The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-05-09
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

The Queen Of Holland is visiting in Lon.
don.
The Prince Of Wales has a peculiar habit
OF winkng his left eye.
King Humbert and Rudyarl Kipling arc
both said to be accomplished cooks
Mien Gey Ching. attachc Of the Chinese
Embassy at Washington. rides u bicycle.
Edward Burne-J ones, the well-known Eng.
lish artist, acquired his art without n teacher.
Gustav Freytag, the distinguished German
author, died at Wiesbaden a few days since,
Of pneumonia.
General Campos. header of the Spanish
troops in Cuba IL sixty-one years old AMI has
been soldier for nearly forty years.
Prince Bismarck has very loud. harsh
voice, and generally speaks Ia "A dogmatic,
dictatorial way that admits VI no contrudic-
tion.
The Emperor Of Germany, 1t IL said, has
decided to honor Bismarck by having his
head stamped on future issue Of German
coins.
Ian Maclaren, Scotchman, is the liter
ary lion OF London. He writes delightful
short stories, each of which IL rs mcaty rs
the average 40O-page novel.
M. Felix Fauro Ia to visit Algeria after
Parliament adjourns. He will be the only
French ruler, save Napoleon ILL.,. who has
ever set foot In the province.
Doctor Frederick Andres, who was the
INST practicing physician to locate west of
the Mississippi River, died In Minneapolis,
MINI, few days ago, at the ago OF ninety
two years.
recent account OF the Chinese Emperor
describes him as small and delicate with
iair skin, beautiful eyes and a good fore
head. He looks like lad OF sixteen or
seventeen and speaks like youth OF that
age.
John ID. Rockefeller. the head OF the Stand
ard Oil trust, is credited bv writer in tho
Boston Commercial bulletin with having re-
marked while ago that his great ambition
IN lie IL to accumulate a fortune Of $500.
900.
Count Won Reventlow, the Danish Minister
al Washington, has been appointed Minister
for Denmark at Rome. NJ. q. Bruin. the Sec
retary Of the Danish Legation at Paris. sue.
ceeds Count Won leventlow as Danish Minis
ter AT Washington.
Vaszary, the Primate OF the Hungarian
Church, Is a man OF the most simple tastes
When he was elected he was "a poor Bene.
dictine monk. He drove to the Primate's
Paiace at drau in public cab, carrying on
his knees cage containing his pet canary.
Marie Louise's son by her Chamberlain,
Count Neippurg, whom she married after
Napoleons death, has just died near Vienna
He was Prince William OF Montenuovo, an
ltalianized form OF NeuberR (Neipperg), and
was seventy-four years old. He survived
his brother, the King of Rome, sixty-three
ars.
Aubrey Beardsley. the artist Of the Yellow
Book, whose grotesque caricatures of people
are the reigning fads In art In London, is as
odd in appearance as are his exaggerated
drawings. He has red hair, which he wears
q Ia Bretonne, and face thin and pale. lie
is five feet nine inches In height and long
and lanky in build.
Max Simon Nordau, the author OF tho
book, Degeneration" is forty-six years old.
He Ii OF incisive personality, with face OF
unmistakable intellectually aud an eye
trained to see everything about him. Dur
Ing his younger years he was great
traveller, and, as he says himself, saw every
thing from the legendary North TO the
romantic South