Passaic City record., 1893-03-11
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GRESHAM is credited to both Illinois and
Indiana.
GENERAL GRANTS widow is in California
visiting her son.
ALLEN MARVEL, President of the Atchi
son Railroad, is dead.
THE tide of popularity in Giadstone's favor
continues to swell in England.
THE Czar of Russia is said to get great
deal of enjoyment out of shoveling snow.
! SENAToR-ELEcT W. N ROACH, of North
Dakota, is an enterprising wheat farmer.
GOVERNOR HoGG, of Texas, is only thirty
nine years Of age, but weighs 375 pounds.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND tells his friends
that his health was never better than it IS
now.
A COUNTY in Wisconsin has been named
Villas, after the senior Senator from that
State
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, the novelist,
has left the Samoan Islands and is now in
Australia.
IT was the policy of the late ex-President
HAYES never to sell real estate that he had in
any way acquired.
MRS. w. R. WHIrNEY's will, leaving
So, 500, 600 to her husband, was written upon
single sheet of paper.
GOVERNOR FLOWER has given his check
for $500 to the building fund of the Albany
IN. Y, Girls Academy.
SARAsATE, the famous violinist, has thr-
tv-two valuable watches which have been
presented to him on different occasions.
PRINCESS KAIULANI, of Hawaii, is tall
and slender, with the eyes of q gazelle and
features that suggest a suspicion OF kanaka
origin"
KIRBY SMITH, a professor in the Uni.
versity of the South at Sewanee, Tenn, is
fell III q
Army living.
Ex-SEcREEARY WHITNEY and family
have started in their yacht fron. Jackson
vile, Fla, for their cruise among the West
Indian Islands.
VERDI was almost sixty years of a.
brought out ''Otello,n and now at eighty be
| produces '.Falstaff.n
ALEXANDER RUSSELL WEBB, ex-Consul
| to the Philippine Islands. has returned to
| America to preach Mohanmedism aud is
IheralIy supplied with funds by Moslem
| merchants of Bombay.
MRS. MCKINLEY, the wife of the Govern
| or of Ohio, is the daughter OF Mr.. Saxton,
| who in bis time was wealthy DanKer o.
| Canton Ohio. For many years she has been
| an invalid. She is the trusted political ad-
/ visor OF her husband.
| WILLIAM J. GAYxoR, the leading lawyer
| of Brooklyn bar. was the youngest man
| in his profession who ever received Zee OF
| xiOO coo for a single case at law. Thls wa
a baking powder case two years ago. de
was newspaper reporter fifteen years ago.
THE final settlement of the affairs of the
late samuel j. Randall shows that the valus
of the estate left by him is S759. "a, which Is
NOT enough to pay the bills OF the physi'
| clans who attended him during his last III
mess. OF this amount <589.74 was due by
| the Government for salary, leaving th-
total value of his property 5000 at the tim
of his death. This is remar xable showing
for a man who spent thirty years OF his iift
in the most responsible positions in the puo
| lie service.
PApEREwsKI was invited to tea by New
YORK millionaire and the pianist coldly re
ierred his intended host to his agent. Wner
| the agent was seen the first question n
asked was: II suppose Mrs. v. win expec
Paderewski to piaye" II suppose so'
s.Then M. Paderewski will accept your invi
tation as an engagement" 'Oh, very wei.
if YOU prefer to put it that way" returne.
the millionaire "What are the terms!
ssThree thousand dollars for one piece an
NJ Paderewski will consent to single 81
corer The terms were not accepted.