The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-03-20
PERSONAL AND .MpsRsoNAL,

Mrs Nancy Frost, who resides neas
Marietta, o., Is los years old II IL stated
and has lived in Ohio since the first set.
Element wassestablished ut the mouth Of
the Muslxingum.
Cardinal Bonaparte, one Of the old
estmembers Of the Sacred College, is =
nephew Of the great Emperor u was
at one time thought that he might b
elected to the Papacy.
Mary Routh Ellis, Of Phfsadciphfas
one Of the benehciaries under the will
Of the late Jeff Davis, In the grandniece
Of the testator on her fathers side and
OF General Meade on her mothers side.
Rev. Robert Collyer, who began life
as . blacksmith and Is now one OF the
most popular living preachers, has just
entered his sixty-seventh year, y have
never been sick as much as one day In
my life,n he says,
Senator Edmunds, OF Vermont, has
served longer in the United States Sem
ate than any of his colleagues On
April 5, 1890, he will have been in the
Senate without q single break twenty
four years He looks his age.
The late Thomas Parker, Of WASH
ington, became so attached to cane
cheap one, which he carried for years
that he kept 1t in bed with him all
during his Illness, and before dying ex-
pressed wish that the favored stick BIO
buried with him. His with was carried
out, the cane being put in his coffin.
Dom Pedro carries the blood Of the
Braganzas, the Bourbons and the Haps-
burgs. BY marriage he is related to the
royal and imperial families OF England,
France, Russia, Spain and Naples. Dom
Pedro l., his father was Braganzs. his
mother Hapsburg and sister-in-lAw OF
Napoleon !. His relatives are Of every
grade, from absolute ruler to conHtitu-
tional monarch.
Rev. Henry Preble, who resides hear
Waterville, is one Of the oldest minis
tiers in Maine, and it is thought that his
horse has carried him over more miles
OF Maine road than have been similarly
Travelled by any other. preacher in the
State. He has driven his own rig over
90, 900 miles in the forty-five years which
he spent in active service-of the Lord.
ilc uScu w 1rdNci tfVHl tssh w otA W iAAA0S
to attend meetings, and he has never
failed to keep an engagement.
The two notable inter-African ex-
plorers of modern times, Mr.. II. M.
Stanley and Commander Cameron, are
physically small men. They are, in
fact, what are called little. But both
are very square about the shoulders and
of elastic movement. SANKEY'S most
striking feature is his eye. The mans
power over his fellows Is in his glance.
The steadiness Of his eye is quite unaid-
ed by the setting Of the mouth or the
brow. 1t fixes you and bespeaks the.
character Of Its owner. :,
I'm conversation with some friends
the other day Mr.. Chauncey Depew re-
ferred to the time when he held the
office of American Minister to Japan,
twenty-three years ago Itappears that
some of Mr.. Depew's friends are una
ware that he ever enjoyed the honor Of
an appointment to this high diplomatio
post. But he himself has not forgotten
it. He was appointed to 1t by Secretary
| Seward, under the administration Of
Andrew johnson, in 1866. Mr.. Seward
was DESTROYS that he should accept this
office at that time, and Ii was not till
Mr.. Depew had taken whole month to
think Of 1t that he notified the State
Department of his final determination
to refuse It. He preferred life in New
York to diplomacy in Toxic.