The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-12-04
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Queen victoria's daily income is $4,000.
Gladstone will spend the winter at Monte
Carlo.
General Schoneld has concluded to return
to Chicago to live.
Senator Hill, OF New York. will lecture on
Liberty" in ten cities.
Lieutenant Perry announces TINT he has
learned the Eskimo language.
Richard Watson Glider is probably the
best known Of New York's poets.
]. nj. Coe Forsaythe, the future king ol
the Cannibal islands, Is worth S2,000,00o.
1t 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
life Of Abraham Lincoln.
Count Tolstoi recently refused two big
offers for story he had written, aud gave II
to magazine for nothing.
Sir Algernon Borthwlck, editor of the
London Morning Post, Is the first Journalist
who has been raised to tho British peerage.
Governor Brown, OF kentucky, proposes
to move to Louisville and engage in tho
practice OF law at the expiration OF his term
Of office.
Count Badenyi, the new Prime Minister oil
.
who was In the service OF ono OF tho last
Kings OF Poland. He has not hair on his
head.
The poet of the Fifty-fourth Congress Is
Rowland Blennerhqsset Mahany, from the
Thirty-second Now York District. He Is a
native Of Buffalo, and has had q stiff struggle
with fortune.
s. N. Inman, of Atlanta, Chairman OF the
Finance Committee OF the Southern States
nj = ma
to pay the floating debt, and the other mem.
bers paid the other s50,000.
Ex-Empress Eugenie, In her latest will,
has constituted herself tho 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 ey,
tensive Shareholder, and he was reared on a
family possessions.
James B. Garfield, who was elected State
Senator from his fathers old district in
Ohio. was nominated on July 2, tho four
teenth anniversary OF his fathers assasslna-
tion. He is thirty-three years old, and close
ly resembles the late President
Frank s. Black, Representative In Con,
gress from the Nineteenth New York Dis
trict, began life rs farmland and now
looks like college professor. Heis AIainC
man by birth, and taught school after he
gave up farm work. Later he WAS news
paper reporter, and then he studied law, q
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 Soiferino, and Is now flity-eight years old
He distinguished himself in tho war OF 1876
and In the Tonquln campaign. At present
he is on the high tide Of popular esteem and
IL he desires may perhaps succeed Boulangel
In the role OF the imam on horseback"
J. Frank Hanley, from the Ninth indiana
District, Is the log-cabin man of tho Fifty
fourth Congress. He was born thirty-twc
years ago, amid the forests OF Champaign
County. This was sparsoly settled section
ana hts parents were very poor. They had
no neighbors nearer than four miles. Whor
six years old his futher purchased "Histor,
OF tho Civil War" and from this the bo,
learned to read