The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-07-24
PERSONAL AND lMpERsonAl.

LII isa curious coincidence that the
representative sons OF Bismarck and
Gladstone should bear the name Her
bert
When r. r. Barnnm WAS introduced
to Sir Arthur Sullivan he remarked: II
am glad TO have the opportunity Of meet
ing you. You are celebrated am mo-
torious."
=zfsen Butler Is reported te be wortha
S., o0o. 900. He has law ofiices in several
cities and practice worth 500, 900
year. Lowell 10 the place he calls his
homo, and his residences there 10
palace.
The largest landowner In the world
Is said to be Mru Emma r. Forsyth.
the daughter Of former American Con-
sui at Samoa. She has 4 plantation OF
one hundred and fifty Thousand acres on
an island near New Guinea, ana en-
ploys over Ave hundred people on it
1T was regularity OF the late SANE
uel j. Randall that he left the handling
OF his own financial matters to his wife,
1t was q common occurrencc Tor those
who were frequently ut his home to
hear him call to his young son Sammy
to ask mother for so cents or 81 where
with to buy postage stamps
This is how General sherman ex-
presses himself abotit the telephone:
It's one OF the biggest Of modern muir
sances. I've tried the telephone ten
thousand, times and never knew IT to
work right II | want to send mos
sage / believe in putting man on
horse and letting him deliver It
The secret OF long life Is said, by
George Bancroft, to be nothing moro
than the power, either natural or ac-
quired, Of controlling the temper III
you will never get angry" he says, you
will live to be ninety" The venerable
historian has probably applied his own
theory with good practical results, as he
has already reached his ninetieth year.
Although General John c. Fremont
is eighty years old he has always been
active business mani He kept an
Office in an ld-fashioned building on
lower Broadway, New York, where he
gave his attention to mining schemes
and other speculative enterprises. The
Generals mind Is clear, and he takes as
keen an interest In public events as he
did when in the prime Of life.
-Chauncey NJ Depew Is quoted as
making the interesting statement that
about hundred men whom he can re-
call as having been famous in Wall
street during the war for fortunes made
suddenly in speculative deals, and who
have since dropped out Of sight are now
life insurance agents. He said he at
tended an insurance banquet recently
and seyenty-fve per cent. Of the agents
present had formerly been famous as
successful Wall street traders ~
There are now living in Washington
married couple, Paul and Albina He'll
! mtith, who were born at Baden, Ger
many, February /, 1s47, within four
miles ofeach other. Even through their
childhood, playing in the streets OF tho
same town, they were strangers to each
other. In the course of events they
came across the ocean to the land OF
promise, and at different times and by
different paths they drifted to Washing
ton, where they met, and loved and
welded. Upon comparing notes to take
out their marriage license they dis
covered, to their mutual surprise and
qualification, that they were not only
natives Of the same place but rejoiced In
exactly the same aces to A dav