Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-06-13
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE

Mrs. HENRY WARD BEEcHER is looking
much improved by her trip Westward.
PIERRE LoTTI is the first member of the
French Academy who has gone in under
non de plume.
Mr.. GLADSTONE Is obliged to stay at
Hawarden for another fortnight, his recent i'll :
ness having left traces in his lungs of bad
cough.
LADY HARcoURT, the historian Motley's
daughter, is one of the eleyerest women in
London society. She is very handsome, and
has more than local celebrity because of her
wit.
EX-GOVERNOR JOHN P. ST. JOHN, of Kan
sas, though he has doubtless looked ia mir
ror thousands of times, nevertheless says of
the recent Cincinnati reform convention: 1t
Is the biggest failure | ever saw.
SAMUEL NOBLE, founder of Admission, Ala.
is being done" in granite, to perpetuate his
memory in that city. The statue represents
him standing beside pile of pig-iron stacked
up Impressively like cordwood.
THE Prince of Wales has an income ofa
million dollars that the British public pays
for the support of himself and his family. The
Queen, i'll addition, gives him an annual al
lowance of about quarter Of that amount.
john LoUDoN MAcADAM. the inventor of
the road that bears his name, labored for
years TO perfect his ideas and, although the
English Parliament voted him $4,000, it
hardly covered his outlay. Ellis monument
is the reads of England
Mr.. BLAINE'S name was used in a compli-
mentary way in Cincinnati last Sunday by the
Rev. j. d. Fulton, Of Quebec, in an address
delivered in Baptist church; where upon
many members of the congregation clapped
their hands, in spite Of the time and place.
REV. SAM JONES, after preaching two hours
md hiatt
night recently, asked permission of his con-
gregation to take off his coat, which was read.
lily granted. The noted evangelist then finished
his discourse in his shirt sleeves.
LADY MACDONALD, the wife of the Can
adian Premier, is a remarkable woman. She
is tall, with abundant white hair, and a face
that's stamped with energy and determination
She is a cleaver talker, an omniverous reader,
and the possessor of extraordinary social
graces She is frequently in attendance at
the sittings of Parliament.
REV. w. P. BROWN, of Missouri, is a mem
Der of the Whitmer branch of the Mormon
Church, which repudiates not only polygamy,
but the prophetic mission of Joseph Smith
He has figured that the second coming of Christ
will be this Summer, has sold his property,
and is going to Jerusalem, to be upon the
ground ready for the great event
THE young King of Spain, who has just
completed his 9TH year, Is beginningto ride on
ponies. His activity, willful disposition, and
inquisitive curiosity make him a sharp con
trast to his more tranquil-minded sisters In
two years His Majesty will have a separate
household, and already he has shaken off the
attendance of his Asturian nurse, showing a
preference for male attendants.
! CHRISTINE NILSSON entertained at dinner
not long ago, the two divas, Patti and Albani
and the three queens of song were attired in
the sumptious simplicity of theValois or Tudor
period. They hummed a few snatches of
songs together, as they did long ago, before
titles troubled them, and were charmingly
sweet to each other, but they did not appear
together in public.
HIRAM HUNT who recently died at Rob
binston, Me-, is said to have been the original
clock maker of Sam Slick" lie was selling
clocks in Nova Scotia, when he came under
the notice of the author. He never felt proud
of the notoriety which the book gave him, and
resented illusions to i. His age at the time of
lis death was nearly years. A number of
his wooden clocks are still in existence.
MRS. CHARLES G. AMEs, of Boston, one of
the two women recently appointed by Cover
nor Russell as factory inspectors has made a
study of organized charity for years. She
worked in the hospitals during the war, and
after her marriage to the present pastor of the
Church of the Disciples, in Boston, was made
president of the Children's Aid Society Liv-
ing then in Philadelphia she was occupied in
much charitable work and reform i'll Pennsyl-
vania.