Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-06-20
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE

J, ARMSTRONG CHAMBER, the husband Of
the. sensational novelist, Amelia Rived, is
suffering ifom nervous prostration.
EX-GOVERNOR GILPIN, of Colorado, and
wife, after lighting the divorce question in the
courts for years. have finally come to terms
and Will live together.
SENIOR ANTONIO BATREs, the new Guate-
malan Minister TO Washington, knows some
thing about the milk in the cOcoanut. He is
said to derive an income of about $40, 600 from
plantations of that fruit.
JOHN w. BooKwALTER, of Ohio, the art
Glonnolsseur and politician, has spent great
Zeal OF none experimenting In flying
machines, He believes such machine is
among the possibilities.
THE Czar of Russia will celebrate his silver
wedding next November, in moderate
fashion, ncar C6phenhagen. Immediately
thereafter, II invited, he will visit Emperor
William IN Berlin or Potsdam
BIsHoPJ. W. HoLT Of the United Brethren
Church, whose home is in Sacramento, is in
the East looking up young men for mission
work on the Pacific coast. He has been
moderately Successful fl his search.
THE Hon. Stephen Coleridge son of the
English Chief Justice is an artist of no mean
ability and has a collection of paintings Of the
Lake country on exhibition Just now. Ruskin
commended some Of his landscapes.
N. EIFFEL, the daring civil engineer, who
conceived the tower in Paris which bears his
name, lives up on the Jungtrad, In the Swiss
Alps; lie has just Obtained permission to
build railroad up the mountains to his very
high dwelling.
OSCAR WILDE's mother has suffered re-
versals through the loss of rents from her
Irish estates, but she is as bright and refresh
ing as ever, and caa rattle away in seven
different languages as if each one was her
native tongue, and she was bound to make its
charm appreciated.
PIERRE Lori, . the new French immortal,
is not the eiieminate epicurean one might
expect from his writings. A Paris letter de-
scrlbes him as short squat and burly turned
He is not society man, and is guilty of
wearing his naval uniform at dinner and
evening parties.
AN East Indian Prince has had bed made
Tor him in Paris, the mattress of which is q
huge musical box, while the canopy is sup
ported by automatic figures, which wave fans
and brighten away the mosquitoes. Its price
IS S35,VO0, and it would have been cheaper for
hun to hire two boys to fan the insects away
and to lull the sleeper to deeper repose by
the whistling Of Little Annie Rooney"
THE Princess of Wales and the Princesses
Victoria and Maud are TO proceed to Copen-
hagen about the middle of August, and they
viii be the guests of the King and Queen of
Denmark for two months at the Schloss of
Frtdensborg, where the Emperor and Empress
Of Russia, the King and Queen of the
HELEN s, and the Duchess Of Cumberland
are also expected.
SENATOR QUAY is great reader of current
literature and nearly all the new books and
magazines Of value find their way to his table
AT his modest house in Beaver he has we'll
selected library in which he spends much of
his time when political schemes are not claim
ing his attention. The gathering Of seals is a
hobby with him, and ne has accumulated a
choice collection of engraved gems.
EX-SENATOR INGALLS, and Judge Horton,
of Kansas, are political enemies, though both
Republicans and it is thought that the former
gentleman will not rejoice particularly over
the proposed appointment of the latter as a
member Of the new Land Grant Court. The
difference dates back to 1873, when Ingalls,
came into power, and when Horton was q
candidate for United States District Judge
The ccuator used his influence for the appoint.
ment OF a different man, and Horton is said to
have been uniriendiy ever since.