Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-06-06
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE

Ex-PREsIDENT HAYES within the last few
years has grown old very perceptibly. His
hair and beard are almost white.
JOHN d. ROCKEFELLER has sent word to
the Ohio oil fields that hereafter the Standard
pumps must remain idle during the Sabbath.
ELLEN TERRY describes stage fright as a
feeling something like this: "As if a centipede
with iced feet were running about the roots Of
your hair"
THE Queen of Denmark is an expert dress
maker and good pastry cook. Her daugh-
tiers also are all clever needlewomen, and so is
the CzARIkA of Russia.
Ex-MINIsTER JOHN A. KAssoN thinks
that no statesman has exercised so strong a
personal influence over alien monarchs and
cabinets as has Bismarck.
J. E. BOYD, the ousted Governor of Ne
braska, looks like clergyman with his black
frock coat, lOw-cut vest and white tie. His
cheeks are rudy with health.
Dom PEDRO, who has returned to his resi-
dence at Versailles after sojourn of several
months at Cannes, is going to England about
the middle of June fer two months.
BIERsTADT will paint for the Worlds Fair
picture of Watlings Island, which many
geographers believe to be the one on which
Columbus first lended after crossing the At
lantie.
STR MoRELL MACKENZIE, the distinguished
BRITISH physician, is a slender and active man
of torty-three. He began life as a clerk in
store, but before he was thirty he had become
an authority on diseases of the throat.
THE COUNTESS DE NUREMBERG, who was
recently married to a member Of the Imperial
House OF Russia has negro blood in her veins.
She is a daughter Of the poet Pushzin, who
was descendant Of a negro fayorite of Peter
the Great.
CoNGREss0i AN ELECT STEWART, Of Illinois,
is the George Francis Train Of his town Ar-
rora, IN one respect. Whenever acircus comes
along near there he charters a special train
and takes a lot of children to the show at his
own expense.
MRS. GENERAL CUSTER has never dropped
her widows weeds. She gowns herself plainly
in lustreless black, relieved by white collar
and deep white cuffs. Her face must have
been exceedingly pretty before grief destroyed
Its freshness.
Miss PADDOCK, the daughter of Maggie
Mitchell, looks very much like her mother,
but is so different from her that she has hardly
crossed the threshold of dressing room or
seen the glare Of the footlights, except family
and from far away.
COLONEL ]. c. BUNDY, the Spiritualist
editor, tells the women Of Chicago that as
class they are the worst enemies that woman
suffrage has. They are swayed TOO easily by
emotion and misled by sentiment, and to adj
vance the cause should cultivate courage and
backbone.
Miss LOUISE IMoGEN Quincy, tine poet
and essayist, who has been appointed city poet
for the memorial exercises 10 be held in Bos-
ton next month in honor of General Sherman,
will be remembered as the poet Of the Grant
Memorial given in Boston in 1885. Miss
Guiney's father enlisted as a private in
Massachusetts regiment and by his bravery
rose to the rank Of brigadier-general.
SARAH BERNHARDT does not seem to have
a correct idea as to the resources of Australia.
She has shipped TO that country for her use
while touring there, eighty-one cases Of cham
payne, two kegs Of brandy, and package of
whisky. 1t is not stated whether the package
of whisky is a deInijohn or barrel, but it is
an even chance that it is the latter. Persons
who have visited Australia could have in.
formed Sarah that II has been many years
since there has been a liquor famine in that
country.