Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-10-31
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE
JoAerIs Muller has been styled the poet

JOAQUIN MILLER has been styled the poet
fariat of America.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN was The FIRST President
10 issue Thanksgiving proclamation.
Dr.. MAcuHF, vino has become prominent
figure i'll the Farmers Alliance, was formerly
hotel clerk at Georgetown. Tex.
THE King of Siam is attended by a body
guard composed exclusively of 1000 of the
prettiest young women in his realm.
CHARLES francis ADAMS has been ap.
pointed by the Massachusetts, Historical
Society TO write the memoir of Edmond
Gu ney.
REV. THOMAS Dixon, OF New York has
coined an expressive phrase that IS likely TO
stick. lie calls the controversy over DIR.
Briggs holy peanut politics.
Nh. JOHN d. ROCKEFELLER, the Standard
OIL magnate, has spent the Summer on his
Ohio farm, where. for the sake of his health,
he has worked side by side with his men.
FRANCIS E. WILLARD wants to have pro-
iessor OF total ahstinanee connected with the
new American University at Washington, and
proposes to raise fund to support such
professorship.
JOHN HOWARD PARNELL, brother of the
late Charles Stewart Parnell, resides in
Atlanta, Ga. Though living there for the
past twenty-four years, he has never TAKEN
out citizen papers.
HORACE NJ. ScUDDER, the editor of the
Atlantic Monthly, will write the memoir of
Henry W. Longlellow, which had previously
assigned to Mr.. Lowell for the Massachusetts,
Historical Society.
FRANCIS NJ. FINCH, Judge of Appeals who
has Just been elected dean of Cornell Uni
yersity Law School, is the author of the
pathetic and popular poem entitled, The
Blue and the Gray"
QUEEN VICTORIA has in her possession a
dress woven entirely of spiders webs, which
for tneness and beauty is said to surpass the
most splendid silk. twas gift from the
Il press of Brazil in 1877.
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL'S grand
father committed suicide, and so did two
other members of the family. There are also
two persons of unsound mind among the
immediate relations of the dead leader. Genius
Is allied TO insanity.
TAsKER POLK, of North Carolina, nephew
OF President Polk, is now the nearest of KIN
surviving his distinguished relative, and will
seek to have his uncle's will carried out, by
which he should inherit the Nashville estate.
But Mrs. Folks adopted daughter and resi-
Quarry legatee will contest the will, and some
interesting litigation is promised.
LOUIS PRANG, the famous Boston chrome
photographer, was a Prussian calico printer at
the age of Is. ard was travelling through
Europe for Bohemian manufacturer TO pick
up information when the revolution of 1878
broke out. lie was sympathizer, aud was
obliged to flee TO Switzerland, and then came
to New York in 1859. Immediately after
ward he settled in New England. lie tried
half dozen ventures, and misfortune fol-
loved him faithfully. lie did poorly in
one business that he sold out all his rights
after years hard work for $25, but with that
$50 he got togeth the capital which in after
years enabled HIM to start lithographing
shop. Ii was an illness that caused him to
relnquish his trade OF wood-engraying and
started him in the line that brought fame and
fortune