The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1893-02-17
MIGHTY MAN.

A Chinese banker Han Quay, is stated
10 be worth the almost inconceivable sum
of 81, $780, 100000.
President Diaz is said to own shares in
every railroad, telegraph, telephone and
electric light company in Mexico.
Governor Hogg of Texas is a man of good
physical proportions. He is only 80 years
OF age, but he weighs 375 pounds
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge was as
bright and witty Us ever ON his list birth
day, which occurred not long ago.
M. Stambuloff, prime minister of Bul.
garia, is crack shot with stones and rare.
ly fails to hit a moving object at distance
of over 80 yards.
Edwin Gould has collection of 10000
newspaper clippings on the death of his
father, which, combined, constitute an obit-
uary six miles long.
John d. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil
magnate, is about Sc years of age. If he
lives until 20, his wealth. it is estimated,
will amount to nearly S300,000000.
The cheapest dress made by Worth, the
Partisan man milliner, even if of cotton,
does not cost less than $50, and this he
calls his "pauvrette costume"-the poor
girls dress.
Mr.. John Lister of Passaic Falls, N. j.,
figures as the Oldest active bicycler in the
country. He is over 90, veteran of the
war and once rode $50 miles on his machine
in two days.
One of the Oldest Of British noblemen is
the Duke of Northumberland, who is nearly
3d. He has been a member of five cabinets
and sat in parliament for 20 years before he
succeeded to his title.
EX-Speaker Reed is reputed to earn &c.
600 year by his pen. 1t is this income
that insures him the comforts and luXuries
of life, for he has no other income besides
his salary as congressman.
Ex-senator Ingalls, has discarded the
SLOUGH hat for a somewhat antique plug,
the flaming red necktie has been replaced
by one Of decorous black, and hanging
loosely about his sinewy form is cape
ulster
tFhe chief dissipation of the young Earl Of
Craven, who is to marry the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Martin of New York |
is said to be that of smoking tiny cigarettes |
in an amber holder studded with dia- |
monds.
Lieutenant Peary is credited with the
ICNiIlis5 AlltlO ~ LCllNl GA ICNAlblOl w Dllh5
him back from Greenland was at all neces-
sary, and he gives it out distinctly that he
does not want any sent for him the next |
time he goes to the arctic regions.
The Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker of London
has come out on platform akin to spirit |
ualism, or divine spiritualism, as he calls |
it. He prays 80 become the medium of
messages about business, politics, etc, that |
shall be of real service to the world.
General Trochu's opinion of Prince Bis
marck is that he might have become |
great man had he not become only great |
Prussian Bismarcks estimate of Trochu |
is now a matter of history. HE knew |
enough to know that he didn't amount to
much"
Mr.. Gladstone, within the most exclusive
official circles in the English government,
is known as plain "Mr. c." Thus John
Morley will tell Sir William Harcourt
what Mr. G." thinks about it. And it's
generally understood that what "Mr. g."
says goes.
M. Clemenceau is one of the few men who
cannot be interviewed. When a reporter
goes to see him and asks, "What do you
think of such and such things?" NJ. Glenn
enceau always answers, Let me hear what
you think first" And the conversation
usually stops there.