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PROMINENT PEOPLE.
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p T. BARNUM left S., 00O 900.
SECRETARY RUsK is fond Of horseback
riding.
QUEEN VICTORIA writes Hindoostanes
readily.
THE Emperor of China is suffering with
insomnia.
SENAroR-ELHcr FELTON,, OF California, is
a bookworm.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, will in
spect Alsace- Lorraine fortresses.
EDMUNDs, of Vermont, was only thirty
eight years old when he entered the Senate.
MADRID has presented Sarasate, the vio'
linist, with crown Of silver and gold DOW.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH, of Austria,
doesn't regard European war as lmminen1.
TENNYsoN is grieved. if not annoyed, that
his last poem should have been so much rldi-
culed by the press.
ApARBER at Hastings England. who cut
Mr.. Gladstone'S hair has been caught selIing
locks of it at sixpence per lock-
EM1N PAcHA, tho African explorer, has
been honored by German botanlsts. A new
plant has been called Eminia Eminens.
ALBERT BrERsrADT, the artist is about to
visit Spain and Portugal to make stuc"s for
the picture Of 'sThe Landing OF Colum ous'
which he intends to complete for the world S
fair.
BARON GUsTAvE RorHcEILD b as returned
to Paris from Algeria in precarious health.
It is stated that in recent years he has lost
$40, 900. 900 in speculations He still mas
large fortune.
The mother of the Italian Queen is the
Duchess Of Genoa, now a woman Of sixty.
She is a musician of taste aud ability and ls
the widow of King Victor Emmanuers
brother, Prince Ferdinand.
WHEN Barnum, tho Snowman, made his
will he had himself examined by several
prominent physicians as to his sanity, and
procured their afsdavits that he was men.
tally qualified to dispose of his property.
SENATOR MANDERsoN, President pro tenn.
of the United States Senate, Is fifty-three
wears old. He served through the war In
the Union armies, reaching the rank Of Bre.
vet Brigadier- General of Volunteers in 1865.
PRESIDENT BALMAcEDA, of Chile, is
stern and arbitrary man, with cold gray
eyes, thin lips and an angular chin. lie
possesses more education and ability than
are usually found in South American die.
tator.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE and Secretary
of the Treasury Foster are almost doubles
In personal appearance, their resemblance
being so striking that they are frequently
mistaken for each other. Each is man OF
medium height, weighing about 17O pounds.
BENSON j. LOSING, the historian, has a
bushy gray beard, bald, broad forehead,
and scholarly stoop. He is rising eight
and seventy, and after working some years
at matchmaking, he became, in 1885, Joint
owner and editor of the Poughkeepsie 1ele-
graph.
REPRESENTATIVE SHIvELY, of Indiana, is
pointed out as one Of the handsomest men
in Congress. He is pictured as having the
head of poet, with wavy black hair, clear
cut features, dark eyes and a fetching mus.
tache. He is over six feet tall and is well
proportioned.
THE Freemason who succeeds General
Albert Pike as the highest dignitary of the
Order in this couutryis James Cunningham
Bachelor, NJ. D., Of New Orleans, Lieu.
tenant Grand Commander of the grand
consistory of the ancient and accepted Scot
tish rite in the Southern jurisdiction. He
is Canadian by tirth, but settled IN Ala
bama before the war.