West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1877-09-29
Personal TOPICS.

SECRETARY EVARIs will introduce 10
Washington society, this winter, his
eleven beautiful daughters.
OF about two scores OF composers,
including all the well-known names. the
most prolific was Paisello, who hasgiven
the world ninety-one operas. Donizetti
wrote sixty-nine, while Gounod's list in
cludes only ten. Handel wrote forty
nine, Mozart twenty-nine, and Men
delsshon six. Ohenbach, who has prob
ably much work yet to do has produced
sixty-two operas.
WHEN in 1S4S that heroic old chief
tam Wrangel, determined to put down
the insurgents of Berlin, they sent him
word that at his first shot they would
hang his wife. For answer he opened
fire. When he got the upper hand of
the rebels he remarked to his aid "My
wife. Do YOU know am curious to see
if they did hang herr"
Mr.. GEORGE WALTON managed an
elopement successfully aJ Riverside,
Long Island, recently. He encountered
the young lady's father and mother on
the bridge. The father he whipped and
the mother he threw over the bridge into
the torrent below. They withdrew all
objection.
Two desperadoes escaped from Jail at
San Bcrnardino, California, by intimi-
dating the jailor, when he brought in
their supper, with sham revolver. 1t
was Whitfield out of pine plank, about
the length of "A Colt, and stained wal
nut color. The cylinder was piece of
zinc coiled into the proper shape, and
some of the same metal with viilainous
holes in it represented the chambers.
BRET HARrE is slender gentleman.
of medium height, with full suit of curly
hair, gray before its time, prominent
Roman nose, large gray eyes, chestnut
colored moustachc, chin that ought to
be little more to the front to make n
proper and firm base, and a countenance
that is pitted over with memories of the
smallpox.
AMONG the workmen Mt Cedar Point
quarry, Stonington, Ct, are Il former
lheutenant-Colonel of II Connecticut
regiment, Captain of Rhode Island
company, and an officer in Billy Will
sons Zouaves. 1t may be recalled by
some that man who had held Briga-
dler-GeneraPs commission and COM
mand, during the war, was found few
years later working rs Il common laborer
in Kentucky saw mill.
A WRITER in the New York Ecenino
Post says that Mr.. Sumner. who was
fastidiously exact in all matters of of
fetal etiquette, once said in his (the
writer's) presence that "the proper adj
dress of amember of Congress is simply
MIR. Smith, of II Senator. Mr.. SEN
ator;' of a Cabinet Secretary, Mr.. Sec
cretary, and of the President, Mr..
Presidents and the proper pronoun for
them all is you,
THE following order from General
Israel Putnam has recently been dis
covered among the archives i'm the Penn
sylvania State Capitol. 1t is written on
n scrap of paper, evidently the fly leaf
OF a blank book, and is penned in a lcgi-
Die, bold, round hand, and reads as fol-
lows; " You are to send one thousand
ratlons to the barroks for the yous of the
fashions. Israel Putnam. To Mr. franks.
December 30, 1916,
The National Republican reports that
Secretary Eyarts is amused by the news
paper statement that he rules eleven
lovely daughters. He said the other
day to correspondent, "Tell your peo-
pie that L don't object to eleven daugh-
ters, out do object TO the summary
manner in which they have killed off
my six sons The Secretary has fam
lily OF five daughters and six sons.
NEWARK, On. j. Courier: For two or
three years past the bronze statue of
General Phil Kearny has been standing
IN an out of the way niche in the State
House at Trenton. What its ultimate
destination is to be none of our State
oihcials appear to know or care. 1t was
ordered by the State at n cost of ten
thousand dollars, and intended to be
placed in the rotunda of the National
1aPitol at Washington, but one of the
nigh art critics who occasionally find
their way into our State Legislature
thought he discovered defect i'm the
work of the artist and objected to the
state paying for it. 1t was paid for. how
ever, when delivered, and remains lust
where it was dumped