Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1889-09-07
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

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President Harrison has leased his house In
Indianapolis tor three years
The Rev. Ellis Howell. of Marshall. Ills,
has just married his one thousandeth couple.
DR.. Jansen, who lately completed an ad.
ve44te' Gus journey across Greenland, is only
q years old.
Gen. Crook says that Sitting Bull has no
reputation among the Indians as brave, but
e1sy rs . medicine man.
Samuel Agres, an Adventist, living ia wor-
cester, Mass, predicts the end Of the world
on Che night of Oct. Z, 1880
Edwin s. Connor, an aged actor of Phila-
aolphia, has acted Richelieu 1913 times, but
has never seen any one else act it.
Ex-Gayor MCGOWAN, of Trenton, who is
prominently mentioned as a candidate for
governor, began ifo as q newsboy.
Mr.. Gladstone allows all the people in the
neighborhood Of Hawarden to freely use his
splendid library Of 10000 volumes.
Henry Irving writes to friend denying
emphaticaily that he has complained Of un-
fair treatment by the American press.
DR.. Talmage says he has been deceived and
defrauded by many people. but that no news
paper man ever broke professional faith with
him.
Sims Reeves, the English tenor, is about to
take another farewell Of the public. BE con-
siders the money thus obtained the cream of
ta-ta.
Dr. Oscar Montelius estimates that the
stone age ended about $500 years ago In
Sweden, where it reached q very high deyel-
opment.
II has been stated that the lamented Father
Damien attributed his leprosy to the inocula-
ton Of an abrasion in the scalp through the
agency Of flies.
Eighty years ago Tepny son, Darwin, Glad
stoae. Isac9ln, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar
Allan Poe and Lori fIoughton were born;
1909 was a great year.
Lord Charles Beresford is authority for
the statement that the guns of the transat-
lantic liner Teutonic could have sunk Nell
sons whole fleet III half an hour.
Gustaye Dumoutier has constructed a verb
table Buddhist temple in Paris, on the Champ
de Mars, for tho use OF Annamites and Chit
nose who may visit the exposition. y
The president Of the French council NJ
Tirard, Is a "Cockney Partisan Before enl-
barking in politics he kept jewelers. shop
imitation jewelry and 'Brurnnagem" clocks
Philip Grenan, who left the United States
forty years ago, is now at the head OF prob
ably the largest stevedore business In Bonn
bay, India employing no less than 1000
men.
Alexander Mackenzie, ex-premier vi Cam
ada, is In delicate health Mr. Mackenzie was
offered the doubtful honor of knighthood ten
years ago and refused IL. He is a bricklayer
by trade.
The late Judge Terry took part In the first
battle of Bu1 Run, fighting in civilians
clothes on the southern SIDE He commanded
an independent body of Texan cavalry later
in the war.
The late Daniel K. Steward, who is said to
have been s'the wealthiest man in Virginia.
made his money on snuff and tobacco. de
was 5cotchman and never surrendered his
allegiance to Great Britain.
Chauncey NJ Depew, who has recently had
an opportunity Of making an instantaneous
study Of Emperor William, is very much inn
pressed hv HIS militarism He says that
william looks every inch the emperor.
Robert Ray Hamilton is 81 years old,
though he looks younger. Heis an agreeable
oonvesationalist and fair public speaker
It was he that conducted the proceedings
against Capt. Cregan In behalf of Allen
Thorndike Rice, whose close personal friend
he was.
Gen. N. L. Banks has had q varied career.
He was "bobbin boy" In factory, an actor
fifty years ago, having played Claude Mel
notte In the LADY of Lyons" at the old Ma
tional theatre, Boston. Later on he was O
lawyer, and still later general In the army,
governor Of the state Of Massachusetts,, and
speaker Of the house In the same state.
The late William Thaw, of Pittsburg Pa,
was man of extraordinary intelligence, hay
ing remarkable memory, and discussed the
affairs of the world at large with rare de-
gree Of discernment and power Of expression
possessed by but a few individuals He
dressed plainly, with noticeable absence of
jewelry, and his generosity was proverbial
The name Of Charles A. Absolom, who
came to death by an untimely accident ON the
steamship Muriel, is known to all cricketers.
He was graduated at Oxford at the head OF
his class, and was man Of good birth and
breeding. In his youth he was the most fa-
nous cricketer in all England. His eccen-
tricity was to play without his hat IN Aus
tralia he played bareheaded under the broil-
ing sun, with the mercury at lz0 dogs, and
while In the West Indies he slept on deck
bareheaded in rain and dew.