Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-04-07
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has a wonderful
memory.
PRESIDENT NUxEz. of Colombo, has re
fused pension of $50, coo year.
ISAAC PUsEY GRAY, the new Minister &c
Mexico, is SIX feet ten inches tall and weighs
$50 pounds.
The full name Of the Brazilian Minister
at Washington il General Dlonizlo Evange
lstade Castro Csruuetra-
WILFRED YooSe. a schoolbov. is paid
S6GO year for singing in the choir Of All
Angels Church, New York City
MRS LAMONT wife of the Secretary OF
War, will remain in New York until the
close Of the school year hberates the chill
dren.
Ex-SECRETARY TRACY says that, in addi-
ton to the hard labor and constant anxiety,
his cabinet life cost him about $50, 600
year over and above his salary.
GOVERNOR Roswell P. FLOWER. of New
York, got his first start in life from money
earned as a clerk in the Watertown Post
Office. He received 500 year.
VERDI received for "Fastaff," his new
opera, S32, 600 down and will get forty per
cant. of the publishing and performing roy
atty rights. Bolto got $1,000 for the hbretto.
IN many sections there is doubt to the
way il which the name o. Attornev-General
Olney ought to be pronounced. In Rhode
Island, the chief seat of the family, they
call it Oh-ny.
The Russian oil kings, the Nobel Brothers,
are really enter prising SwedeS. who are
said to dispose OF upward OF sixty million
gallons of kerosene annually, ana always
for ready cash.
SENATOR MANTLE, of Montana. is an
EnpIishman by birth and telegraph Oper-
ator by occupation. He is only thirty nine
years of age and is the youngest member In
the Senate chamber.
PROFESSOR VIRCHOw. a son of the emf
nent cholera expert of Germany, who is in
this country, said in an interview on chOIera
that the prin cpal precaution was to observe
care in what is eaten.
NJ. CAvAIGNAC, who is looked on, in toe
light of recent events as possibly tue COM
ing President of France, is said to be OF
Irish descent. He is descended from the
NacMurrOugh kavanaghs, who were kings
Of Leinster.
PROFESSOR BRIGGS in addition to his
duties as professor of biblical theology III
Union Theological Seminary, New York
City. has now been assigned TO the chair of
systematic theology, made vacant by the
death of Professor Worcester.
NINE NAVARRO, better known as Mary
Anderson, is employing her leisure at Tun-
bridge Wells. England, in writing her re-
miniscences These will, Of course, include
her recollections Of the stage 10th III
America and there. Miss Anderson's favor
tie relaxation when travelling IS chess, and
care is always taken that a chess outfit Is
provided on the train by which she travels
In all probability, the greatest monarch,
as tar as size goes, who rules in the world,
the King of the Gilbert Islands, Teiburi-
mon, who weighs 300 pounds. His son, the
Crown Prince, is still heavier. A daughter
of His Majesty, only eight years old, weighs
10 pounds. The King has an American
cook, and lives 10 a comfortable fashion,
as all his subjects pay poll tax OF 81 each
GENERAL THOMAS T. ECKERT, the new
President of the Western Union Telegraph
Company. is one of the oldest telegraph
operators in the world. He learned how to
handle the key in 1919, and has been actively
engaged in the business almost ever since.
During the war he was in charge OF the
military telegraph. and for short time was
Assistant Secretary of War. He has been
with the Western Union since 1866.