Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-05-24
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

THE first woman to apply for admission to
the bar Of the Supreme Court of Michigan. il
Miss Flora W. Tibbitts, Of Ann Arbor
ex-senator SAWYER Of Alabama, now
earns his daily bread as a second class clerk
in the War Department at Washington.
AS. MURPHY keeper of the Greek An
Equities in the British Museum, and one Of
the foremost psychologists Ia Europe, is now
in America.
PROFESSOR FORSTER, Of Breslau, has had
300 eases Of affected eyesight due to disturb
Hnee Of the circulation caused by wearing
tight collars.
pEoF. BooSR, Of Indiana University. saws
that Of $500 theological students In the
United States, less than one-fourth are college
graduates.
Ex-Governor Lowry and Col William
II. McArdle are engaged IN the preparation
Of a history Of Mississippi, from its earliest
settlement - the present time.
EDwIS STEVENS, the newly appointed Con.
sui to PernambucO, was major Of the Seventy.
seventh Illinois during the war. lie was Eve
years Consul at Ningpo, China,
CHARLES NEGLEY, who succeeds Mr.. Ben.
nington, Of West Virginia, rs consul to Rio
Grande do Sol, Brazil is one Of the proprie.
tors Of the Hagerstown Md Ironworks.
Hon. DAVID DUDLEY FIELD. Of New
h.
Peace Society to the Universal Peace Con-
gress at Westminster Hall, London, July 14.Ig.
MR. WILLIAM l.. ALDES. the late consul.
general Of the United States for Italy, has re.
ceiyed from the King Of Italy the cross u
Cayaliere della Corona Italia in recognition
Of bis kindness to Italians.
"MY sos" said senator Brown. ofCeoreia.
to a reporter who asked him If he was. as re-.
ported, worth q million collars; "my son.
million dollars is mighty big lot Of money, !"
and that was all he would say
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. who is now
seventy, declares that his sight IL growing
feeble, and the fatigue Of writing is wearing
upon him aud he must hereafter place all 81
his correspondence, except that Of old friends
in his secrciarys hands.
JoHN @. HART of County Clare ireland
an aged author, publicly acknowledges fhe
receipt Of an annuity donated by George ~
Chiids, 10 the end that the declining years Of
the writer may be free from care and an xiefy. p
Mr. Hart is the author Of Irish Pedigreesb
The monument to the late Mr. Hendricks Of
Indiana, designed by r. u. Parks, consists u
pedestal twenty-one feet high aud bronze
statue thirteen feet 10 height. Jorie columns
stand Al the corners Of the pedestal In inches
on the sides are figures Of History and jus.
tiee.
MRS MARY MILLER, Of Western pennsyI.
vsnia, probably the wealthiest colored woman
in the country died the other day. Her in.
come was $2i9 4 day. -Four years ago she
owned barren piece Of ground, but there
was oil beneath its surface which made it oil
right
SENATOR EyARTs' living expenses are esti.
mated at 10000 year. He has three houses
which be keeps open all the time--one at New
York, one az Washington aud one at Windsor
VT In each he has library almost dnpIi-
cate Of the other two-flied with the best
works Of law, history, political economy,
poetry and prose fiction. The Senator likes
his comfort, and his ambition and satisfaction
are to live like an English gentleman, on a
luxurious and liberal scale, without any re-
gard to The petty economies Of life.