Passaic City record., 1893-01-21
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

THE Khedive of Egypt uses type.
writer.
Rev. T. DE Wrrr TALMAaE is sixty-one
years DID,
BISMARCK is reported to have extensive
investments in Milwaukee, Wis.
| Ex-MAYoR GRANT, of New York City,
has had five fattsring business offers
GOVERNOR HoGG of Texas, is only thirty
nine years of age, but he weighs 375 pounds.
THE Medical Society of Berlin has made
! M. Pasteur, the French scientist, an honor
ary member.
GLADSTONE, within the most excl lusive Of
| fetal circles in the English Cover nment. is
known as plain Mr.. g :"
BJoRNsEN celebrated his sixtieth birth
| day recently, and festivities in his honor
were held throughout Norway.
THE Duke OF Veragua, a descendant OF
Columbus. has announced that he will sail
from Spain for this country soon.
PERu's new Minister to the United States
Senior Cenevaro, is a gallant soldier.
strikingly handsome, very well off and a
bachelor.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has great con-
fidence in his ability to read character
through the expressions of the human face.
There is a fascination for him in the pursuit
of his theoretical science.
MRs. ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD,
who sprung into fame at the age of twenty
as the author of Gates A jar" /" is now in her
fiftieth year. Her face is still very young
and she has good color s'
STANLEY Brown, once Private Secretary
of President Garfield, is now clerk in the
offics OF the Geological Survey in Washing
ton. at $l400 year. He married Mollie,
the daughter OF the dead President.
w. T. ADAMS better known as SOLVER
Opticn has written over 5000 short stories
and 100 books. He writes five books q year
and has been hard at work for twenty years
or more. His books are written for young
readers and he has made a fortune out of
them.
SENATOR HoAR, of Massachusetts,, has
been advised by his physicians that his eye
sight is fully restored, and that he may use
his eyes for hard work as freely as during
any time in his life While he is making no
plans for reelection, he denies that he ever
authorized the announcement that he in
tends to resign.
TRUMAN HENRY Stafford, Professor OF
Astronomy at Williams College is one of
the most remarkable lightning calculatorsp
now living. His manner is quick and nerv-
Gus, and when 'sdoing large and difficult
sum in his head" he walks rapidly up and
down the classroom, clasping and unclasp'
ing his hands or twitching his mustache.
JOHN 7. RICH, the newly-installed Gov
ernor of Michigan. is self-made man. His
schooling was only that of the average far
mer's boy, and he is himself practical far
mer to-day. besides being the President OF
the Michigan State Fair Association. He
has served in the Legislature and in Con-
gress. and was State Railroad Com missioner
FOR four years. beginning with 1886 Re
SENATOR KENNAs death is the fourth
amons the members of the United States
Senate since the Fifty second Congress was
called together, a little more than year
ago. First there was Senator Plumb, who
died in Washington, December 90 1891.
Then there was Senator Barbour, who died
in Washington, on May II last; Senator Glib
son, who died at Hot Springs, Ark, Decem-
ber Is last, and now Senator Kenna.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has extended the
classification of tho Civil Service SO as to
include all free delivery offices, COL in mum.
Der, sixty three of whicn are at present
classified: also by an amendment to the