Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-09-14
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

THE President of Chile gets els, 900 year.
BISMARCK has 4S2 crosses and decorations.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES has just cele bra
ted his eighty-fifth birthday.
KING BUTARITARI, of the Gilbert Islands,
Is great monarch weight, 345 pounds.
THE oldest prelate in the Church of Eng
land is the Bishop of Chichester, who Is
ninety-one.
On. VIRcHow, 1t Is said, his fallen into the
habit OF taking only three hours sleep out o.
the twenty-four.
IT il one of the odd habits of DR.. Blackie,
the distinguished Scotch philosopher, to
wear indoors q broad-brimmed hat.
SECRETARY GRESHAM. who is rarely seen
without a cigar in his mouth. is said to allow
himself twenty cigars, Of the best grade, q
day.
ROBERT BLAINE, brother of the late James
G. Blaine, has been appointed to a 5000
clerkship in the Library of Congress, Wash
ington.
GENERAL o. o. HOWARD is having house
built overlooking Lake Champlain at Bur-
lington, where he will reside after his retire
ment from the army.
IT Is now rumored that childless Russell
Sage will build a monument to himself by
leaving in his will fortune of over S23, 00O,-
600 in philanthropic requests.
4 STATUE of Prince LuitpoId, Regent of
Bavaria, has been torn down from a park in
Garmisch and carried away. This Is said to
be sign of his growing popularity
THE German Emperor. in spite of his lame
and useless arm, is an excellent horseman.
Attendants have TO help him into the saddle
but once there he can master any horse.
PROFESSOR STELLwAG Won CARTON, the
famous ocuIist of the University of Vienna.
has retired owing to old age. Many Ameri
cans have studied undor the professor.
Ex-Governor SPRAGUE, OF Rhode Island,
is now living in a small cottage near the
beach at Narragansett Pier, and discharges
the duties of Chief of Police at NarragGnsett
Pier.
IT is said that Senator Dolph, of Oregon,
never smiles. In the whole course of his
service in the Senate nobody has seen his
eye light up or his lip quiver. Why 1t Is no
one has ever had the courage to ask.
LORD BREADALBASE is credited with own
ing the most magnificent residence in Scot
land. His lordship can ride 100 miles west
from plymouth Park 10 Armaddy Castle, on
the Argyllshiro coast, without setting hoof
off his possessions.
GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN started IN life as
house mover. He made his first stake in
contract COR moving large number ofstores
and other buildings from the banks Of the
Erie Canal. the job being made necessary by
the widening of that waterway.
REPRESENTATIVE TALBERT, of South Caro-
lima, occupies u unique position among Con-
gressmen in that he neither goes to the the
atre, drinks, smokes, chews or plays cards.
He has a habit, however, of never passing
beggar on the street without giving him
nickel. disposing thus of the small change
that most men spend on themselves.
w. C. HowELLs, father of ". D. Howells,
the novelist, died at jefferson, Ohio, of pa
ralysis. He WAS eighty eight years old. He
was engaged in newspaper work from 1880
until 1874, when President Grant appointed
him United States Consul at Quebec, where
he served four years. He was also Consul
at Toronto for five years. He served In the
Ohio State Senate In 1865.