Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-11
ABoUT pRoMINHNr PEOPLE.

80 VI va 10 Va
diamonds valued at Over 81, 500, 900.
Neal Dow, the prohibitionist, ha
completed his SSth year, and is still
in good physical condition.
U. S. Hobart died in San Francisc,
the other day worth 81, 200, COO. Ii
1870 he was a carman in a mine, earn
ing 81 a day.
The Gar of Russia owns more lant
in his W individual right than tn,
area of the entire possessions Of tn,
French Republic.
Edmund Clarence Stedman said t
a Boston Journal writer: 81 would
rather be the best bootblack in New
York than the poorest poet"
The biggest man in congress is Req
resentative Stone, of the Twenty
third Pennsylvania district, who i.
six feet six inches tall and proper
tionately stout.
Capt. Fred l.. Dean, of Washington,
ID. c., though not an old man in years
is said to be the Oldest G.. A. Il. yet.
eran living. He is one of its original
four organizers.
Secretary j. w. Foster is the only
diplomat who has held three first.
class commissions. Grant sent him
to Mexico, Hayes to Russia and
Arthur to Spain.
Kossuth, the illustrious old hero
of Hungary, is engaged upon a
voluminous history of the stirring
times in which he participated, and
hopes to be able to complete it before
he dies.
The estate of 10000 acres on which
Mr.. Geo. Vanderbilt is erecting Il bar.
oDial castle in North Carolina repre-.
sents forty farms, which were bought
up from the mOuntaineers at a total
cost of fully 5000, 900.
Mrs. T. b. Taber WiIlets, of Roslyn,
l.. L. personally manages a farm OF
600 acres. Her Guernsey herd is one
of the finest in the country, and
their owner is said TO know the pedi-
gree of every n of them.
Geo. William Curtis lost his
fortune and incurred a debt of $50, 900
in trying to establish Putnam's Mag
azine and spent the best years of his
life in paying off the debt, which he
discharged to the last dollar.
On a recent visit to the Gobelin
tapestry works, President Carnot
discovered a magnificent piece of
tapestry that had been bought for
the palace at Fontainebleau, thirty
years ago, but had not yet been
delivered.
Chauncey G. Smith, of Hartford,
Conn.,, has been fifty years a deacon
of the first Baptist church in that city
and the completion of the half cen
fury was celebrated last week by a
complimentary reception given by
the church people.
DR.. M. F. Howley, the new Roman
Catholic bishop of Newfoundland, is
the first native of that island to
attain the honor. He is a prolific
historical writer, and is fayorably
known to American fishermen who
visit Newfoundland.
Robert Lincoln has retained but
few of the innumerable relics and
souvenirs he ono possessed of his illus
trious father. He himself has but
little reverence for relics, and nearly
everything of the kind he had has
been begged away from him.
The Rev. H.. III. Henson, the vicar
of Barking, England, throws his gar
den open to his parishioners every
Sunday afternoon. He engages a mill
tary band to play sacred music, and
expresses a hope that those who are
at a loss for a quiet and shady place
in which to smoke and chat on Sum
day afternoons will accept his invita-
ton.
w. T. Stead, the former editor of
the Pail Mall Gazette, has on foot an
enterprise for the translation of the
scriptures into the language of the
ordinary man and woman. of u
time. He has eighteen translators
of xrnply on thn Naw Ufn-ta ,a,tat
divided into groups of three and
four, and he expects to publish the
Gospels and Acts this year.
Archibald Forbes, the war CORE
spondent, holds himself at the COM
mand of his editor-in-chief at all
hours. He has two entire equipments,
one for cold countries, the other for
the torrid one. Firearms, clothing,
saddles, are all ready, ever to Il purse
full CT gold, and passports for every
country on the globe. An order by
telephone, and instantly he departs
for Zanzibar or Moscow.
Miss Nina Cromwell, of Detroit,
who claims to be a lineal descendant
of the great Oliver Cromwell, owns a
venerable Bible which is thought to
be the identical volume which the
protector used. 1t was printed in
1891 by John Wafe for the assigns of
Richard Day, and was brought to
this country in 1850 by Benjamin
Cromwell, the great-uncle of the
present owner, whohas refused $500
for it.
An agreeable impression was made
on the house of representatives by
young Henry st. George Tucker, of
Virginia, when he delivered his
maiden speech the other day on the
election of senators by the people. Mr..
Tucker, who is a son of John Ran
dolph Tucker, looks ever more boy
ish than he is, but he acquitted him
self with credit and the members
listened to him with other interest
than that arising from the fact that
his father was the most popular man
in half a dozen congresses.