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

Queen victorias daily income is $4,000.
Gladstone will spend the winter at Monte
Carlo
General schofield has concluded to return
to Chicago TO live.
Senator Hill, ofNew York. will lecture on
Liberty" In ten cities.
Lieutenant Perry announces that he has
learned the Eskimo language.
Richard Watson Glider is probably the
best known Of New Yorks poets.
J. VI. Coo Forsaythe, the future king Of
the Cannibal islands, is worth "a, 900, 900.
II 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
| a life OF Abraham Lincoln.
Count Tolstoi recently refused two big
offers for n story he had written and gave Il
| TO magazine for nothing.
Sir Algernon Borthwick, editor OF tho
London Morning Post, is the first journalist
! who has been raised 10 the British peerage
Governor Brown, OF Kentucky, proposes
to move 20 Louisville aud engage In the
practice OF law at the expiration Of his term
ofoffice.
Count Badenyi, the new Prime Minister OF
Austria, is descended from m Italian cook,
who was In the service OF ono Of tho last
Kings OF Poland. He has not q hair on his
head.
The poet OF the Fifty-fourth Congress Is
Rowland Bennerhl lsset Mahany, from the
Thirty-second New York District. lie Is n
native Of Buffalo, aud has had stiff struggle
with fortune.
$. NJ. Inman, of Atlanta. Chairman Of the
Finance Committee OF the Southern States
and Cotton Exposition. has donated $4,000
TO pay the floating debt, and the other MEM
bers paid the other 200.
Ex-Empress Eugene, in her latest will.
has constituted herself the godmother OF ali
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, is
thirty-two years old His father was an ex-
tensive STAKEHOLDER, and he was reared on a
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 July2 the four
teenth anniversary Of his fathers assassina-
tion. He is thirty-three years old aud close
ly resembles the late President.
Frank 4. Black, Representative in Com
gress from the Nineteenth New York Dis.
trlct, began lie as farmland and now
looks like n college professor. Heis Maine
man by birth, and taught school after he
gave up farm work. Later he was a news6
paper reporter. and then he studied law,
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 is now llfty-eight years old.
He distinguished himself In the war OF 1870
and In. sIa..I ..aats
no is on tho high tide of popular esteem and
II he desires may perhaps succeed Boulanger
in the role OF the imam on horseback"
j. 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 Civi! War" and from this the boy
learned TO read.