The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-12-04
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The Crown Princess Of Denmark =
che tallest Princess In the world Her
height Is announced 70 b nix feet three
Inches.
Mira Maria Beers 100 years old, OF
Cheshire, Conn, can repeat Without .
break, It Is said. lines OF poetry she
learned seventy-dve years ago, and she
can write her name without thu, aid o.
spectacles
Get all the cranberry with your
restaurant turkey this winter that tho
.s.w allows. Whatever the potato may
be. the cranberriss are cheap The
Cape Cod crop y the biggest ever known.
and you can count on corresponding
supply from New Jersey.
Helen Keller. pupil OF Perkins In
stitute for the Blind in Boston, was
blind. deaf and dumb, but she has been
taught to speak intelligently. Though
only ten years Of age, she has already
acquired considerable education and
is credited with the faculty Of forget
ting nothing.
DIR Pellegrini, the newly-elected
President OF the Argentine Republic,
is.a cousin OF the celebrated English
statesman, the late Mr.. John Bright
His grandmother maiden name was
Priscilla Bright the favorite sister OF
Mr.. Bright's father, Jacob Bright She
married Quaker gentleman Of London,
named Bevan, who went out In the IN
terests of science to Buenos Ayres
An American girl writes from Lon
don to the Philadelphia Times that
English people Of the upper classes are
far from handsome. She says: I'VE
went several times 10 the opera And
theaters and as 1t was during the sea-
son we had the opportunity Of seeing
good deal OF the English aristocracy,
and plgyher set never saw. II blue
blood looks like that give me red "
Fortune has cequetted with Tom
Cruise, of Montana Three times she
made him millionaire and three times
reduced him to poverty, whore she orig
inally found him Cruise did not de-
spair however, and Is now worth S5 o0o,-
900, with good prospects Of his retaining
his wealth a. long as he will require IT,
as he is now, an old man. He made his
money in gold and silver mines.
"A Mexican editor must not DO too
previous printing news the same week
1t happens. Recently one abode some
little time in Jail because he surprised
| the officials and most OF all the criminal
by publishing the latter's wrongdoings
as soon as he got wind Of 1t. The Mex
lean officer of Justice prefers not to mo-
tify the criminal that the public are
onto him until the police are onto the
criminal.
interesting auction caie In Lon
don disposed OF the wardrobe Of a fash-
ionable modern beau The most ele-
CANT article was magnificent oyercoat
silk padded within, satin-fe0ed with
out, trimmed with an abundance OF
| superb velvet trimmings. There was
lovely shaving pad worked with the
1 picture of the owner mounted on q fiery
steed, which was painted in very
chaste style.
Henry Arthur Jones, the English
dramatist, is slight in figure and about
forty years old. He was born on small
farm in Buckinghamshire and 1t the
age Of thirteen began earning his own
living. When he was eighteen years
old he visited London as commercial
traveller and saw his first theatrical per
Torrance. So delighted was he that he
then determined to become play
wright and for the next nine years de-
voted his time to writing plays, which
no one would produce. His fame began
In 1879. when Wilson Barrett accepted
"a Clerical Error, q clever little work
which every other London manager had
rejected. Mr.. Jones now stands at the
head OF his profession. He lives In
London. has a happy and helpful wife,
and Is the father OF several children.