Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-02-06
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

THE King of Siam has taken to literature.
F. L. ANEs of Boston, is rated at 81, Geo.
900.
JAY GoULDs daily income is said to be
about $500.
PRINCE GEORGE of Wales, will open tho
Jamaica exposition.
SWEEPING reductions in the Popes house.
hold expenses are TO made.
PROFESSOR Koch takes horseback ride
at three O'Clock every afternoon.
LORD SALISBURY, tho English Premier, is
said TO work fourteen hours a day.
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD gets 81, OOo for HI,
latest poem, The Light OF the World"
MRS. HoDGsoN BURNET1's income from
her books and plays amonnIs to over So, 900
a year.
THE only daughter OF Senator Voorhees,
of indiana, has joined the Roman Catholic
Church
QUEEN VICTORIA has done much to pro.
mote photography i'll England, as she has al
ways been a great collector of photographs.
CAPTAIN JOHN ERICssoN tle inventor.
made in his will specific bequtsts OF SIPS, ,0OO,
but it turns out that his estate does not ex-
ceed 500 900.
THE King OF Sweden is heavily embar-
raised in his personal finances, and has had
to borrow money from wealthy merchants
Of Gothenberg
THE Right Hon. James Augustus Sin
clair, +. r. s., sixteenth Earl Of CaiJhness,
is dead He was born in 1927, and was for
many years banker in Aberdeen.
W. c. DIsMUKEs the new President Of the
Tennessee State Senate, is thirtysx years
| of age He is a lawyer by profession and
| eorxyad in ha 1oyyar hnusa In gt
| Mr.. TALMAGE prides himself upon being
| able to turn out an excellent sermon more
rapidly than most men can write letter.
/ Spurgeon is an equally quick composer
JOHN FIrzRoY DE CoURCEY, Lord Kin
cade, who recently died in England, was one
| of the two British nobemen entitled by
| royal grant to keep their hats on their heads
iu the presence OF royalty.
EDWIN b. WINANs, who is tho first Demo
cratic Governor that Michigan has had IN
| thirty years, is a conservative, bald-headet
old farmer, with ncatly-trimmed beard
and kindly eyes beanins out Of gold spec-
tacles.
SENATOR SAWYER, of Wisconsin, is said to
have reduced his weight sIxty-five pounds in
six months by eating four4or five times a
| day-as often as he desires to eat, IN tact-
| but taking as little food rs possible to as
suaqe the pangs of hunger. He also avoids
fluids.
! PROBABLY the most extensive farmer III
all Pennsylvania is DR.. Livingood. oil
Womelsdorf, Berks County. His farms
cover about 2000 acres and are worth from
5000 900 to $3.50, 900. He nets an average ol
four per cent. on his investments ana Ii
satisfied.
MAYOR SALTER, of Argonia, Kan, beside
attending to the public affairs of that enter
prising little city, does all the household
work at home, including cooking, Washing
and ironing for family OF SIX: IL IL per
haps unnecessary too add that Mayor Salte'
Is woman.
GENERAL EUGENE A. CARR, one OF tn
generals campaigning against the Indian
with Miles is West Point graduate OF loni
standing. He is a medium sized man. OF
mnscular figure, rather bald, and somewha
neppery in temperament Socially he Is nos
pitable and most popular
Ir ia said of David Jacks, the Monterey
County Call millionaire that he can rld
twenty miles in a straight line upon MS owl
land. He is a Scotchman, and in ls49 stoves
himself away in a barrel on vessel ooun
for California. Now he has fortune o
n. 600 600. He Is devout Presbyterian.