The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-11-20
Rates Of Advertising.
PERSONAL AND lMPERsoNAL.

--Elihu vedder, who has just returned
10 his home in Rome after four months
Tip ON the Milo, has $50 drawings
sketches and paintings with him as the
result Of his labors
-Baroness Julie de Fontenilliot who
has decided to go upon the stage, Is .
pretty blonde OF slight bus weli-rounded
figure, and is Of medium height her+
eyes are gray and her face most Sttracp-
ive
Most OF Napoleon's iove-letters were
written by an amanuensis and he usual
ly dictatedso rapidly that the writer
zhAd=te= fin fragment gaps from memory:
This was also the case with nearly all
of his correspondence, as Napoleon MAS
inclined to shun letter-writing.
DIR. Junker, who learned in Central
Africa to live on ants and various other
delicacies Of the savage nations says
that IL white explorers would accustom
themselves to native food they would
keep in better health and would not
mind when their European resources
were exhausted.
Mrs Al Crane, of Brooks County,
Georgia. sixty-five years old, raised last
year, with the help Of ono little boy,
four bales OF cotton, 200 bushels OF corn.
meat enough for the year, and an
abundant supply Of oats, fodder etc.
All the outside help she had was the
hiring Of a man for one day and the
picking OF 500 pounds OF cotton
Prof. virchow is one Of the most
distinguished physicians and scientists
on the continent Of Europe. lie has
lust paid the American medical world .
high tribute, declaring that 1t excels
in surgery, midwifery, and dentistry
what the Germans know about dentistry
they learned from America America
has also splendid oculists. N =.
Christian Advocate.
Colonel Webb, OF Chester, N. J., is
in the ninetieth year Of his age. He
can stand upon q chair, bend backward,
touch his head upon the floor and rise
up again without the aid Of his hands.
He goes fishing nearly every day in the
Black river, stands In the water up to
his knees from morning until night and
ofttimes lands as many as fifty catfish q
day. Who OF that age can beat this
| record ?' s=s==zszz==s-s-r
The monument of Pestalozzi at
Yverdon, lately inaugurated, has these
inscriptions; ITO Pestalozzi, 1746-1s27.
I Erected by popular subscription, 1890 "
81 lived like beggar to show beggars
how they ought to live as men," Saw
Tor OF the poor in Neuhof. Father OF
| the orphans IN Stauz. Foundersef the
popular school In Burgdorf Educator
Of men In Yverdon. All for others,
nothing for himselfi'
Prosper Crabbe, whose really impor-'
tant collection Of pictures was sold two
weeks ago, began life as reporter on
the Independence Beige. The editor
| soon told him that he never would mako
living as a newspaper man, and he be-
came stockbroker and died worth 30,
900, 600 francs in money besides his
other properties. The two highest
/ priced pictures at his sale were Della
1 creix's ss.Tiger Hunt 70, 600 francs, and
Rembrandts portrait Of an admiral, 1885,
500 francs.
--Woodford Sanders, Virginia artist,
has been creating a stir in Natchez,
Miss, by painting portraits Of deceased
persons whom he never saw. ALI that
he needs is verbal description from
somebody. The NatcheZ Banner, speak
ing of the artist, says: "The evidence
he has given the people Of Natchez Of
his powers as an artist stamps Mr.. San
ders as the greatest living artist in
/ America or perhaps abroad. The South
should feel genuine pride in his fame,
as he is native of the Old Dominion
State, and Is the only Southerner living
who has achieved such wonderful sue
cess, almost the highest pinnacle OF