Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-04-17
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

The Governor-General OF Canada costs
the people Of that Dominion nearly sl,0O0,-
COUNT LEO ToLsToI, the Russian author,
reads, writes and receives his friends In his
bedroom.
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the Pittsburg iron
master, has given $500 library 10 a town
on the Orkney Islands.
! SESAToR-ELEcT PALMER Of Illinois. is
man Of only moderate fortune. Ms estate
being estimatet TO be worth $l00, 900.
Ex-EMPERoR Don PEDRO, Of Brazil ac-
companled by his daughter and grandson.
visited Queen Victoria at Grasse, France.
COUNT ScHoUvALOFF. the Russian Am
bassador in Berlin, reports to the Car that
his post is untenable and begs 20 be erecalled
EMIN PASTA has been heard from. A car
avan sent 70 the coast by him has arrived at
Bagamoyo. itbrings consignment ofivory
valued at $40 900.
PAsTEUR, the French scientist, is famous
for his absent mindedness. 1t is said that he
would frequently forget 10 eat his dinner il
some one did not remind him Of it,
ADELAIDE RIsToRI the Italian actress, Is
nearly seventy years old, but she is still a
beautiful woman. Her figure is straight and
graceful and her voice strong and clear.
SQUIRE BEAsLEY. Of Aberdeen. Ohio, has
married more than 500 runaway couples
within twenty-One years. The Squire Is now
eighty-two years old, and hale and hearty.
SENATOR WAsHBURN, OF Minnesota has
50 many Scandinavians in his constituency
that he has decided 10 visit Norway and
Sweden this summer 10 study the original
stock.
DR.. WIN l. HARRIS, the United States
Commissioner Of Education, is tall straight
and rather thin man. His beard is short
and all gray. He speaks rapidly and easily
and is very entertaining talker.
ERNEST HoRNUNG. the new Australian
writer whose work is becoming very popular
in England, is mere boy in years, not yet
having reached the age Of twenty-one. He
began to write stories in despair Of makinga
9ucceSs in mercantile life
The late General Altert Pike was an un-
known man when he first got into the maya
zines lie was q .pioneer in the wilds Of
Arkansas when his Hymns to the Gods"
published in BldckUoods Magazine, excited
the admiration Of literary Europe.
JOHN STEPHENSON, of New York. who
built the first American horse car, is more
than eighty years old. but still vigorous and
energetic His mind is yet busy with inyen-
tions, and be can accomplish as much work
in day as man many years his junior.
Mrs. T. DEWITT TALMAGE is a busy wo-
man, most Of her time being devoted 10 help
ing her husband in his literary and pastoral
work. She takes entire charge of her hus-
bands mail and is frequently up soon after
dsy-break TO open it. Many of bis letters
she answers herself.
BoTH the parents Of Congressman Nc
Kinley are living at the old home in Canton.
Ohio, aged eighty.four and eighty.two re-
spectively. The Congressman is the baby of
the family at the age of ffty-four. He has
a brother who is Consul at Hawaii, and the
two brothers have not met in fifteen years
FRANK STOCKTON, the author, dictates all
his novels at the rate of 1000 words a morn
ing He has the entire plot of the novel,
with its dramatic situations and even por-
tions Of the conversations. mapped out in his
head befOre,he has word Of it put on paper.
He is dark-faced man, with jet black hair
and dark eyes.
HUNBERT l., King Of Italy was born
March II. 1874, and was the eldest son Of
Victor Emanuel, the first King Of United
Italy. He succeeded his father in 1873 He
married in 1868 his cousin. Margherita.
daughter Of Ferdinand, Duke of Genoa. The
heir apparent, Victor Emanuel, Prince Of
Naples was born in 1869