Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-11-01
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Senator PETER has bought a Kansas news
paper.
The value of Professor Huxley's estate is
less than $40, 900.
Emperor William H.. Of Germany, has
caught the bicycle fever.
The Duke Of Norfolk has been elected
Mayor Of Sheffield, England
Ex-Speaker Reed worked of thirty pounds
of flesh last summer on bicycle
The largest landed estate is that of the
Car Nicholas OF Russia, 100, ,0J),00) acres.
The Oldest lawyer is Judge Karl Slegmaun,
Of Uelzen. Germany, 102 years of age. He
practicedSuntil 1892.
A Washington paper asserts that Charles
A. Dana, OF the New York Sun. uses his
finger to paste with.
The Emperor of Japan is an all-round
sportsman, devoted to riding, shooting. ten
mis-, fishing, billiards and football.
The Duke of Sutherland sends his two
little sons, aged seven and five, to the village
public school, with the children of his ten
ants.
Maria Dagmar, Dowager Empress Of Rus
sia, who is said to be actual ruler, is yet
omparatively young, being only forty-seven
years OF age.
EA-tultl bl IOilCe InOnllS DyEUeS, OIL
New York City, sailed for Europe to consult
bankers about forming an international de-
tective agency.
Canovas del Castillo the Spanish Premier,
is sixty-tlve years old. He entered journal
ism when he became of age, and politics
three years later.
Louis Michel has a scheme OF founding
home in England for political refugees from
the Continent out OF the profits Of an Amerl
can lecturing tour.
George Fred. Williams. the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, is
said to be the "Original mugwump," He is
forty-three years Of age
A successful operation for the removal OF
n cataract has been performed on the eyes of
General W. Jones, of Dubuque, Iowa.
ex-United States Senator. who is ninety
years old.
Itis reported that Mrs. Hearst, the wealthy
California widow. has given 915, 900 to the
cause Of free Cuba, and that the famous
yacht Vamoose is to be fitted out as a Cuban
blockade runner and privateer.
DR.. Theodore R. Timby, the inventor of
the turbine wheel, is now living in Chicago
At seventy-twO years of age he is as hale
and active as most men of fifty. DR.. Timby
is native OF Duchess County, New York.
Prince Bismarck keeps weighing ma
chine in his bedroom, and weighs himself
every day when he gets up, noting down the
weight in register. In 1879 he weighed
242 pounds, but latterly 202 is all that he
gets.
NJ. Horon, the great French detective, now
about to retire, will be long remembered as
the man who performed the daring and diff
ilcult feat of safely plotting the heir of the
Russian throne, in disguise, through the
nihilist dens OF Paris.
Lord Dysart, who has a rent roll OF $7je,-
900 year, is descended from Will Murray,
the ''whipping boy Of King Charles THE
| lad deputsd to receive corporal punishment
whenever his youthful royal master had
been guilty OF misbehavior
The late General Malone was a dyspeptic
before the war, and his physician said that
| he must have fresh milk every day. Wher
| he went into the Confederate army he tool
a cow with him, and Notwithstanding the
terrible fighting he did, he never lost thai
COW nor missed his fresh milk diet