The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-12-26
PERSONAL AND lMPERsoNAI.

jefferson Davis built . saw-milli in
Wisconsin--the first in the West-ten
years before the Mexican war.
Edwin Everett Hale says that when
he was in college he and his chuHa took
the first daguerreotype ever made in
Boston
Bishop Fowler thinks that Prince
Ii, the viceroy Of China, is zone OF the
greatest statesmen the world has ever
produced.
The richest woman in Wisconsin is
Mrs. Alexander Mitchell, whose husband
left her an estate worth many millions.
She is the widow Of the late president
of the Milwaukee g. ST. Paul road.
"A biographer Of David Bennett Hill
recalls the fact that the bachelor Gov
ernor was never fond of the girls. He has
always avoided their society, and he has
been known to walk around block to
avoid meeting one.
e. J. Baldwin, the California mill
ionaire, has been blacksmith, farmer,
stablekeeper, commercial traveller, boat
swain of a canal boat and grocer dur
ing his extraordinary career. He is now
sixty years old and worth $4,000, 900.
I'm place of the yellow button
which usually surmounts the top of the
cap of a Mandarin of high rank, the Chi
nese Minister at Washington wears a.
magnificent opal as large as pullet's
egg, surrounded by circle Of two-carat
diamonds.
Mr.. Chessman, a wealthy resident
of Etna; az, who is afflicted IN brens.
chial trouble, is compelled to sing.
asleep or awake, in order to keep from
smothering. His voice can be heard in
the stiffness of the night, floating out
on the air in, musical cadences which
have weird effect in the quiet village.
-Ansonia, CT, boasts of two young
lady hunters, who, suitably dressed,
with their fowling pieces and accom-
panied by their dog, go to the woods
and return with as good a bag of birds
as do any Of the hunters Of the opposite
sex. Best Of all, they seem to enjoy the
sport and long walks which they are
sometimes compelled to take.J
-Archdeacon Fafrar's son Is quite a
wit. While he was in Philadelphia he
was lionized good deal. One evening
at dinner a rather fresh young lady
turned to him and said: your father
is one of the big guns in England, is he
not, Mr.. Farrar?" HE was at one
time, replied the young man, politely,
sHezWas CANON youskI1o Wss sa=z=zs=zz
Clement Studebaker, Of Indiana,
one Of the delegates to the pan-Amer-
lean Congress, and one of the brothers
who have made the name Of South Bend
famous by the hugeness Of their wagon
factory, is proud of the manner in which
he has risen in the world, and in one of
the stained windows of his 100000
house he has placed picture Of the log
cabin in which he was born.
Andrew j.. Geiger, who died lately
in Philadelphia leaving an estate of
! $500 directed that an obelisf should
be erected over his grave which, besides
the usual mortuary inscription, should
bear seyeralyothers. The north panel
will bear this inscription: Travelled
10000 miles in America, Europe, Asia
and Africa The south panel is to
read: Young man, stop and think, See
what has been the reward for honesty,
! industry and economy. 1910 / worked
on Robert Martins farm near Jersey
shore for twenty-five cents day. No
fortune left to me- The west. panel
will say: Lived and died in the faith
Of the immutable and Interchangeable and
natures God. Believed in the gospel Of
peace, right and Justice"