Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-07-12
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE

QUEEN VIcroRIA's dinner hour isnstu until
Q IN the evemuV,
GAIL HAMILTON recently sent for we'd
ding present complete set OF her own books.
LEWIS RAiAToN. Cherokee, is the Indian
TO be granted citizenship under an act OF Con-
gress approved May -, lSlu.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has had an electric
railway built Tor bringing dishes from the
kitchen into the dining room.
Pro PIco. known AZ the last Mexican Gov.
ernor Of California, is living m great poverty
Ia that State. lie Is W yearsold.
MRS. REAGAN. wife Of the Texan Senator
learned shorthand. withOuta teacher. in order
10 become her husbands private secretary.
REV. HERMAN HALsEY, Of niagara county,
N. Y, now claims to be the oldest graduate
lie took degree from Williams College In
1911.
THE PORE recently administered frss COM
munion with his own hands TO the son Of Gen.
eral de Charette, the well.knOwn French l.egi-
timist
JONI @. WHITTIER, the venerable poet has
left Dsnyers, where he has been spending the
Winter with his cousina and has returned to
his home In Ameshuty.
REV. SAM SMALL, who recently accepted
the presidency OF a Methodist college IN tab,
now says he viii run for the Georgia LcHiaia.
.
Miss HANNAH PuRvIs, Of North Lewis.
burg, o., is one Of the few women who are
authorized to solemnize marriages. She is a
minister Of the Society Of Frieuds.
HUBERT nEBKoMgR ihedistingusl e rit.
fish artist. who IL almost equally famous a. q
composer Of operas, an architect aud ptac-
teal wood-carger, was at one tine an ONO
boy.
DoSALoG G. MITcIsgtI, ak Marvel" isnow
sixty-eight years Of age. lie lives quietly &C
"EnRewood,' which has been his home since
1856 aud which be has rendered 80 we'll.
known by has writings.
Mr. GLADSTONE. while recently walking in
Hawarden village, WIS approached by an ANA.
teur photographer who begged him to stand
still while his picture could be taken, and the
q. o. NJ. good 'naturedly complied.
Mr.. GEORGE VANDERBILT Keeps adding
10 his land estate IN B1neumbe county, NC.
His last purchase Is tNtcittlpiaht acres Of land
adjoining his place, Biltmore, for which he
'aid S53OOO. being near sl21 per acre.
DIR. JoHH HALL, Of the Fifth Avenue New
York; Presbyterian Church, has been nearly
twenty-thrce years lis pastor and In that time
has been absent from the pulpit but twice ON
oceOunt OF sickness
SIR FREDERICK I.EIGnrOy, president Of
the British Royal Academy, Is one ofthe hand.
soonest men 10 England. An enthusiastic ad-
mirer describes him a. having head like
that Of "a Greek god aud bearing like that Of
an ideal prince"
GENERAL GLISoaAs, an ex-senator from
North Carolina and a major general In the
Confederate Army. is now a tail old man with
an erect figure aud thin white hair. While
whiskes rover his hollow cheeks and be sin
every way conspicuous parsonage.
LORD TESsYsos's health j. fairly re-estab-
lished. The Laureate j. able 10 take his two
hours morning walk without fatigue, and We
may hope for more poems from his hand. His
elder brother's poems are shortly 20 be pub.
lished. Frederick Isnnysoa, who u 81 years
old, lives in jersey.
VERDI Is reported from Geneva 10 be IN o..
cellent health aud although his white hair and
flowing beard give him venerable appear.
ance his eyes are full Of IRE. lie will not NJ.
nit that "Othel0" is bis lost work and says
there is no telling what lac may YET II The
inspiration comes 10 him.
JUSTIN HUETLY MCCARTHY author u
4The French Revolution" is not the entertain
ing novelist and historian Of Our Own lines,
and The -Four Jcofges," but the s0n Of tho
latter. lie is. like Die father a Parueilits
member OF Pafiiament lie is n successful
Playwright The tanbidaie," Charles Wyld-
hams comedy, being from bis pen.