Passaic City record., 1891-10-17
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

THE German Kaiser is an inveterate
smoker.
Mr.. AND MRS GLADSTONE will pass the
winter in Florence, Italy.
The royal families of Russia and Greece
are now visiting in Denmark.
JUDGE NOAH DAVIS was born on a farm
AMI realized his first coin selling eggs.
THE late w. L. Scott, of Erie, Penn, was
a director in railroad companies owning
%. 600 miles of road.
ENoCH PRATT, the Baltimore banker, who
at the age of eighty-three is as clipper as he
was fifty years ago, never wore spectacles.
THE Duke of Nassau, although seventy
five years old, is still hale and hearty. He
has fortune of s25, 00O. 900. and is believed
to be the richest prince in Europe.
THE Shah of Persia has been in retirement
lately, because by mistake, he used a rheu-
matte lotion instead of hair dressing and
turned his hair beautiful myrtle color.
AUTHOR HowELLs is one of the neatest
of menin his attire. He spends six hours a
day at his desk, writing usually from 8 till
3, with no midday lunch to divert his
thoughts.
So far from being slothful, the Sultan of
Turkey is one of the busiest monarchs in
Europe. He possesses a wide knowledge Of
geography of international law and of
NPSeAA PoAAoSs'
DoY CARLOS, pretender to the throne of
Spain. who is living at the present time in
Venice, is said to be badly in need of money.
He was obliged, according to reports, to
pawn his jewels a short time ago.
The man behind the throne in Russia is
Constantine Petrovitch Probedonostzeff, the
highest civil official in the empire. He is the
practical head of the Russian Church and
the most intimate adviser of the Gar.
SENATOR SHERMAN, of Ohio, preserves
the more important of his letters in fire
proof vault in his Mansfield library. His
correspondence has always been voluminous
and he has destroyed only the unimportant
letters.
i President Carnot, of France the highest
grade of the Order Of the Bath The con.
ferring of this order on the President of
Republic is said to be an unprecedented dis.
tinction
CHARLES 81. ALLEN, the Republican can
| dldate for Governor of Massachusetts,. is a
young man who wears eyeglasses and
dresses in the height of fashion. He is a
| favorite in society. His business is that of
| lumber dealer.
WHEN he visited America in 1881 the late
| General Boulanger showed nothing of the
| Top In his dress or of the snob in his manner
he wore but one of his medals, and that
pinned lnconspicuously on his vest, where it
was practically concealed 10y his coat
DR. NEWMAN HALL, the noted English
consregatlonalist divine, is seventy five
years old. The famous tract, ''Come to
Jesus, of which he is the author, has had a
| greater sale than any other religious work
excepting the Bible and 'Filgrim's Pro
gress."
GOVERNOR BoIEs, of Iowa, is a broad
shouldered man of sixty-four years. He has
ruddy, smooth-shaven face hearty man.
ner and pleasing voice. He is native oil
the State of New York, and, like the regula
ton poor boy in search of fortune, started
West with only few cents in his pocket.
THERE is only one man now living ir
Edinburgh who knew Sir Walter Scott.
That is James Stille, the bookseller, who
began his apprenticeship with John Ballan-
tyne q Co. in the year after Waterloo. He
is full OF "reminiscences of Sir Walter, who
was to him both the greatest and the best OF
men.
IT is announced that Colonel FORSYTH.
formerly OF General Sheridan's staff, is to
! marry the twenty-year-old daughter of his
old friend, DIR. Dallas Bsche a Philadelphian,
while the latter will marry Colonel Forsyth's
daughter, who is also about twenty years OF
age. Both of the prospective bridegroom;
are sixty years of age.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES takes the ut
most precaution to avert an attack of pneu.
| monia. All of the rooms of his house are
equipped with thermometers, barometer
and acromers, and he makes it point never
to rise in the morning without knowing thu
temperature of his bedroom. His rules ar
inflaxible, and he never takes risk.