Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-09-06
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

EDGAR FAwCErT is fascinated with tho
Suburbs of London.
SENATOR EDMUNDs is said to be much con-
cerned about his failing health.
GEORGE T. BECK, son of the Kentucky
Senator, is now canyassing Wyoming Tor Con-
gress.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE writes a small
ana neat hand which is as clear and legible as
copper plate.
MARTIN IRONS, who led the strike on the
lron Mountain Railroad, now sells peanuts in
depot at ST. Louis.
Miss ANNIE A. De BARR has receiv d
license as mechanical engineer from the Chi
cago Board of Engineers.
SENATOR GEORGE of Mississippi, has
head Of long, flowing hair that waves pictur-
equeiy about when he is excited.
MARION CRAWFORD. the novelist. keeps
himself in fine physical trim by fencing and
indulsing in other athletic exercise.
Miss RACHEL SHERMAN has the reputa-
zion Of being the best toast-mistress among
The PoItlco-socety circles at Washington.
GEORGE MEREDITH has finished his novel
he Journalist and is taking holiday. lie
has been engaged upon this book for several
years.
NOSE" JACOBS Dcs Moines, Iowa, news
boy, has a fortune OF $4,000 invested in real
estate. He is one Of the best known persons
In Iowa.
COLUMBUS DELANo, of Ohio, who is presi
sent OF the WouigrOwers' Association, was
hrants Secretary of the Interior. He is well
advanced in years, but active enough to visit
Washington frequently.
Miss GRACE KING, the Louisiana novelist.
) described 10y one of her friends as woman
OF stately figure and striking features. Her
hair and eyes are brown and she is twenty
seven years old
TENNYsON'S back yard is said to be strewn
with clay pipes that he has used and discard
ed, The poet is prodigious smoker, and like
Carlyle, he prefers the humble clay pipe,
rarely smoking cigar.
PRoFEssoR MES ID. DANA, the geologist,
the only man ing who assisted in forming
the American association for the Advance
ment of Science, fifty years age, attended the
indianapolis meeting last week.
ELIZABETH CoMsrocK. an aged Quaker
preacher, living at Union Springs, n. T., has
visited in her lifetime $4,000 persons, and
nearly twice that many sick persons in and
out OF poor houses, battlefelds, etc
MINISTER PITKIN is making a reputation
in Buenos Ayres as Il literary light. HI re-
Gently delivered a lecture on "The Fools of
Shakespeare" before the cream of the Arren-
tine capitals society, and produced a strong
impression on his audience.
SENATOR PLUMB is described as the very
picture of a rough and ready farmer from the
wild and wOoly West He is a tall, broad.
stout man, with big head and big chest,
He is lawyer by profession, despite his
granger-like appearance.
ROBERT P. PORTER, the superintendent of
the census, has the physique of an athlete
He is an active, clean-shaven man, dark com.
plexioned, with black eyes and black hair.
Nearly 1000 clerks are employed in the Cen
sus Bureau at present, though its normal staff
of employees in off years consists Of one clerk
and one messenger
PROFESSOR f. w. NEWMAN, brother of the
Cardinal, is now IS years of age. Hesay that
he was practical abstainer from Intoxicating
liquors from boyhood when he dined alone,
At 81 he turned vegetarian and since then he
has needed no physician. He is as well now.
he says, as any one of his age can expect to be-
and he laments because vegetarianism makes
no greater progress with the world
HENRY SAVAGE LANDoR. a gifted Young
artist, and grandson of Walter Savage Ian.
dor, the poet and critic, is now travelling and
painting in the interior Of Japan. Although
only "a years old, he has visited this country.
Alaska, Egypt aud much OF the continent. and
hopes during the next three years TO spend
some time in Siberia, C0rea. China. and Aus
tralia. Then he will exhibit his work in Lon.
don.