The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-04-25
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL.

Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt wheE
shc gives dinner parties. uses solid
gold dinner service set with uncut
gems and with some courses Dresden
and Ss~res plates worth moro thar
"a 90 apiecn
Tho young men nrc coming 70 the
front in New York State Tho Speaker
OF the House Is only thirty-iwo and this
Speaker pro TEN. Of the Senate thirty
Ave. The oldest statesman in the Log
islaturc Is only fifty-iivo.
Old Mrs. Baker, OF Cairo. took
new departure on her sixty-fcurth
birthday. She ate an orange. fig
and a date for the first time In her
life, but concluded not to try glass Of
lemonade forfcHr il might be danger
GUS.
Robbins, the circus man. Is q con-
sistent Christian. He never sworc In
his life, and never allowed any Of his
employees to swear. Whenever he saw
one OF them getting mad. he would
say: Here, now; get outside the
ropes II you are going TO cuss.
Mrs. Newton. OF Toronto, IL one
Of the four women who were given the
Crfmean medal Queen Victoria her
self pinning 1t upon them. Mrs. New
ton went all through the Crimean war
as d nurse, and on that memorable
day and night when the French cap
tured the Malakotf and the English
assaulted the Redan. she was In the
third trench before the Redau attend-
ing the wounded, and was there shot
through the knee.
London boasts OF musical prodigy
in the person Of u young girl who can
play with extraordinary dcxtcrity en-
the single string OF the violin. She ~
the daughter OF q rich city merchant.
and her fathers opposition has pro-
vented her from appearing in public.
Mrs. Livermore. OF New York,
says her husband is a Republican.
while she is Prohibltionist; he Is =
protectionist and she a free trader; he
tahas a pow in one church, sho In
another; he has one doctor, she another;
and yet they are happy and harmonious
and never dream Of quarreling.
A member Of the New York AS
sembly is related to the Astors by
marriage, Visitors TO Albany ask TO
have him pointed out TO them. and app.
pear very much surprised 10 find he To-
plainly dressed man, who never
makes speech. always behaves him
self, and doesn't seem u bit proud Of
his relationship to the leading family
OF the New York 400.
| A shoemaker Of Atlanta Ga. I
finished the iar.gcst pair Of shoes ever
made for actual use. 1t took piece
of leather containing 1,040 square
inches to make the uppers, and 1850
to make the soles. This Is 5000
square inches altogether. IL that
leather were cut into two strips an
eighth of an inch wide, and made into
one long string, the string would be
$4,000 inches long. The soles weigh
ST pounds. The soles are IA inches
long. 81 wide and 81 inches deep.
That doesn't count tho heel, which
would add another inch to the depth.
Colonel James A. Wood died re-
Gently at his home in Bloomfield, KY,
aged seyenty-four years. Col 0nel
Wood went to Texas In, 1885 and took
part in the rebellion against Mexico.
He was at the massacre OF the Alamo.
and. with two others, escaped, they.
being the only survivors ofthat bloody
event. Colonel Wood, in his account
of his escape, said that when Santa
Anna ordered the prisoners to be shot
he dropped to the ground, asif he had
been killed at the first discharge. He
began to roll over and continued roll
ing until the river was reached, when
he sprang to his feet and got away.
He never stopped travelling from the
Alamo until he reached Kentucky.