Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-03-01
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

ToLsroI learned Hebrew after he was fifty,
EUGEEE ARAM is a member Of the California
Senate.
THE German Kaiser is showerlng favors
upon the Bismarcks.
MISS SUSAN b. ANTHONY has Just passed her
seyenty-hfth birthday.
THE poet William Morris Is also a socialist,
a shoDkCeper and cooperative manuiac-
turer.
THE late Oliver Wendell Holmes, the fa-
nous poet and prose writer, left an estate of
$72l17.
The Duchess of Leinster. one of the great
est beauties of the day, is dying in England
of consumption.
COLONEL HAMILTON ROBERTSON. now
eighty-fve years of age, is the Oldest Odd
Fellow In Indiana.
GOVERNOR JAMES H. BUDD, of California,
walks in his sleep. He has been somnam-
bulist since boyhood.
JOHN WALTER, of the London Times, who
died recently. left a personal estate OF Sl,-
500. 900, in which all his children share.
President FAURE, of France, in an address
to the Diplomatic Corps, said that he would
devote his efforts to maintain international
peace.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY HERBERT extolled
Lincoln. the martyred President, in a speech
before the Pennsylvania Scotch-lrish Society
at Philadelphia.
SENIOR LUIS SAENz PENA, who has just re-
signed the Presidency of the Argentine Re-
public. is seventy-three years old, lawyer
and wealthy man.
KING HuMBERT. of italy, said recently to
n company of editors: "Gentlemen, have
often said that | should wish to be Journal
ist were | not king.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL next to the
Younger Pitt, became Chancellor Of the Brit
ish Exchequer at an earlier age than any
other statesman of the present century.
SENATOR MANDERsoN corroborates the re-
port that he will become the general sollc-
itor for the Burlington Il Missouri River sys-
tenn after his retirement from the Senate.
DWIGHT L. MOODY, the evangelist, celebrat-
ed his fifty-eighth birthday recently In San
Antonio, Texas. On the same day, ms
mother. Mrs. Betsey Holton Moody, celebrat-
ed her ninetieth birthday.
E.A. ABBEY, the American artist, has ar
rived in New York. his fourth trip to the
United States in the last sixteen years. He
comes to finish contract made in 1890 to
paint the ceiling pieces for the Boston Pub
lie Library.
GILBERT, the lbrettist, is a big athletic fell
low hasty in movement, quick in speech and
violent in temper. He has detective eye
and smokes cigar at full speed. FortWenty
years. at least. one of his works was perpetu'
ally on the London stage.
A NEWSPAPER opposed to Gladstone. not
long ago set ahoat the story that he had cut
off one OF his fingers while indulging in his
healthy practice of chopping down trees
I This is now denied, and Gladstone says that
he lost the finger fifty years ago, while care
lessly loading gun.
The late Isaac p Gray, who died while
Minister to Mexico seemingly had pre-
monition of his DEATH Two weeks before ne
was in Union City. Ind. While there he had
his lot in the cemetery changed for Larger
one. He superintended the work personally
and gave minute directions for the grading
ETC., and marked the site of his own grave
for central monument He appeared seri.
Gus, and his conduct and actions inspired
great uneasiness among his friends