Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-03-08
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

Thomas A. Edison's birthday is now noted
in the British almauacS.
Tennyson is said to be forty.two pounds
heavier than hs was year ago.
General Longstreet is now keeping hotel
in the little town of GAINESVILLE, Ga.
Mrs. E Iison ha, fac brown eyes, u raight
face. with delicately acquiline nose.
Mary j. Holmes, the novelist, received
roya ties on II 900 copies of her books sold IN
1889
- Cardinal Newm n has entere his uinstieth
year III better hediGh than usual and, prom
iSes to outlive the Pope.
Senator Ingalls, receives at least ten letters
week FROM publishers usilng to see the
manus ;ript OF h ) novel.
Misses Margaret and Harriet Blaine arc
usually accompanied by Il large maStiH III
their rambles ABOUT Washington.
Senator Hearst, of California, worked on
his fathers farm in Missouri bsiore he went
to San Francisco forty years a 20.
Herr Krupp, the gunmaker, is the richest
man in rmany. Ills income last year was
81 ,395, 900 US against 81, 05J,0JO IN 1888.
Mrs. Russell b. Harris IN has had bonnet
named alter her, which is modification of
ons designed for Princess Rlnsky kortch-
kof.
Prof Anderson, lately mipister TO Den
mark, began lie III Milwaukee by pedliIng
apples about the banks, Boarl of Trade ami
railway offices.
Clinton Scollard. the poet, is professor of
English literature at Hamilton College, H5
is young man, rather handsome and ex.
ceedingly genial
Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Serras
writes an almost i'll giDle hand IL is said
that this eccentricity disgu SEES some equally
eccentric spelling.
Captain r. f. Koe, candidate for Governor
of Georgia, is the iIyentJr of Il choice va
rlety waterme.on, and USED to b. one OF tbs
cIief melon-growers in the state.
The young Chinese Emporer has insisted
upon tue closing of z mbllng establishments
in Pekin, and 10 trying to cut down expen-
ses connected with the government admin
lstration.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes decided after
the death of his wife that hs would do no
more literary work. IL has CHANGED his
mind, however, and now finds in tue monthly
letters to the atlantic source of pleasure
that he did not expect d gain to expsrlencs.
John H. Inman, the New York millionaire.
is healthy LOOKING man of Commercial
manner, with bold hroal Torch .ad and a
prominent goatee. He Is the leader of tbs
Southern colony in New York; owns acres
by the thousand in Alabama ald Georgia
and is keen eyed director Of companies too
numerous to mention.
Mr.. Snowden, of Philadelphia, the United
States Minister to Greece, gave banquet at
tue United States legation In Athens, in
honor of Wushiugton's birthday Among
the guests were court Officials, Cabinet MN
lSters, the entire dlplom ttic corps aud many
| distinguished Americans.
| Count Herbert Bismarck has strongly
chiseled features, heavy cavalry moustache
and the bearing of the son of his father. He
has never succeeded in startling anyone by
4 any especial brilllancy, but he is Minister Of
| Foreign Affairs of the German Empire. An
| Irish woman has refused to marry him.
Judge Mcconnell, of Gu cago, is a genial
/ looking man with TN elongated bald head
and fringe of iron-gray hair OF singular
sparseness. He speaks measuredly and with
/ cool elaboration, but with plentiful inter-
/ spersion of rich idioms. He is close on three
/ SCORE and has not yet quite recovered from
/ the strain of the Cronin trial, over which he
! presided.
Henry 1rving's son is taken TO task for
calling himself Henry Irving, Jrn 1t is
/ said that his fathers name being really
4 Henry Irving Brodrib, he should call him
self Brodrib. Ths fact is that the &C. or,
/ some ten years ago, when about to be- III de
freeman OF the city of LonI H. had lis
name changed by legal process from Brodfio
TO Irving, and his son Is Consequently Henry
Irving, Jr.
Lord Stanley, of Preston, the Cover ,or-
General of Canada, is broad-shouldere i,
! patriciau- aud nine ard forty. lie
wears clos Fly cropped black beard; is de
voted to cold tub, and has taken kindly tc
tobogganiug. He is not a painfully brilliant
/ man, but he is emuently respectable. II
also The father OF eight children, and wi
one day be Earl of Derby aud one of ttt
richest men in Europe.