The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-10-03
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

General Lord woiseley is an amateur arr
stsof great ability.
Ambassador Eustis Is one Of the lates. men
In Paris 90 learn bicycling.
The German Emperor mas limited his cha ~
lain 10 twcnty-minutc discourscs.
sheffield England, pays the Duke of No.-
folk rents at the rate Of $500, 900 Il year.
Senator Knute Nelson oi Minnesota. oc.
casionally amuses himself cultivating n iHs'n
Of 400 acres.
The recent visit of Kaiser william To- Lori
Lonsdalc, the British peer, cos. the latter. il
is said, 5000, 900.
John T.. Hudson. President Of the Bell
Telephone Company, is one OF the best Greek
scholars in America.
Mrs Sallio Hogg, wife oi cx-Govcrnor
Hogg, OF Texas, died suddenly az the home
Of her nephew in Pueblo. Col
Mrs. Mary Daily Crook. widow of General
George Crook, the Indian fighter, died IN
Oakland, Nd, of heart failure
An English theosophist announces that
w. W. Astor, the American millionaire. has
become convert to that belief
Christopher Columbus, u direct descen-
dant of the great Genopse navigator. Is I'm
Cuba, serving as an officer I'm the SPANISH
army.
Bouguerau has signed his name to 42g
canvases. This number. Of course, does not
fucludc sketches aud other miscellaneous
work.
Although Rev. Or. Newman Hall the IA.
nous dissenting minister OF England j. sey-
enty-ilve years old. he walks dozen or moro
miles every sunday to church.
DIR. Conan Doyle. the English novelist Is
an extremely systematic man, and pnetcS
over his mantclpiccc n table ot th" principal
things he intends 10 accomplish each half
year.
The founder OF Che Geneva Rcd Gross So-
cicty, Henry Dunant. has sp"nt all he hal ga
the promotion of his plans. and H. now ut the
age Of siNty-scven In poverty that borders on
starvation.
IA great. big. gool-uaturoj man. Sis icct
six. weighing $50 pounds and fond ui talk
ing, Is the description OF III Hung Chang,
the Chinese Niceroy, given by John W. Fos-
tcr's Secretary.
The death in Washington oi the late Pro-
lessor &. Y. Riley. cntomulOgist oi the Agri
cultural Department, Wus caused hyH bicycle
accident. His fame as naturalist wns
known the world over.
Mrs. J. II. Brown. OF Springfield. H., dicd
at Duluth at the age of scvcnty-twu. Shc
was one of the historical characters Of hit
nuis. She was "a friend ol Abraham Lincoln
to whom she was distantly related.
NJ. Alvarez the French tenor. ha. been en-
gagged for three years 10y Sir Augustus llur.
ria. the London imprcssario, at a salary per
month during the season. Of $4,000 the first
year. $4,000 the second, and $1,000 the third
Ambassador Bavarls family have been
holding office continually under the United
States Government for 100 ycars, Iamc-
Bayard, the Ambassadors graudiathor. hay-
ing been elected delegate To- the Federal
Congress In 1896.
new use has been found for British peer,
by employing them ~ Mayors Tor towns and
boroughs. Warwick has chosen the Earl of
Warwick. Sheffield the Duke oT Norfolk. and
now Longton, in Stailordshire, is about to
elect the Duke OF Sutherland
The Spanish Duke Of Alba. now visiting
this country. holds six dHkedoms and twelve
marquisatcs. He il nine times u grandcc of
Spain and fourteen times a count. He H.
the nephew of cN-Empross Eugenic, ana was
a great fayoritc with Napoleon Ill.