The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-10-02
Personals AND IMPERsoNAL.


Miss Abigail Dodge Gail Hamii-
ION j teaches Sunday schoo! GLASS that
meets every Sunday at Secretary
Blsine's residence.
There is said to be . striking SINH
larity between the sigh language used
By deaf mutes and that in vogue among
the Indians Of North and South Americas
-TbearQueep Of Spain speaks most
excellent English, She Il thirty years
old and a woman Of extraordinary 40
complishments in social and business
ways
Edgar Grouse. the New York mill
lionaire, is having grand piano built
specially to ct q niche In his S400, 900
stable. Probably he thinks music will
lessen the time OF his 2:to horses.
"A poor, wretched, rich woman died
Of starvation the other day in London,
sitting in chair hugging : package Of
gold valued at $50, 900. She was too
sttngy to buy herself the 'commoness
food.
On an uptown street in Philadel-
phia there are six houses adjoining each
other in which the wives are all sisters.
The last was married month ago, ana
last week secured the house Adjoining
those OF her sisters
A new tenor has been found in Ger
many at the village Of Fischer. named
Kautor, possessing all the attributes "a
a great singer, including the high g
He will DO carefully educated by his dis
coyerer, an impresario.
Mrs. Sheridan has Withdrawn all
most utterly from tho world. Within
the walls Of her beautiful home in Wash
ington she lives in quiet, unostenta-
tious grief for her loved husband and in
beautiful motherly devotion to her four
children.
Tho Austrian Archdukc Francis
Ferdinand is excecdingly wealthy, and is
valetcd to perfection, but he can not be
said to be handsome person. He has
short body with very long limbs,
small head perchcd on long neck and
prodigious nose.
Charles Stewart Parnell is close
reader of American newspapers and
American literature generally. Balfour,
Chief Secretary for Ireland, is also an
OmnlVorOuS Ttauer VI hhoilSsn hSWo
papers. and recently said; u like the
snap of the American writer's"
Rev Charles Weston, o Wisconsin
minister, has married his wife, Stella
Weston, nine times in=nine years. Re-
Gently he requested her to go through
the ceremony for the tenth time, where
upon Mrs. Weston filed suit in Provi-
dence, r. l., and asks for divorce in
stead. She is of the opinion that the
honeymoon ought not to have too long
a run.
The Gar OF Russia is in such o state
Of apprehension that he now only cats
food which has been prepared In
kitchen that djoins his library Every
conceivable precaution is taken TO pro-
tect the Emperor against poison, and he
has ceased to eat eggs since somebody
discovered that they can be poisoned by
the insertion Of needle, which does
not oerceptibly break the shell.
1T takes seven million niles Of
thread to hold the people Of the United
States In their clothes. II each person
has three sets Of clothing year-and
certainly that is low average--there
is created, in consequence, yearly de-
mand for more than twenty million
miles OF this little strand, which, by it
self on the spool, seems so insignificant
that 1t is only by taking an aggregate
view that we realize the Importance Of
the thread-making industry Young
Woman's Magazine.