The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-15
PERSONAL AND lMPERsoNAL.

PERSONAL AND lMPERSONAL.
-Elihu Vedder, who has just returned
to his home in Romo after four months
trip on the Nile, has $50 drawings,
Sketches and paintings with him as the
result of his labors
Baroness Julie de Fontenilliot, who
has decided to go upon tho stage, is a
pretty blonde of slight but vel Grounded
figure, and is Of medium height Her
eyes are gray and her face most attract
i've.
Most of Napoleon's lovc-letters were
written by an amanuensis, and he usual
ly dictated so rapidly that the writer
had TO I'LL frequent gaps from memory.
rms was also the case with nearly all
OF his correspondence, as Napoleon was
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 If 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. a. Il. Crane, of Brooks County,,
Georgia, siXtyfivc 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 man for one day and the
picking of 500 pounds of cotton.
Prof Virchow is one Of the most
distinguished physicians and scientists
on tho continent of Europe He has
just paid the American medical world n
high tribute, declaring that it excels
in surgery, midwifery, and dentistry;
what tho Germans know about dentistry
they learned from America America
has also splendid oculists. IN. Y.
Christian Advocate.
Colonel Webb, of Chester, n. J., is
in tho ninetieth year of his age. He
can stand upon chair, bend backward,
touch his head upon the floor and riso
up again without the aid of his hands
lie goes fishing nearly every day in the
Black river, stands i'll the water up to
his knees from morning until night, and
ofttimes lands as many as fifty catfish a
day. Who of that age can beat this
record?"
The monument of Pcstalozzi at
4verdon, lately inauguratcd. has these
Inscriptions ITO Pestalozzi. 174G-lS27.
Erected by popular subscription, 1890. -
II lived like Il beggar to show beggars
how they ought to live as men," Say
Tor of tho poor in Neuhof. Father of
the orphans in Stauz. Founder of the
popular school in Burgdorf Educator
OF men in Yverdon. All for others,
nothing for himsclf.'
Prosper Crabbc, whose reallyimpor-
tant collection Of pictures was sold two
weeks ago, began lfo as a reporter on
the Independence Beige The editor
soon told him that he never would make
n living as newspaper man, and he be-
came stockbrolker and died worth SO. :
600, 600 francs in money besides his
other properties. The two highest
priced pictures at his sale were Della
croiX's Tiger Hunt" &c, 900 francs. and
Rembrandts portrait of an admiral, 1OG,-
500 francs.
-Woodford Sanders, Virginia artist,
has been creating stir in Natchcz,
Miss, by painting portraits of deceased
persons whom he never saw. All that
he needs is Il verbal description from
somebody. The Natchcz Banner, speak
ing of the artist, says: 1.-The evidence
he has given tho 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 tho highest pinnacle Of
art