The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-09-06
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

The President OF Chile gets SI5 900 year.
BISMARCK has is2 crosses and decorations.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES has Just celebra-
ted his eighty-iith birthday.
KING BurARIrARI, of the Gilbert Islands,
is a great monarch weight, 3i5 pounds.
ii1g oldest prslats III fhe cnurch OF ing
land is the Bishop OF Chichester, who Is
ninety-one.
DIR. vIRcHow. II is said, has fallen into the
habit OF taking only three hours sleep out of
the twenty-four
Ir Is one OF the odd habits OF Dr. Blackle.
the distinguished Scotch philosopher, TO
wear indoors broad-brimmed hat.
SECRETARY GRESHAM. who IL rarely seen
without u cigar in his mouth. is said TO allow
himself twenty cigars, Of the best graue, u
day.
ROBERT BLAINE, brother OF the late James
G. Blaine. has been appointed to n 5000
clerkship in the Library OF Congress, Wash
ington.
GENERAL o. q. Howard is having q house
built overlooking Lake Champlan at Bur
lington, where he will reside after his retire
ment from the army.
II is now rumored that childess Russell
Sage will build a monument 10 himself by
leaving in his will a fortune OF over S25, ,O0O,-
900 in philanthropic bequests.
A Static OF Prince Luitpod. 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 STELLwAa Won CARTON, the
famous oculist OF the University OF Vienna.
has retired owing TO old age. Many Amerl-
cans have studied under the professor.
Ex-GovERNoR SpRAouE, 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 Narragansett
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 It is no
one has ever had the courage to ask.
LoRp BREADALBASE is credited with own
ing the most magnificent residence In Scot
land. His lordship can ride 100 miles west
from Taymouth Park to Armaddy Castle, on
the Argyllshire coast, without setting hoof
OF his possessions.
GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN started In life as
house mover He made his first stake in q
contract for 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 q
beggar on the street without giving him a
nickel. disposing thus OF the small change
that most men spend on themselves.
W. c. HowELLs, father OF W. ID. 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
MIN United States Consul az Quebec, where
he served four years Tie was also Consul
at Toronto for i've years. He served In tho
Ohio State Senate In lS64-5.