The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-01-31
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
CHARACTERISTIC AND ACTIONS
OF MORTALS.


What They Do, What They Say and
What Other People Say About
Them.-InterestingF Facts.
President-elect Harrison now has
$4,000 insurance on his life.
Claus Spreckels is in Philadelphia
looking after his sugar refinery.
Congressman Burns, of Georgia,
died in Washington last week.
Sir John A. Macdonald, the Domin-
ion premier, has investments in the
United States, amounting to 81, ,5O0,-
900.
The Empress of Japan is laying in
a wardrobe for visit to this country.
Her clothing is, of course, Japan
wear.
Mr.. Barker, the champion Ameri-
can checker player, made $1,000 by
his recent victory over Smith, the
Englishman.
Emperor William of Germany keeps
a scrap hoax of newspaper clippings
regarding himself. No wonder he
often feels sick.
Henry s. Cook, of Norwich, Conn,
is tailor who possesses as a hirsute
phenomenon. His beard trails along
the ground for a space of three inches.
Russia boasts of musical prodigy.
He is pianist, FIVE years of age, who
plays Chopin to perfection, and bears
the inharmonious name of Raoul Koc
zalski.
The sad announcement goes forth
that the Sultan Of Turkey eats with
his fingers. But this could be for
given if he would pay his butcher and
grocer.
Ali Khoor, an Egyptian, was promot-
ed ON the field to the rank of Sergeant
for his conspicuous pluck in the recent
hand-to fight with the dervishes before
Suakim.
President Cleveland does not both
er himself about the details of state
dinner He leaves all the arrange
ments to his wife, who is very careful
in her inspection of everything per
tanning to the banquet.
Ye Ha Yung, of the Corean Lega
tion at Washington, is good deal O.
a dandy in his way. He pays great
many calls at the capital and seems te
enjoy himself, although he does moi
know a word of English.
Congressman James Laird. of Ne
Uraska, whose illness has been noteo
in the dispatches, is afflicted with
chronic melancholia, approaching in
sanity, and it is doubtful if ne will re
cover or ever be able to take his sea-
in Congress again.
Among other petty insults to which
the widow Of Frederick has been sub
jected by her eldest son is the ordel
recently published in the Official Ga
zette depriving her of the use of thu
| Imperial crown on her coat-of arms
and decreeing that i'll future she mus
content herself with the attributes o
! a mere Queen of Prussia.
Mrs. Cleveland is engaged in trans
lating a French novel into English
This work she has undertaken rrerel,
as a means of amusement and with n,
thought of having her translation
published. She reads French witt
perfect ease and her English style i
flexible and graphic. She has receiv
| ed utfers from various publishers VIII
are anxious to obtain the outcome Q
her labors, but up to-the present tim
she has refused to make any bargain
tor the production of her first liIerar
achievement.
James Berry, England's famou
t hangman, is man who belives tina
his position entities him to social di:
tinction His visiting card is of pal
mauve, highly glazed, fringed at tn
sides and tops with delicate spray c
maiden hair fern in gold, and bearin
the inscription in gilt Old English le
ter: "James Berry, Public Execr
toner, Bradford. Orders punctuall
executed" After an execution h
often struts to a coffee-room and il
sists upon drinking with the assemble
guests. If they show horror of hi
presence he becomes abusive.