Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-04
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

PATTI. the cantatrice, is now in her fifty
third year.
KING HUMBERr opened the italian Parlia-
ment with a ten minutes speech.
Ex-GovERNoR ALBEIT. of New jersey left
fortune estim lted at $500, 000
DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY prides himself on
being able to write three-volume novel in
five weeks.
IT is said that President Cleveland is plan
ming to visit Europe at the expiration of his
official term.
LORD WoLsELY, who is now field mar
shall In the British Army, has received his
baton from the Queens own hands.
ERAsTUs F. BEADLE, the publisher of dime
novels, died at his country home in Coopers-
town, N. Y, aged seventy four years.
ALTHOUGH Jules Verne's works have earned
untold fortunes for his publishers, they have
brought TO the novelist only $4,000 year on
an average.
PROFESSOR FREDERICK W. BoATwR1GHr,
who has just been elected President of Rich
mond (Va.) College, is only twenty-seven
years Of age.
CONGRESSMAN HARRISON, Of Alabama, is so
very like DR.. Parkhurst In face, form and
manner that he might very easily be mis-
taken for the great reformer.
THE death is announced in England of the
Rev. Solomon Caesar Malan, the greatest
1iuSulSl Oh the age. lie was thoroughly
familiar with more than eighty languages.
N. A. MOTLEY, Missouri Republican. will
be the youngest member of the next House
of Representatives, He is twenty-eight years
old. He Is a lawyer, and has been school
teacher.
JAMES WHITcoMB RILEY has made himself
extremely popular with the children of the
country by his poetry, and he gets many
letters from them, not infrequently asking
for pictures.
AT Dresden recently great public meet
ing resolved that an imposing monument
should lie erected to Prince Bismarck, and
tina: the cost should be betrayed by volun-
tary contributions.
F1CE-ADMIRAL BRINE, retired, served fifty
years under the British flag. His first en-
gagements were against Chinese pirates. He
has done service in Mandalay and on the
east coast of Afrlca.
PRINCE KUNG, who has been put In supreme
command in China, Is said to be a physical
wreck from opium smoking, to which he
took to alleviate his grief. when his enemies
caused his overthrow some time ago.
QUEEN VICTORIA has seen four Cars of
Russia, three Emperors Of Germany, two
Kings of Italy and number of minor Kings
in Italy, several sovereigns in Spain, and a
King, an Emperor and several Republics in
France.
CHANCELLOR Won HoHENLOHE is the smalles
occupant of the ministerial benches. He
affords striking contrast to his predecess-
ors. He wears Il black coat and looks like a
spry, hale English country gentleman rather
than German minister.
WHEN DR.. Doyle was about to undertake
| his lecture tour in this country the late
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote to him
"When you come to America, call on me-
My house Is the second door on the left hand
after leaving San Francisco"
ROBERT BUCHANAN, the English author.
will write during 1895 under novel condi-
lions. He failed not long ago for S75, 900
| and judge in the Bankruptcy Court has
pay half of all he earns above $500 a year
to his creditors till they shall have received
thiry-seven cents on the dollar.