The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-04
PERSONAL AND ,MpERsonAL

1t takes the Sultan Of Turkey forty
minutes to say his prayers in royal form.
The spread of the English language
is indicated by the fact that IT was used
in tho framing OF recent treaty be-
tween Russia and China.
Tho first colored graduate from tho
department. of music of tho University
Of Pennsylvania is Miss Ida e. Bowser
Sho is an accomplished volnist and
has written several short sonatas.
1t is reported that Sir Edw IL Arnold,
who is at present in Japan at work upon
long poem which is to be compan on
to 'The Light OF ASIA" recently found
his long-lost son, who six years ago ran
away to sea and kept his whereabouts
unknown to his family.
Darby, tho great English jumper,
recently beat Parker and Short at Dud-
ley England, in n three-cornerod match
lie won five jumps, without weights.
81 feet SIX inches; one jump. with
Weights, II feet inches; ono jump,
without weights. 12 feet IL inches.
This last jump becomes tho worlds
record.
Saxon and Berlin dailies say that
Prince Bismarck has asked tho Emperor
to see to it that no monument snail DO
erected to him in Berlin during his ifo-
time. Tho cX-Chanccllor is said also to
have requested the Bismarck Monument
Committee to devote the money already
collected by it to tho construction of Il
memorial church in Berlin. In tho
Rcchstag Bismarck once said that 'it
disturbed him to walk by h s fossilized
self in kissingen and Cologne" Il am
not particularly susccpt bic" no said at
another time, ito this kind OF mani
fcsta alton of gratitude"
Ono OF tn" Indian boys, in writing
toa young lady of the namc OF King
says naivcly 81 would like TO say that
your last name is man name. | would
like to call you Queen, because that is
6 cd namo for woman" loud Bear
who measures six feet four inches in
he ght and s proportional accordingly,
writes chcerfully to friend: "AIy little
heart is Just rs full of JOY as it can be.
am happy young man from early
morning till late at night My life is
full Of e adncss, and | have not much to
trouble me, nor full my heart with sad
moss. Hampton (Va.) School Record.
There is family living in Athens.
Ga, whose head delights in long names
for tho children. Tho first child is
named Mary Magalina Mandy Mcctum
Elizabeth Betsy Polly Mack Barrett;
the second child is named Alico Georgia
Ann Yorena Barrett; the third child is
named Matto Frances Anna Tranna
Barrett; the fourth child is named
Emory Spear Walker Buster Barrett;
the fifth child is named lila Cory Cos
ton Estelle Liniment Ettie Is.duler
Barrett; the sixth child is named Mon
tinc Cinicar Barrett and the seventh
child is named Efiico Bozma Mondenay
Virginia Barrett.
"A Biddeford lawyer has mado ono
of the longest writs on record in Maine.
1t proceeded from n suit brought by one
Varney, Kennebunl Quaker, against
Mr. Ferguson, q Biddeford sash and blind
manufacturer, and contained an sac
count annexed" covering forty-two
sheets of long bill paper. Tho reason
for the extraordinary length Of the bill
was that the two men have traded to-
gether since 1866 and have never had a
settlement, as they kept their accounts
very nearly oven all tho time. MIR Var
ney short time ago. thought there
was balance due him, and this Ferru-
son disputed, hence the suit 1t took
week to transcribe the long account