The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-11-28
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Queen victoria's daily income is $4,000.
Gladstone will spend tho winter at Monte
Carlo.
General schofeld has concluded to return
to Chicago to live.
Senator Hill, Of New York, will lecture on
Liberty" in ten cities
Lieutenant Perry announces that he has
learned the Eskimo language.
Richard Watson Glider Is probably tho
best known OF New York's poets.
J. VI. Coe Forsaythe. tho future king Of
the Cannibal islands. is worth $4,000, 900.
IL Is said that the Prince OF Wales receives
200 begging letters, on an average, every
day.
Henry watterson. editor OF the Louisville
Courier Journal, Is going to Europe TO write
q life OF Abraham Lincoln.
Count Tolstoi recently refused two big
offers for story he had written, and gave II
to magazine for nothing.
Sir Agernon Borthwick, editor OF the
London Morning Post, Is the first journalist
who has been raised to the British peerage.
Governor Brown, OF Kentucky proposes
to move TO Louisville aud engage In the
practice OF law at the expiration OF his term
ofofflce.
Count Badenyi the new Prime Minister OF
Austria, Is descended from IN Italian cook.
Kings OF Poland. He has not hair on his
head.
The poet OF the Fifty-fourth Congress is
Rowland Blennerhlsset Mahany. from the
Thirty-second New York District. lie Is n
native OF Buffalo aud has had stiff struggle
with fortune.
s. NJ. Inman. Of Atlanta. Chairman OF the
Finance Committee Of the Southern States
and Cotton Exposition. has donated $50 00)
TO pay the floating debt, and the other mem.
bers paid the other $4,000.
Ex-Empress Eugene, in her latest will.
has constituted herself the godmother OF all
male children born In France on the birth
day OF her son. The number amounts to
1884, all OF whom she has remembered in her
will.
Marion Butler. Of North Carolina, young
est Of the members Of the new Senate. IL
thirty-two years old. His father was an ex-
tensive stakeholder, and he was reared on
plantation, but the war deprived him Of his
family possessions.
james b. Garfield, who was elected State
Senator from his fathers old district in
Ohio. was nominated on July 2. the four
teenth anniversary OF his fathers assassina-
tion. He IL thirty-three years old, and close
ly resembles the late President.
Frank 8. Black, Representative In Con.
! gress from the Nineteenth New York Dis
! trict, began life as farmland and now
looks like a college professor. Heis Maine
man by birth, and taught school after he
| gave up farm work. Later he was news6
paper reporter. and then he studied law, n
| profession in which he has been successful.
General Duchesne. commander OF the
! French army that routed the Hovas in NADIA.
gascar, won the Cross Of the Legion OF Honor
| at Solferino, and IL now nity-eigbt years old.
He distinguished himself in the war OF 1870
and in the Tonquln campaign. At present
he Is on the high tide OF popular esteem and
II he desires may perhaps succeed Boulanger
in the role OF the imam on horseback
]. Frank Hanley, from the Ninth Indiana
District, is the log-cabin man OF the Fifty.
| fourth Congress. He was born thirty-two
years ago, amid the forests OF Champaign
County. This was a sparsely settled section,
and his parents were very poor. They had
no neighbors nearer than four miles. When
six years old his father purchased "History
Of the Civil War" and from this the boy
learned TO read