G. BLAINE is sixty years old.

JAMES G. BLAINE is sixty years old.
BoULANGER is going to publish book.
OUIDA has her name on twenty-seyen
novels.
QUEEN VICTORIA has saved 5000, 900 in
round numbers
CONGRESSMAN KMGoRE was once Justice
Of the Peace in Texas.
EVANGELIST SAN JONES has made $4,000
in real estate within year.
THE President of Uruguay lives over a
millinery store with his wife.
The King Of Greece is the best tennis
player among the royalties Of Europe.
CHAUScEY NJ. DEPEw's salary as Presi-
dent OF the New York Central Railroad is
$50, 900.
GENERAL F. BURD GRUBB, who has been
appointed Minister 70 Spain, is forty nine
years old.
Rose ELIZABETH CLEVELAND, sister Of
the ex-Presdent, has gone abroad for an ex-
tended visit.
VICE president MoRToS's herd Of Guern-
sey cattle carried of the prize at the New
York State Fair.
MAJOR WILLIAM G. MOORE. Chief Of the
Washington police, was private secretary u
IIeslUSlL AuuIeW JOnlsOn.
PRINCESS WILHELNINA. the future Queen
of Holland. is a fair-headed, slender, incon-
spicuous maid Of nine years.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES has written
with the same pen for twenty-five years. 1t
is gold and in perfect condition.
GENERAL f KIRBY SMITH, the President
Of Suwanee College, Tennessee, is in New Or
leans undergoing treatment for a cancer.
GOVERNOR TAYLOR Of Tennessee, will re-
side in Chattanooga after the expiration OF
his term Of office and resume the practice OF
law.
MRS. HELEN GOULD. Jay Gould's daugh-
ter. is an accomplished bOtanist. She has the
rarest private collection of orchids in the
country.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE hasa royalty Of
fifteen cents from each copy Of Ben Hur'
that is printed. His usual income from this
source is between $1,000 and 5000.
ROBERT LEWIS STEVENSON, the novelist,
has bought four hundred acres Of land on the
Island OF Upolu, in the Samoan group and
proposes to make it his permanent home.
THE favorite novelist Of the day among the
women of Paris is Paul Bourget. compara-
lively new writer. Six years ago be was
practically unknown. even TO the people OF
the Latin quarter, wnere ne iVes.
THE heir apparent Of the japanese Empire
became Of legalage eleven years. on Novem-
her 3, 1889 De was appointed to some hon
orary Office and given a sword that has been
kept in the imperial family since 1Ol.
THE new Professor OF Greek in Hastings
College, Nebraska, is Miss Jane Graydon, a
girl OF only twenty-four. She not only knows
Greek but is an accomplished tennis-player
and is expert in other out-of-door games.
DAVID FULLER, one Of the clerks in the
office of the Tn ted States Consul General in
Paris. mulattO, has been connected with
the Office for more than thirty years, and is
said to be a painter Of considerable talent.
GABRIELLE GREELEY. the great editors
daughter has for some years led very re-
tired life at Chappaqua, \. Y. She Is still
beautiful woman, though sorrow and care
have lett their traces on her face and sue Is
growing visibly older.
THE young Viscount Belgrave, grandson
Of the Duke Of Westminster, il he lives 10 in
herit his patrimony. will be the richest man
in the world. By the time he attains his ma
iority his income will amount 70 between
klO, 600 and $40, 700 day.