The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-10-16
PERSONAL AND lMpEasoNAL-

queen victoria's dinner hour II not
until nine in the evening. At about
eleven she retires 70 her private apart
ments-
Prof. Burt wilder, Of Cornell. 10
making { collection Of brains. He
wants braInslothsr peoples He Is es.
pecialiy DESTROYS that editors should
leave their brains TO him when they &C
into the obituary department But BY
She time the average editor dies ne has
almost used them up In the service OK
humanity.
Rev DR.. Tslmagc receives $4,000
year from his Brooklyn congregation.
ste, 500 from firm for the advance pub
locations o. his sermons and ~. 500 for
his contributions 70 religious Journal.
besides what he earns on the lecture
platform from. general literary work.
He would losc money II no traded his
income for that Of the President Of the
United States.
Mrs. Jopling, the most famous and
able Of English women artists Is
leader Of intellectual London society as
we'll. She Is handsome, GRACEFUL and a
witty and original talker, who dresses
we'll, and possesses beautiful house
She has been three times married, but
her brilliant and agreeable husband,
Mr.. Rowe, prefers that she should con-
tinue to sign her pictures with the name
she has adorned.
-rhe English love Of dancing still
puzzles lazy Orientals. At recent ball
at Rangoon two native grooms were
watching the festivities from veranda,
and one OF the observers aslSed his COM
panion why the couples walked about
after each dance The other groom
described the reason In stable phrase
-ology: .'The sahibs run the mems and
misses round to make them hot ana
then walk them around to cool them
down"
"A Boston biography need not be vol
luminous in order to suggest the salient
points OF the typical life Of culture.
For instance: he was born in Boston;
he graduated successiveiy at the Boston
Latin School and atHarvard University;
his yacht won the race ut Marbfchead
Neck; he had poem In the Atlantic
Monthly; he Was -President q OF the ST.
Botolph; he had pew at Trinity Church,
and was buried in Mount Auburn. --Bos'
ton Budget.
r William Seuf, who recently died
In Baltimore, Md, wss one OF the clev-
crest violin-makers in the world. He
was born in Prussia about seyenty-two
years ago. Ole Bull met with steam
boat explosion on the Ohio river and
swan to the shore with his highly
priced Gasparo Da Ssla above his head.
He sent this "matchless patriarch of
divine violin" to Seuf to be restored
Seurs manipulations made the instru-
ment more valuable than 1t had ever
been. Seuf also restored the Oldest
violin In existence, now In the possess
sion OF Edwin +. Abel, OF Baltimore.
Seuf was man of gigantic stature and
served as cuirassier In, the Prussian
army.
Breslin. Of Springfield o.
has curious displacement Of his vital
organs. His heart is on the rightside Of
his chest. Breslin is healthy young
man OF twenty-six, and is draughts-
man and engineer Of marked abilities +
He experiences no Ill effects from the
unique displacement, and is actively
engaged daily in his profession. Tho
beating OF the heart can be plainly felt
on the right side. His circulation is
regular and bis purse normal. Mr.
Breslin says when he was little boy
=he-was thrown from heavy farm
wagon, and two wheels passed obliquely
across his chest. He was i'll for some
time from the injury, and believes that
the heart was showed over to its present
posi- ton by the wheels, and that his cir
culation and vital organs finally accom-
medated themselves TO the change.