Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-06-21
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

Mrs. GROVER CLEVELAND is at Marion,
Massachusetts.
NJ. L. DUBGIN, of Milo, Me, has not tasted
tea or coffee for IS years.
Ex-QUEEN isabella was conspicuous at
the last state ball in England.
Miss ZULA Woodruff has sailed for En-
gland to join her mother, who is seriously i'll
in London.
lola has made 100000 out of his books,
and the worst book of the lot made him the
most money.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has had an electric
railway built for bringing dishes from the
kitchen into the state diningroom.
CHIEF BELL, of the Secret Service, whom
Secretary Window removed, looks enough
like Buffalo Bill to be his twin brother.
Miss BRACKET, the writer and teacher,
has had a right-hand side-saddle made, and
rides on either side of her horse indiiferently.
SIR JAMES MILLER, owner of Sainfoin, the
winner of the Derby, is but % years of age.
He paid 800 guineas for his tleet-tooted
horse.
THE Michigan Agricultural College is
greatly lamentlng the loss of Prof II. C. Car
penter, who leaves that institution to take a
place in Cornell.
SENATOR QUAY has just presented to his
cane the stick of which he himself recently
cut in Florida.
ALEXANDER MCLEAN, wealthy Scotch
man, has purchased $1,000 acres of land in
Wyoming upon which he proposes to found a
city to be named after himself
SEGoULD A. QUAIL, a Norwegian, died re.
Gently in Eau Claire, Wis, leaving S1,000,0O0
for the establishment of a hospital at Madison
Tor persons crippled and detormed from birth.
Worth gives as much thought to one of his
wonderful gowns as poet would to poem.
His best creations are born at some quiet
French or German spa, and the detail wrought
out in his Paris house.
Recorder Smyth is one of the best paid Off
GERS in New York. He is said to be in receipt
of salaries aggregating $4,000 year, includ-
ing an allowance of 700 for Office rent. His
salary as judge is $4,000.
Miss NELLIE Arthur, daughter of the
late President Arthur, has developed into a
beautiful young lady, with a brilliant COM
plexion, large, soft brown eyes and graceful
figure. Her taste in dress is original and effec-
tive.
Miss WINNIE DAVIS will receive a novel
bridal present from Atlanta. Major Sidrav
Root is having an old fashioned country gourl
trimmed and braced with silver and will for
ward it, to be used as wall ornament or a
drinking cup
FLORENCE PULLMAN, the eldest daughter
of the palace car millionaire. is a sensible
young woman of p. She has brown hair and
eyes and a majestic carriage and is rather
pretty. She possesses 100000 in bank stock
in her own right.
GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN, of palace-car fame,
wears prominent white goatee. and dresses
with studied neatness, but without the slightest
tinge of foppery. His Summer palace on the
st. Lawrence is reckoned among the sights of
the Thousand Islands,
KING HUMBERT is prudent monarch. and
does well to be so, in the present state of the
kingdom S fiDauces Last year the civil list
for the royal household was Is, $4,000 francs.
and the King spent 10 ,349,999 francs % cent
lines leaving a cent and three-quarters to his
credit for the ensuing year.
The Shah's favorite wife is blind. Two
court physieiens recommended that she be
sent to two famous oculists in Vienna, who
! have performed on her eyes thedelieate opera
ZION of iridectomy, receiving from the Shah
$500 for their services. In the meantime
The court physicians who recommended the
operation have been locked up, and if the pa.
lent dies they will be put to death.