Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-02-11
PEOPLE IN GENERAL,

sailor, and untiring i'll the performance of
his duties.
Thomas a. Edison's father, tall, erect
old man of So, is said to bear striking
physical resemblance to Mr.. Blaine.
Mrs. Ii. 7. Dillon, a negro woman, was
the first person Of her sex to pass the Ia
bama State medical examination. "The
world do move.
Gen. L. f. Beale of Washington has on
his farm near Baltimore the celebrated stal-
lion that the sultan OF Turkey presented to
Gen. Grant, and which Gen. Graut gave to
Gen. Beale
William Lloyd Garrison told the Massa-
chusetts Woman's Suffrage Association
few days ago that he hoped that his child
rem might live to see a woman president of
of Harvard college.
Prof. Simon Newcomb, of tho Johns Hop.
kins University also professor of mathe-
MATES in the United States navy, has been
made an honorary member of the Royal in
stitute OF London.
lit. Rev. DR.. Herbert Vaughan, whom
London letters designate as likely to succeed
Cardinal Manning as Archbishop of West
minister, is the son OF a lieutenant colonel
in the British army, and is at present bishop
of Stafford. He came to this country in
1871 on a special mission to the negroes.
Glance Falconer' Miss Mary Harl,er)
has new book under way that will deal
with life in the east end OF London.
Prof. Packard OF Brown has been elected
an honorary member OF tho Imperial So
cicty of Natural History and Anthropology
| at Moscow.
To Lady Brooke, the noted English
beauty, is due the founding OF a scnoo OF
needlework for poor girs nsar Easton, in
the midst Of poor agricultural district
The school has been very successful.
Tennyson was first moved to write verses
when III years OF age, and upon a Sunday
while staying from church.
N. Jules Simon thinks the day is near at
hand in France when there will be as many
divorces as marriages.
Judge Walter Q. Gresham is being urged
| to run for governor OF Illinois.
Miss Alice Longfellow, eldest daughter Of
the poet, still lives at her old home in Cam
bridge with an uncle.
Mr.. William d. Howels composes all OF
his stories on the typewriter, and is able to
work the machine very rapidly.
Cardinals Manning and Simeoni were ele-
waited to their highest rank in tue church
on the same day and died on the same dav.
Moses Hopkins, who has just died in san
! Francisco, was the last of the family
brought into prominence by the great
wealth Of his brother, Mark HOPKINS.
Moses received 81, 00O 600 of his brother 8
vast estate through a compromise with the
widow.
Mrs. Hearst, the widow OF Senator
| Hearst OF California, carries a life iusur-
ance of S4O0 600.
The smallest master mason In the world
is Il. H. HuHza of Brooklyn, who is 33
inches high.
Ex-senator William Maxwell Eyarts is
"A years old
The Princess Of Wales thinks that chill
dren ought not to be allowed to read Shake.
speare.
The Cars eldest daughter has been be-
trothed to Grand Duke Alexander Mich
aelovitch.
The wealth of j. a. Morris, the head OF
the Louisiana lottery, is estimated at $50, =
900, 900, but he never succeeded in Getting
into society.
George Suber, aged "a, residing near
Barny's Corners, Ind, fought with Gen.
Jackson at New Orleans In August last
he was married. The old man is still stout
and hearty.
Senator Brice, Of Ohio, wears his hair in
almost the fac-simile OF a curly auburn wig,
while Senator John Sherman's wig is ad ius-
ted with that careless nonchalance supposed
to be characteristic Of people who have SO
much hair they don't know what to dc
with it.
Edward Box says that there are only
four authors who earn $50, 600 year with
their pens, and these lucky ones are vii
liam Dean Howells, Robert Louis Steven,
sou, Mark Twain, and Mrs. Burnett. Lew
Wallace received 500, 900 in eight years il
royalties from Ben Hur.n
The youthful emperor of AMMAN is only
IL years old and an inveterate cigarett,
smoker. He is studous and serious littl
boy, with lingering fondness for childish
toys.
Siemans, the very celebrated electrician
OF Berlin, expects to eXpend $685., 900 on tn,
exhibit Of his firm at ths Columbian exposi
ton, and will occupy about 70, 600 square
feet OF the floor space
l'a.,rur us an r.- Of wonderful power
visitor 10 hi, '.AcuaGeTion in Paris
.,Iyrr Ia has gathered various kinds of AMI
mas for experimental uses, saw the ohsmis
quell with glance fierce Spanish mastit
which for his fsrocity had been muzzled an
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