The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-01-10
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
THE GOOD AND BAD DEEDS OF
MORTALS.

THE GOOD AND BAD DEEDS OF
MORTALS.
Those Of High and Low Degree and
Those Of Medium Stature. - How
They All Talk and Act.
The only two members of the Con-
gress of 1880 now living are III. w.
Watterson, father of Henri Waiter
son, and P. F. Thomas, of Maryland.
The man who made the first photo.
graph ever produced in the United
States, Franz George Schreiber, is still
living in Philadelphia, hale and hearty,
at the age of 86.
The most prominent brigand in
China, Ho Ia Lao hu, has been cap
tured end killed. He was a giant,
being Z feet 2 inches in height nd
broad in proportion. He has been
concerned in a great many robberies
and large number of murders.
Miss Anna E. Dickinson has gone
back to Pittston, Pa, to spend the
winter with her aged mother and only
sister. She has been urged to go to
England and try her fortune as an
actress on the London stage, where it
is believed her Anne Boleyn would be
q success
The American pistol expert, Ira
Paine, is exhibiting his skill at the
Folles Bergers in Paris. He clai 8
20 ho
manufacture Of gold from an ALLOW of
silver and copper and is trying to
raise funds to start a workshop for the
transmutation of the precious metal.
A Brussels writer places Mr.. Henry
n. Stanley by the side of Ulysses and
Eneas, and implies that in the wander
ings of the modern American, as in
those of the ancient Greek and the
Trojan, there was a woman in the
case. Mr.. Stan.ey's Calypso, or Dido,
was a young English lady whom he
met in his forty-fourth year.
The Hadrone vineyard, the finest
property of the kind in California, has
been bought by Senator Hearst, who
proposes to raise quantity of grapes
to be used in making native wines.
The vineyard is historical one, as
the mansion on it was built by Gen
eral Sherman and afterward was the
home of Fighting Joe" Hooker and
of General Stone, who, after his court
martial, took service under the khe-
dive.
The greatest land owner of Great
Britain is shooting alligators in Flor
ida. The possessions of the Duke of
Switzerland embrace an area of L.
358, ,545 acres, principally in Scotland.
Stafford House, the Dukes London
residence, is perhaps the most magni-
ficent mansion in the city. His father
paid $3.50, 900 for it, and 81, $780, 900
has since been spent in improving and
decorating it.
The career of a German clerk is
fairly typified in the case of james
Eveleth, the veteran of the War De-
partment. He began working for the
United States in 1929 at $500 year.
In 1886 he was given 81 900 year
in 1850 81 ,25O year; from 1858 to
1S5She was paid 81, 800, and the next
year he was promoted to $1,000. In
1864 he was given 81 800, and in 1885.
on account of dvancing age, was re-
duced to 81 900. There he is now at
about 80 years of age, and there he
will die, unless, perhaps, he lives long
enough to suffer further reductions.
The Chief of the United States Sc
cret Service. John S. Bell, has been on
a tour of inspection in the Detroit and
Omsha districts, where his striking
resemblance to Buffalo Bill was much
commented upon. Mr.. Bell, writes a
Kansas City correspondent, resembles
Buffalo Bill sufficiently to be his
brother, with his long flowing hair,
heavy brown mustache and imperial
and broad brimmed slouch hat. The
only noticeable difference is in the
physique, Mr.. Cody being the larger
man. A stranger would take Mr..
Bell to be a frontier scout rather than
q Government officer, but there is II,
evidence that he was ever a rover Of
the plains, or an Indian fighter, or
anything more dangerous than Chief
of Police at Newark, N. j., position
which he held prior to his appointment
by President Cleveland.