West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-02-16
Personal GOSSIP.


GoUGH is going abroad for years
rest. He is much broken. His lectures
are followed by great nervous and phys
ical exhaustion, and be has to be
groomed and put TO bed like a race
horse.
The Raleigh On. c. Ne,cs says that
after the death of Chief Justice Chase
the commission of Judge Pearson was
made out and signed by President Grant,
but was cancelled when il was known
that Judge Pearson was i'm his sixty
eighth year.
The executors of Horace Greeley's
estate have made their final settlement.
The estate consists largely of stocks that
have decreased very much in value.
Among the assets there are $50, 900 in
worthless promissory notes, besides S49,-
600 due the estate from Cornelius Van
derbilt, jr.
MRS. HAYES has genuine liking for
the White House, old-fashioned as il is.
She took an old friend through il the
other day, showed him the great rooms,
and exclaimed: "No matter what they
build, they will never build any more
rooms like thesew
The tallest man in the United States
is probably Henry Thurston, "A native of
Missouri, now residing in Titus County,
Texas, and formerly Confederate sol
der, who stands seven feet six inches in
his bare feet. Barnum offered him a
large sum to join his exhibition, but he
declined.
LEoNCE DE MENNIER, who died a few
days ago in Paris at the age of seventy
four, was the original of the battalion
commander mentioned in Victor Hugo's
" History of Crime" who, rather than
assist n Napoleon's coup d'etat of 1851,
broke his sword before his colonel and
threw the fragments at his feet.
Mr.. GOODWIN SMITH, who was to
have returned to America last July, has
postponed his return till next July, and
has written to his friends in Cornell
University that he hopes TO be back i'm
his old chair by September. He adds,
l think | may safely say we shall cross
the Atlantic no more" He is now en-
gagged in writing a handy volume on
Wordsworth.
RoNDoUT Freeman: There is a gentle
man living in the town of Saugerties
who has discovered that the brick in his
house is full of gold. The gentleman
does not want his house torn down
through any newspaper talk so, at his
request, his name is not given, but the
statement can be vouched for, and the
gentleman is not in the habit of wearing
brick in his hat. He had the brick
assayed and found that it yielded quite
largely.
MRS. SwIssHELM has nearly reached
the conclusion that it would be wise to
abolish pantaloons. She remarks-not
enviously we hope-"There is no more
appropriate covering for mans foot
and leg than a cavalry boot; but it
should be worn with knee-breeches and
the top fastened up to the belt Panta-
looms and long boots are not made to 90
together; and the pantaloons, in any
case, is an awkward continuance, always
Topping around the ankle, impeding
locomOtion and catching dirt.
IN response TO the question, "Has a
husband right to open his wife's let
lers| the New York SIM says: Gun
questionably wife ought to be ready
to show her letters TO her husband, pro
vided he desires to read them. But he
is either a very rude or very suspicious
man if he insists on opening them before
they have reached her hands. The per-
son to whom letter is addressed ought
to have the privilege of breaking it's
seal; and if the person happens to be a
woman and wife, that fact does not
impair her right to receive her cores.
pondence untouched"
They tell about man i'm Maine, who
refused to get up and light the fire, ard
as his wife said she wouldn't, they re-
NAMED in bed thirty-seven hours before
this matter was settled. Our sympathies
are, of course, with the woman, and we
may be permitted to entertain a regret
that it did not occur to her to perform a
great deed of self sacrifice upon this
occasion. How noble and beautiful
would have been the example set her
husband, how touchingly would she have
shown her wifely Devotion how keenly
would she have made him feel his mean
ness, if she had risen and made the fire
if she had risen, we say, and made the
fire under the bed, in order to route
him out all of a sudden A woman who
throws away such a chance as that is
false to her duty and to her sex.