Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-06-02
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Ex-SPEARER GALUsHA A. GROW Isl wealthy
coal miner on the Ohio River.
SIR WILLIAM HARcoURT is an enthusiastic
amateur gardener.
The Gar Of Russia is very load of teIestry,
and has all his own rooms hcng with it.
BANKER RosENBRRG's will bequeathed over
$500, 900 to Galveston CTexas) charities
President CLEVELAND never wears gloves,
no matter how cold the weather may be.
EMILIO CASTELAR,. the Spanish statesman
announces that he has definitely retired from
public life.
Miss Rose CLEVELAND, sister OF the Pres-
dent, has returned to this country after
two years spent in travelling in foreign lands
The present Sultan Of Morocco is descended
from an Irish girl who became a member Of
the then royal harem more than q hundred
years ago.
GEORGE LIZoTTE and Mrs. Lizotte. the lat
ter niece of Justice Harlan, have been on
wedding tour ever since their marriage in
June. 1891. Thus far they have Travelled 81,
900 miles.
WHEN the w..1 and daughters Of the Chi.
nese Minister to England were presented 10
Queen Victoria they were allowed 70 remain
seated after their presentation. as their small
feet untitled them for long standing.
CHEvALIER ANTON voS ScHMERLING. Prime
Minister of Archduke John as Regent Of the
German Empire in 1s4S and subsequently
Premier of Austria from 1860 to 1863 Is dead.
He was born in Vienna on August %, 1905.
The young Earl Of Dalhousie, who onlyre.
Gently celebrated his fifteenth birthday, is the
owner OF an estate of one hundred and thirty
six thousand acres in Foriarshire, worth
about two hundred thousand dollars pei
annum.
KING HUMBERT. OF Italy. gave S5O0.000 for
the foundation Of an institute forthe orphans
of workingmen, in cOmmemoration Of his
silver wedding. The receipts from the great
historical tourney amounting 10 go, GOO. were
devote to charity.
CoNGREssMAN Thomas J. GEARY, author OF
the famous Chinese exclusion law Just AZ
frmed by the Supreme Court, halls from
California, though a Massachusetts, man by
birth. He is thirty-nine years OF age. He
removed to California in 1863.
WILLIAM F. SNoDGRAss. chief boatswain's
mate Of the United States cruiser San Fran
cisco. who trained the crews that carried OF
the international honors at the Hampton
Roads boat races, is a native OF Philadelphia
and entered the navy as an apprentices in
1866, when only thirteen years Old.
The Duponts, Of powder-mahng fame.
have retained to a remarkable degree after
many generations Of residence in this coun-
try the physical characteristics OF their
French ancestors. Several Of the family
would infallibly be taken for native French
men in Paris, and are singularly foreign
looking in this country.
THE Emperor william, Of Germany, it is
said, nearly petrlhed the officials at the
Quirina by informing them that he and tho
Empress would have a suite Of seventyLhroa
persons. The apartments prepared 70.
hem, both Mt the Quirnal and at the Royal
Palace in Naples, wero entirely redecoratcd
md refurnished at enormous expense.
TIE Hon. John Balance, the recently do
,eased Premier Of New Zealand, was born in
cabin in Glenavy, near Lough Neagh, Ire
and, and served with an iron monger till no
vas twenty-seven years old. Thirty years
lgo he went to New Zealand, and after u
ime engaged in journalism. from which he
vas called TO various Offices and finally to
he Premiership.