The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-06-05
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.


Connecticut Yankee, SO years old.
Mrs. J. B. Potter has been ordered to a
saltwater cure near BiarritZ.
Wilkie Collins left over e2O, 900, in
Guiding pictures and old furniture.
A son of De Quincy is Sergeant at
Arms in the New Zealand Parliament
The late Henry Westover, coachman to
the Prince of Wales, left over $45, 600.
Royal, son of Ex-Governor Carol, Of
Maryland, will shortly sail for Africa to
hunt lions.
Mrs. Francis II. Burnett is writing a
reply to Mrs. Winthrop, who called her
plagiarist
Mr.. Ostermeyer, of st. Louis, paid
S1.60 for case of spoiled eggs at an ex-
press auction.
Private Secretary Halford is to teach
Bible class in the Church of the Coven-
ant, Washington.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward has recently
been offered So 900 for story that shall
contain 10000 words.
John W...Garrett's only daughter, May,
devotes her fortune mainly to the educa-
ton of her sex.
One hundred thousand copies of the
book Westward Hu!" have been sold in
London within few days.
The son of Baron de Fava, Italian min
lister to the United States, has been ma
turalized, and will follow civil engineer
ing.
Mrs. Eliot F. Shepard will build
seventeen story building for a Young
Women's Christian Association of New
York.
A single sheet of paper six feet wide
and seven and three-fourths miles long
paper works.
Mr.. w. III. Smith, the leader of the
British house of commons, has recently
built new Church at Portsea, at cost
of more than $4,000.
What glorious thing it would be if
poor man could cut out of g. cent news
paper the picture of $1,000 house and
get it built for 81, 200.
Female students are now admitted to
Wesleyan university, and there are six
of them in its classes along with the
young men this year.
A Hartford fodder, told that children
should be seen and not heard, gave the
door a lang and cried: II don't want to
be seen; want to be heard.
The silver threads are daily growing in
numbers in Mr.. Jay Gould's once inky
beard, but nobody has yet had the tenn
Gritty to take him for gray"
Justice Field still clings to the white
plug hat which came in style during the
Greeley campaign. and with it an ILL
fitting suit of black broadcloth.
A Waverly, OIich } man saw his wife's
foot sticking up above the lower end of
the bed, and thinking it was burglar,
he shot at it. His wife now imps.
Mrs. Fl. B. Burnett, "queen of the
house lobby" and the widow who, in the
presence of Mrs. Cleveland, Rugged Tim
Campbell for aiding her pension claim,
is dead.
Lady Guinness is said to have given an
order for diamond necklace which it
will take several years to make, owing
to the present scarcity of stones of the
first water.
The proudest boast among Cuban
women is the dainty smallness of their
feet. They require nothing larger in the
way of footgear than No. 1 size for
American women.
The widow of Millionaire Smell, who
was killed by Burglar Tascott, will erect
a memorial to her husband in Union
Park, Chicago. 1t will serve as a shelter.
a drinking fountain and clock tower
The drouth on the Magdelen Islands
has been so severe this season that, in the
absence of water, farmers have had to
give their cattle milk to drink. A Do
minion inspector of revenue makes this
statement.
One of the visitors to the Eiffel Tower
has expressed in the Paris Figaro his
sense of its height: AZ would throw
myself down from the top but that I am
afraid of dying from hunger before
reach the bottom"
Princess Sophie's chief wedding gift is
a magnificent parure of turquoises and
diamonds, consisting of stomacher, ear
rings, necklace, and bracelets, which is
Queen Victoria, and the Prince of Wales.
Within the last two months, says a
Columbia, S. G. dispatch to the Cincin-
natl Enquirer, there has been brisk de-
mand i'll that section for Confederate
greenbacks and bills of defunct State
banks. They are mostly used by trav-
elers to hand over to train robbers.
In New York there is remarkable
growth of the number of women who are
students of the higher branches of edu-
cation, and the reports from England
show that, in this respect, English dam
sells are keeping abreast of the American
sisferhood- -TNew York SIM
The sheriff of Choteau county, Mon
tana, has sold out, under a chattel mort
gage held by the New York Loan and
Trust Company, 5000 head of cattle and
$50 horses, the property of a cattle COM
pany organized six years ago by Russell
B. Harrison. The president was one of
the stockholders.
A remarkable passenger who arrived in
Las Vegas, N. NJ, the other night was a
little boy named Manuel Brazil, years
old, who came alone from the Azores ISL
ands, off the coast of Portugal, to meet
his uncle, cattleman who lives near
Fort Sumner, and with whom he viii
hereafter make his home. The little fell
low landed in Boston, and from there
went across the continent to Sacramento,
Cal, and from Sacramento to Las Vegas.
It was wonderful trip for child of his
years, alone. and unable to speak Eng
lish to make, but he got through in good
order.
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