The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-11-06
PERSONAL AND iMPERsosAL


The spread OF the English languages
Is Indicated by the fact that II was used
In the framing Of q recent treaty be-
tween Russia and China.
The first colored graduate from the
department of music Of the University
Of Fennsyivania Is Miss Ida Z. Bowser.
She is an accomplished violinist and
has. written several short sonatas-
1T is reported that Sir Edwin Arnold,
who is at present in Japan at work upon
q long poem which Ia to be companion
10 ''The Light of Asia" recently found
bis long-lost son, who sir years ago ran
away to sea and kept his whereabouts
unknown to his family.
Darby, the great English jumper,
recently beat Parker and Short at Dnd-
ley, England, in three-cornered match.
He won five jumps, without weights.
81 feet 5H inches; one jump with
weights, Ii feet . inches; one jump.
without weights, 10 feet inches
This last 4ump becomes the worlds
record.
Saxon and Berlin~daflies say that
Prince Bismarck has asked the Emperor
to see to 1t that no monument shall be
erected to him in Berlin duringh his life
time. The ex-Chancellor is said4also to
have requested the Bismarck Monuments
Committee to devote the money already
collected by 1t TO the construction OF a.
memorial church in Berlin. In the
Reichstaq Bismarck once said that iii
disturbed him to walk by his fossilized
self in Kissingen and Cologne. " u am
not particularly susceptible; he said ~
another time, ito this kind Of mani
festation of gratitude"
One of tho Indian boys, in writing
to young lady Of the name OF King,
says naively: II would like to say that
your last name is man name. ] would
like to call you Queen, because that is
good name for woman" Cloud Bear,
who measures six feet four inches in
height, and is proportioned accordingly,
writes cheerfully to friend. my little
HEARTS just as full of joy as it can be.
am happy young man from early
morning till late at night My life is
full of gladness, and have not much to
trouble me- nor full my heart with sad.
ness. Hampton (va.) School Record.
There is family living in Athens,
Ca, whose head delights in long names
for the children. The first child 10
named Mary Magalina Mandy Mectum
Elizabeth Betsy Polly Mack Barrett;
the second child is named Alice Georgia
named Matte Frances Anna Tra4na
Barrett; the fourth child is named
Emory Spear Walker Buster Barrett;
the fifth child is named lila Cory Cos
ton Estelle Liniment Ettie Isiduler
Barrett; the sixth child is named Mon
tine Cinicar Barrett and the seventh
child is named Ef1ce Bozma Mondenay
Virginia Barrett.
"A Biddeford lawyer has made one
of the longest writs on record in Maine.
1t proceeded from suit brought by one
Yarney, q Kennebunk Quaker, against
Mr.. Ferguson, Bfddeford sash and blind
manufacturer, and contained an ''ac-
count annexed covering forty-two-
sheets of long bill paper. The reason
for the extraordinary length of the bill
was that the two men have traded to-
gether since 1896 and have never had a
settlement as they kept their accounts
very nearly even all the time Mr. Var.
ney, q short time ago, thought there
was balance due him, and this Fergu'
son disputed, hence the suit 1t took
week to transcribe the long account,
When the unknown Daudet, now
Daudet, the rich and famous, first came
up to Paris from Lyons, he was so poor
that he wore pair ofrubber boots with.
out slippers or stockings under them,
and ragged suit of summer clothes,
while he made his cold journey in
freight car, eating nothing for two days
to save expense. BY chance the EN-.
press saw a copy Of his poems, and
directed the Duo de Morny to send for
him. With the greatest difficulty tho
poor fellow persuaded tailor to trust
him for suit of clothes in which ha
might answer the Dukes summons ia
the Tuileries. But when De Morny OF.
fered him secretaryship with a salary
Of five thousand francs, his hardship
were, over forever.