Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-11-26
PEOPLE IN GENERAL.

Henry NJ. Stanley is educating three
negro boys ebout IL years old whom he
rescued from slavery by paying throe cents
apiece for then.
Sir Edwin Arnolds son Julien is a hard
working r.embor OF the London Telegraph
staff, and doesn't put on any trils because
his father is editor-in- chief.
A not very definite story is current that
Miss Murfrcr the author, has married one
vi her typicel Tennessee ,uouAiancers
a. G. Thurman's health is now 10 good
to suggest the probability of his living 10
years more. Ito completed his 18th year
lust week.
Gov. Foraker reports that in his two
hours conference with Secretary Blaine no
was delighted to find the Did tins sparkle in
the eye Of yhe secretary OF state, VINO shows
himself to- be as vigorous in mind and body
us ne was before his recent indispusition. II
Secretary Blaine is not a presidential can
didato it is not because he is broken dawn
dlun.
The fact that Senator Stanford and John
II. Mclean hrve enlarged their din!ng
rooms in their Washington residences lesls
tho Stnr to surmise thar hospitality viii be
even nore generous than usual noxt season.
Prof Harper is president, has been offered
chance to buy the private library of Sir
Moner Williams the famous Sauscritist
1t embraces 31,i volumes, which err held
At $40, 900.
Patrick Egan is small man physically
He is wholly self-educate1. having begun
life a. a messenger boy in -four mill i'll nu
Irish country town. He rose to be mannS-
ing director o. his company in Dubiu, and
afterward became an extensive dealer in
corn before he joined the councils of the
land league
Horace q. Allon, an eX-presiient OF the
Boston common council, has cec'pt,d tho
republican nomination for majoc o. that
city.
Victor Murdock of Wichita, thu youngest
editor i'll Kansas, is the cue who gavc Jerry
Simpson his sobriquet of 'tnG sockess
statesman
Secretary Rusk retains his early -to-bed-
and early-to-rIse habits in Washington life.
He is rarely seen later than 8 in the even
ing, and is up at this season long before the
sun.
| Sir Charles Dixie, who is familiar with all,
tho armies of Europe, says that the French
army is now the first on the continent.
Baron de Hrsch's representative has
signed II contract with the government for
the purchase OF 13,00l square Leagues Of
land ~ the Argentine republic
| Mrs. Potter Palmer has issueh an invita-
ton TO the members of her boprI Of woman
managers to contribute somsthing from tie
! natural produces Of their States to ornament
the woman's building.
Queen Vctoria's favorite retreat, it is
said, is The private garden Of Osborne castle
on the Isle of Wight. She is less exposed
there to the restraints Of nigh place and tue
espionage OF servants than il hef other resi-
depces
They calling Don Dickinson ths Jen-
ness Miller of politics. because he is charged
with the parentage of Michigan's bifur-
Gated style of electoral vote.
/ Rev. Arthur Bell Nichols, the husband
of Charlotte Brontc is still living, the pas
tor OF a small church in ireland.
The Illness of Gen. njamn f. Butler,
who is laid up with an ear trouble at his
home in Lowell, is not regarded as serious.
A brother of Secretary Eul';, who keeps
! a drug store in Malta, Ohio, feels natur-
al pride in the success and distinction Of
! -. NJ, as lie calls the head of the de
| partment of agriculture.
\ granddaug hter ot Justice Lamar will
make her debut i'll Washington society this
| winter.
Cornelius y. Bliss has been elected presi-
dent of the American Prot -ctive 1alIlf
league, instead of e. II. Amuidown, re-
signed.
DR.. Scott, Mrs. Harrison's father. who
now lives at the White House, has a large
correspondence. though 81 years OF age
Mrs G. a. s3nla is under contract to com
pIete the biography Of her father, Mr.
Robert Stannard, in time for the holiday
sale OF the present year.
The pope has appointed the bishop OF
Chicontimi, Quebec, to BE- coadJutor of the
archbishop of Quebec, with the right OF
succession to the archbishopric.
William d. Window, son OF the late SEQ
rotary Window, has been appointed chief
of the accounts division in The architect's
office at Washington by Secretary Foster.
The Beau Brummel of New York's mid
die aged millionaires is d. O. Mills, who
follows the fashions in male attire very
closely, wears his clothes vol and 10 alto.
gether a model Tor metropolitan Crusus
to pattern after.
Justice Bradley of the United States
Supreme Court shows his continued inter,
est in his alma mater, Rutgers college, by
establishing prize in Roman law, a course
in which forms Part Of the work in the
Latin department OF that institution
The MAN Of HyderaLad, in India. i.
said to spend $40, 900, 900 a year. He is Il
handsome man not yet 30 years old, and IS
very fond OF tiger hunting.
DR.. Browu-Sequnrd doesn't say much
nowadays about his elixir OF life. Ha is
talking about coughing and sneezing Tor
which lie thinks he has u cure.
Senator Davis Of Minnesota has pretty
wife who creates something of a sensation
by driving a very swagger English dog cart
She was once Il goyerness and is remark ably
pretty.
J This story of Row. Lyman Beecher. father
Of Henry Ward Beecher, was told original,
by his SON The elder Heacher mad beel
preaching one Sunday at Litchfeld, and, a.
he got into the carriage to 20 home he Re
marked that he mad never preached such ;
, poor sermon before. "Why, father" sal,
I Henry, ~ never heard you preach louder. ;
''ThaIs it, responded the old man, 'whel
, have nothing to say l always boiler"
I The poet Whittier is making visit t,
Newburyport He is in excellent heelth.