West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-04-05
PERSONAL

MR. Gladstone is writing his memoirs.
Count Won MoLr1E wears yellow wig.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND was flfty.o year.
o.d ON March lS
Ihe Lord Chancellor of England, Lord
haiSoury, IL s.Nty-thrco years old.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHIIL was expelled
lrom Eton College when sixteen years OF
age
JAY GOULp's son, Eddie, is described as
the most shabbily dressed son OF a mill ,onaire
IN the country.
,eined leave OF absence for sixty days from
his duties in London
Mr. and Mrs. w X. Vanderbilt are said
10 nave been frightened out OF their Bava
rian castle by ghosts.
STATUE of William T.. Foster, tho Eng.
hsh statesman will bc erected on the Thames
embankment London.
CONGRESSMAN SCorT, OF Pennsylvania
pays his cook $4,000 aud takes great interest
IN the science OF gastronomy.
Tux oldest British peer is Viscount Ever.
sley, who IN ninety three years old, and the
youngest Is the Duke Of Albany, ninety years
his junior
ANDREW CARNEGIE. the great iron master,
Is TO give Sl,OO0,OOO, and more ~ necessary
10 establish poly tecnic school at PittSburg
equal to tho one in Boston.
GuzMAN BLANCo, President OF Venezula
has Killed twenty men i'm political duels it
being the custom TO fight any man who disa.
grees with your political opinions
SENATOR PALMER, OF Michigan has the
reputation OF being the hnest linguist In the
up or house OF Congress lie can make
sp'ech in English, French or Spanish.
GEoRGE FRANCIS TRAIN from his retreat in
New brunswick again sounds the alarumn
and preilctS inundation, shipwreck earth
quake and bankruptcy for the British Prov.
inccs.
DuRINo his stay in San Reno, Italy Doc
tor Mackenzie, of London, composed an over
ture To Shakespeares "Tweft Night" Tho
work Is said TO reflect the life and humor OF
the comedy.
SENATOR EvARTs is said 20 make from
SS,OOO 60 $4,000 n year out OF his law prao
tice. Senator Edmunis has an income from
tine law that ls i've times as great as his sal
airy as Senator.
EX-SENATOR II. A. TApoR Is again In luck
IL is said that eight feet of solid ore that will
average SO per ton has been Opened up at
tho Matchless Silver Mine, owned 10y him
near Leadville, Col
THS wooden cross mlrking the place where
KING OF Bavaria Ludwig III. met his death
is 20 Toe replaced by n small chapel built on
piles. King Othos condition has undergone
no change; ON the last visit paid tb him by
his mother he failed TO recognize her.
THE Gar ro elves from his treasury on
us eNely year N,OuU,OuD fOubles Tor house
no ii expenses and 2OOO0OO roubles for his
stable A rouble is worth G5 cents. In al
diton TO this, the Crown Prince, now boy
at homo, receives S2O0J, 900 roubles year
until he Il Of age
ThE Crown Prince Nicholas OF Russia. who
Is now seventeen years Old Is described as an
ahectionate, wa m-hearted boy, who Is "A
great favor,te with every one and no pos.
seses very democratic notions At the "a ne
time he has his fathers imperious will aud
dos not like TO have his plans interfcred
with.
POSTMASTER GENERAL DICKINSON, tho
youngest member OF the Cabinet, Is OF meli-
diuIn height and rather slender, with u thin
but rosy face, bright eyes and straight nose
His hair is brown and he wears pair OF
mutton-chop whisker5. He is usually clad in
his chest.