Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1893-04-12
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has a wonderful
memory.
PRESIDENT NUNEz, of Colombia, has re-
fused a pension Of $50, 600 year.
ISAAC PUsEY GRAY, the new Minister 70
Mexico, il SIX feet ten inches tall and weighs
$50 pounds.
THE full name of the Brazilian Minister
at Washington is General D!oaizlo Evange-
lstade Castro Cerqueira.
WILFRED YoUNG, "A Schoolbov, is paid
$500 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 tho
close OF the school year liberates the call
lren.
Ex-SECRETARY TRACY says that, in addl-
ton to the hard labor an ! constant anxiety,
his cabinet life cost him about ?DOJO
year over and above his salary.
GOVERNOR Roswell P. FLOWER, of New
York, got his first start in lite from money
earned as clerk in the Watertown POST
office. He rec 3ived 500 year.
VERDI received for "Fa staff" his new
opera, So, 0D0 down an | will get forty per
cant. of the publishing an performing roy
atty rights. Bot) got $1,000 for the libretto
In many section, there is doubt as to the
way in which the name o Attornev-Heneral
Olnev ought to be pronounced. In Rho te
Island, the chief seat of the family, they
call it OA-nV.
THE Russian oil kings the Nobel Brothers,
are really enterprsins SwedeS, who are
said to dispose of upward of sixty mil ZION
gallons of Kerosene annually, an always
tor ready cash.
SENATOR MAMIE, of Montana, is an
Engishman by birth an a telegraph oper-
atOr by occupation. He is only thirtynlne
years of age, and is the youngest member IN
the Senate chamber.
PROFESSOR N,RgHOw, son of the emf.
nent cholera expert OF Germany who is in
this country, said in an interview on ch"1e't
that the principal preclution was To observe
care in what is eaten.
NJ. CAvAIGNAC. who is lo)kel on, in the
light of recent events as possibly the com
ing President of Frame, is sail to be Of
irish descent. He is deScen lie from the
MacMurrou,h Kavanaghs, who were kings
OF leinster.
PROFESSOR BRIGGS, in alition to his
duties as profesSo' of biblical theology in
Union Theological Seminary, New YORK
City, has now been assigned to the clar OF
systematic theology, maze vacant ny Tue
death of Professor Worcester
NINE. NAVARRO better known as Mary
Anderson is employing her leisure at Tun'
bridge Wells. Englan in writing her re-
mniscences. These will, of course, incIu lie
her recolectionS of the stage toh IN
America and there. Miss Anlerson'S favor
lite relaxation waen travelling is chess, an
care is always taken that a chess outht Is
provided on the train by watch she travels.
IN all probability the creates monarcn,
as lar as size goes, who rules in the worlds
the King of the Gilbert Islan!s, Teibur.
mon, who weighs 800 poun Is. His son, tne
Crown Prince, is still heavier A dau 5ht1r
Of His Majesty, only eight years old weIga'
10 pounds. Tue King has an America
co)k, AMI lives in comfortable tasalon,
as all his subjects ply poll tax OF 81 eacl.
GENERAL THOMAS r. ECKERr, the new
President of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, is one of the Oldest telegram
operators in the world He learnsI how 10
handle the key in lSi9, md has been actiN',y
engaged in the business almost ever sin'e
During the war he was in charge OF the
military telegraph, an for Snort time was
Assistant Secretary of War. He hls been
with the Western Union since 1861.