West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-01-26
Personal TOPICS.

! Constantinople, but he tried Ia cut hi.
way out of Plevna in the other direction
MIR. Moody, the evangelist, is fort,
years OF age, and Mr.. Sankey is thirty
seven. The two have worked together
for seven years.
| FRANCS MURPHY, the apostle OF
temperance, has agreed TO go regularly
into the lecture field, under the manage
ment of a Boston bureau.
/ SENATOR CoNKLING, when at college
| Is said. TO have had manners SO reserved
that they provoked his fellow student.
to tease and torment him.
Mrs. HENHEssEY, of Eldorada, Fond
du Lac County, Wis, aged one hundred
and four, hung up her stocking for the
hundred and second time on Christmas
| eve.
a LITTLE girl in Syracuse, n. Y,
! died in convulsions from drinking
! brandy handed to her by her mother
during the night under the supposition
! that il was water.
MooDY has church in Chicago of
which he is nominally pastor, and to
which he says he may, afcw years hence,
entirely devote himself The house and
ground cost $4,000, and are entirely
paid for.
KRUPP, the great German gunmaker,
seems likely TO find his occupation gone,
the inspectors of artillery of that coun-
try having decided TO adopt the Eucha-
thus system of bronze guns, which has
been so successfully tried in Austria.
CANON REARDoN, TO whom Queen
Victoria has just sent II congratulatory
message on the completion of his one
hundredth year, was ordained i'm 1901
and has held his present living at North
Stoneham, Southampton, since 1911.
The living is worth about four thousand
dollars.
AT Dubuque wedding. the other day,
| among the wedding presents ostenta-
tiously displayed was hundred dollar
bill, n present from the doting father TO
his darling daughter. After the guests
had departed, the old man coolly rolled
up the bill and put il in his vest pocket,
and that was the last of il.
GENERAL NELSON A. MILES, who has
won so much distinction in the late
Indian campaign, was at the outbreak
of the rebellion selling dry-goods over
the counters of Boston store. He had
few months experience in the country
militia. He soon received lieutenant's
| commission in volunteer regiment.
was wounded at Fair Oaks, Fredericks-
burg, and Chancellorsville, and at the
close of the war had the rank Of a
majOr-general.
PRINCE GORTsCHAKoFF, the Russian
Premier, is noted for his abstemious
habits He never drinks wine and never
smokes. lie eats but two meals day.
Retiring very early i'm the evening, he
sleeps ten or twelve hours. His regular
habits have kept his frame i'm such excel
lent condition that he does not feel the
niirmities of old age at all. He was
born in 1873, entered upon his diplo-
matte career under Count Nesselrode
and became the Foreign Minister of
Russia at the close of the Crimean cam
paign.
a CURIOUS story is told of st. Philip
Neri, who WAS directed by the Pope TO
inquire into the truth Of certain miracles
said to have been worked by a nun. To
ascertain whether the woman possessed
true humanity, which, as one of the
cardinal virtues, must be held before
the power TO work miracles is bestowed
upon any one, he entered her cell with Il
pair OF dirty boots on, pulled them off,
threw them at her head, and ordered her
10 clean them. Vehement and shrilly
expressed was the Indignation Of the
lady; whereat st. Philip reported TO his
Holiness that a new saint had not arisen
to edify the Church.
a GREEHvILLE neighbor of Andrew
Johnson owned a dog which was n
favOrite of the Ex-Presidents. The day
before he died he stroked the animal
upon the head, saying, " Prince, you
and ] are getting old we are not long
for this world" This was Sunday !;
Monday night he died, short distance
from Greenville, and Wednesday a train
brought his remains home. "Prince 4"
was at the depot, and the car containing
JohnsOn's remains ran over the faithful
dog, crushing out his life. This recalled
yividly what the EXP President had said
only three days before. IL is said that
during the first two years of his Green
vile life after his return from the
Presidency he was as restless as a Gagged
lion, walking about the streets without
employment, and apparently deeply
miserable with the long days hanging
on his hands, and no way 10 take care OF
the time congenial with his tastes.