The Opelousas courier., 1893-04-15
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GLADSTONE smokes an occasional cigar
cite.
TIE salary of the King of Greece is $500,
900 a year.
LORD SALISBURY is the first British
Premier who has set foot on Australian
soil.
The oldest American citizen now in pub
lie life is Senator Morrill,, Of Vermont, who
was born in 1910.
MILLIONAIRE JOHN HUNTINGTON, of
Cleveland. Ohio. left over ST. 500, 900 to
science and charity.
WHEN Governor LewelIing, of Kansas,
was seventeen years old he shoveled dirt as a
laborer in the employ of an Iowa railroad.
RUDYARD K1PLING's father is a man Of
great ability and holds an important posi-
ton as art director of an East Indian
museum.
The will of the late James G. Blaine con-
veys all the estate unreservediy to Mrs.
Blaine. The property is estimated at about
ST. 900, 900.
PREsIDENT-ELECT CLEVELAND has offered
a gold medal as a prize to the winner of an
international chess contest, to be held in
New York next May or June.
The late Senator Kenna, of West Vir-
glnla, is said to have died poor, and an at
tempt is being made to secure a place for his
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ington.
j. NJ. BARRIE, the Scotch novelist, is a
little man with a large head and luminous
eyes. He is one of the most modest and diff
dent Of British authors and quite unspoiled
by success.
GENERAL GEORGE w. JONES, of Florida;
James w. Bradbury of Maine, and ex-
Governor Fetch, of Michigan, are the only
living ex-members of the United States
Senate in 1848.
JAMES A. BAILEY, the circus manager,
began selling epples and peanuts, then be-
came the owner of a side show, and went on
until he is now the foremost man in his line
OF public amusement.
EDWIN HOLMES, the discoverer of the
comet Yn Andromeda, which has attracted
much attention during the last three or four
months, is an amateur astronomer, living
IN Isiln9ton, London.
DocToR W. W. ALLEY, who died at
Moravia, N. Y, aged ninety-one years, was
the Oldest homeopathic physician in the
country. He had been in continuous prac- /
tice for sixty-six years.
MRS. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT is a good
friend of Marshall r. Wilder, and her hus.
band gives him an annual salary of $4,000, |
IN return for which the little humorist gives
occasional entertainments In different chill |
dren's hospitals.
JAMES WHITcoMB RILEY derives his larg.
est profits from England. The publishers
there have brought out eight editions of his
poems and pay him by mere courtesy a
larger royalty than he gets at home, where
ne is protected by copyright.
The Khedive of Egypt, who is making the
trouble in that country, is a youth
of nineteen. who was taken from school last
year in Vienna, Austria, to succeed his
father. The wonder is, therefore, that he
has not before now got to loggerheads with
his British guardians.
MRS. PEARY, who shares in the fame Of
her husband, Lieutenant PearY, the famous
of Greenland, said in conversation
A few days ago that she thought she felt the
cold more hare during CDR recent siege of
severe weather than she did last year up
a zero temperature is considered mod
rate.
The Rev, Byron Sunderland, D. D., has
received congratulations on the com.
oletion of his fortieth year of service as pas
or Of the First Presbyterian Church Of
y a%shington, which was attended by Presf-
lent and Mrs. Cleveland during their resi-
Ience in Washington, and With which 1t ia
* ected they will again become connected.