The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-11-12
Personal AND iMpERsoNnL.

Mrs Campbeffs the wife ct 0hfot
governor. is tall. handsome runcs4e,
and Is credited with much tact
"A hired girl in Maine invariably
puts pin III her mouth when she ii
going to peel onions She says that Il
prevents her eyes from watering.
Ex-sscretary Bayard Is growing
fat. His face has beeome set In severe
lines, and his hair has whitened rapidly
since death robbed him Of his wife and
his favorito daughter.
Rev Phillips Brooks Is said to be
the fastest speaker In the world. Yer
batiIn reporters who timed him found
that he speaks on an average two hum
bred and twelve words minute Siam.
mering in his youth is accountable for
his remarkable haste in speech
Mrs. Josie Armstrong died in Chi
cago recently at the age of ITO years
Mrs. Armstrong is said to be the colored
woman who nursed Abraham Lincoln's
wife and it is alleged her son played
with little Abe before the latter had
learned the art Of splitting rails
Philip George d. Epinois is perhaps
He was born in 1904, and still discharges
the duties Of t,urgomaster in his native
village of Epinois les Binche. The
Chevalier d'Epinois was one of tho civic
guards who welcomed Leopold I.gto
Belgium sixty wears ago.
AT Wichita, Kan, two trvthers
who had been separated for twelve
years met in the county jail Both
were going under assumed names, but
one day while comparing notes they
found that they were from the same
town in Pennsylvania One Of them
finally told his own name, and the
other at once recognized him as q
brother .i
"A young woman at Cincinnati
thought she would commit suicide and
gave friend some money to defray her
funeral charges She changed her mind
about the suicide and then demanded
her money back The friend declined
to refund and insisted in keeping the
money for the purpose intended. but
the court has decided that she must
give it up.
Xavier Jouvin, the once famous
glove-maker Of Grenoble, France, has
been honored by statue in his native
town. He invented machine for cut.
ting out leather gloves, and perfected a
method by which only one seam was
necessary in the thumb At the Maison
Jouvin thousands of men and women
are now employed. NJ Jouvin's widow
has recently died at GreHeble.
"A young man in Berlin, Germany,
stepped upon cherry, slipped, fell
against a window and had his nose al
most severed from his face. A young
lady came forward and acknowledged
that she had carelessly thrown the Access
serial fruit upon the sidewalk; and her
parents promptly betrayed the bill OF
the surgeon who stitched on the young
mans nose, amounting to four hundred
and fifty marks.
MIR Humphrey Moore, agxSell known
artist in Paris. is deaf mute, but SO
bright and cordial is his manner that
one scarcely realizes the terrible af-
Fiction which is his inheritance. His
wife is a beautiful, intelligent Spanish
girl who interprets conversation to her
husband, and keeps him in touch with
the social life of the city. Mr.. Moore's
specially is Japanese scenery and life,
which he reproduces with charming
fidelity to nature. He has exhibited at
the Royal academy of London. the In
ternational fine arts exhibition of Der.
lin and the Paris salon.