Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-09-07
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Mr.. FRoUDE. the English historian, Is q
most enthusiastic yachtsman.
REV. JAMES SPURRELL, of England, gave
81, ,l30, 600 tt charity last year.
NINE. PATHS annual income for some
years past has been not less than 5000, 900.
THE Baroness Burdett-Coutts possesses,
among other honors, the freedom of the city
of London.
EDITOR CHARLES A. DANA, of tho New York
Sun, has Just celebrated tho seventy-flfth an
niversary of his birth.
The young Chinese Emperor's knowledge
of English leads him to encourage long talks
with foreign diplomats.
PROFESSOR ELY, of the State University OF
Wisconsin, has been put on trial for teaching
students socialistic doctrines.
IT was an electric car that startled the
horse Of the Archduke of Austria the other
day, causing the Dukes death.
AMONG Father Kneipp's patients, at Woer-
1shofen, Bavaria, at present, Is DR.. Koch, who
Is trying the priests water cure.
AN American, John Hays Hammond, Is tho
engineer of the British South African Com
pany, and receives a salary of SEC, 600 year.
THE oldest of the Forty French Immortals
is NJ. Begouve, who is nearly eighty-eight.
Paul Bourget Is the youngest, and he Is fol-
ty-one.
HLOHENCE NlHHTISdALE, WHO Is now sew
enty-four years of age, Is in very poor
health. She lives in g very quiet spot
In the west of London.
BICYCLIsT ZIMMERMAN has q great heart.
The doctors say that 1t is two inches longer
than the average mans, and that his endur-
ance Is due to this fact.
BURTON C. Cook, the nominator of Abra-
ham Lincoln for the presidency In 1864, died
few days ago at Evanston, III. He was
born in Pittsford, N. Y, in 1919.
THE most expensive shooting box on earth
belongs TO George Gould, and is In the Cats
kills of New York. There are foxes and
buffaloes and pigeons and pheasants galore.
THE Mikado Of Japan has never been will
ingly photographed or even sketched. 1t Is
a capital offense for native to make any
kind of a pictorial representation Of him, Us
1t 1s regarded as grave 1ndignity.
WILLIAM c. VAN EoRN, the President OF
the Canadian Pacific Railway, who has been
made q knfght-CommaEder of the Order OF
st. Michael and ST. George, is n native OF H.
iinois, and began life as telegraph opera
tor at the age of thirteen.
AFTER the close of his term Of office Gov
ernor Northern, of Georgia, will devote his
time to the business of attracting immigra-
ton to Georgia. He was the principal of q
school before his election, and recently de-
clined IN offer to take charge OF Southern
college.
JUDGE ELI AYLEswoRTH, President of the
Westminster Bank, of Providence, r. l.,
who lately died at the age OF ninety-twO,
had been a banker fifty years. In a little box
in the bank he kept all his life the first four
silver dollars he ever earned. He got them
by pitching hay and hoeing potatoes.
Francis MARION CRAWFORD Is n thrifty
literary man. He has been spending "a gooi
deal of time in Washington lately educating
Congressman about 800, 900 claim in
which he is Interested. Now he has helpei
pay his board bill there by writing his i'm
presstons of the city for one Of the big maya
zines.
HERR KRUPP the great gun founder, has
commissioned Munich sculptor to model
statue of the Chinese Vceroy, Ii Hung
Chang, which he means to present when
completed to the Asiatic diplomatist as
token of respect for the pains taken by him
to introduce European ordnance into the
Chinese army and navy.
ANDREW FRANKLIN, Of Burlington, Kan,
Is one of the Oldest pensioners on the rolls
of the War Department, having been born
on Christmas Day, in 1871. He fought in
the war of 1912, in two Indian wars, and
served as a teamster In the Civil War. IN
spite of his 103 years, Franklin, it Is said,
"ean do more chores than most men at
sixty"