The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-05-14
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAl.

El;ta Proctor Otis hns given
some Of her monciogues At Marlborough
House, before the Prince and Princess
Of Wales.
"A Chicago professor says there arc
twenty thousand farmers In the ar
west who must abandon their lands BE-
cause nature never intended the country
to support any thing but snakes and
wolves.
--Anroe Brown claims the distinction
Of being the largest woman In Georgia.
She is forty-seven years old and hves ~
Houston county. she Is 1--WE feet eight
inches in height and weighs over hve
hundred pounds.
Pauline Lucca, the famous opera
singer OF Berlin, is leaving the scene Of
her many triumphs. She appears In
two charitable concerts in Vienna, In
conclusion OF her public career, extend
ing over nearly forty years.
I'm the death Of Mississippi man .
singular coincidence arose. He died on
the anniversary Of the death OF his
grandfather. and the same three men
who performed the last Offices Tor the
grandfather and kept lonely vigil with
the corpse did the same for the grand
son.
The memorable reign Of Lady Jane
Grey is said to have given rise to the
phrase "a nine days wonder" Lady
Jane was proclaimed Queen Of En-
gland July 10, 1858, four days after tho
deathsof Edward vi. After the lapse
of period Of nine days, July 10, she
rclinquished her title to the crown.
The president OF Delaware saw
ings bank refused TO give tramp ten
cents, and the tramp went about hint
ing that the bank was unsafe, and In
twenty-four hours there was run
which took out many thousand dollars
but fortunately not enough to occasion
any inconvenience TO the bank. Detroit
Free Press.
Alice Wilson Pryor, to whom Gull
teau, assassin Of President Garfield,
paid attention and proposed marriage,
died last week at Jasper, Tenn. II Is
stated that she was of good family and
beautiful girl gay and spirited, but
that she became a recluse, with shat
tered nerves, after the trial and execu-
ttOn OF dulteau
Prof, Robert Koch has given
Hamburg firm permission to call one
Of their vessels by his name. A bronze
medal has been struck off, also, In his
honor In Berlin. 1t contains ON one side
an excellent likeness Of the doctor with
the inscription: Professor DIR. Robert
Koch.r On the other side are the words:
cut Sementem Feceris; tia Notes.
John Mcmahon, one Of the original
partners of Flood, Fair and Mackay In
San Francisco, and a man who has run
through half dozen fortunes, Is now
making another one in an Idaho coal
field. His career has been an adventur-
GUS one. There have been occasions
when he stood in pressing need Of .
quarter, while at other times he could
draw his check for million.
The painter, Herr Gerhard, OF Dus-
seldorf, has invented, or re-invented, q
new mode Of painting, in which oil IL
not used, but cnsein and wax; while
painting water Is employed for rendering
the mixture fluid. Over the paint thus
made oil paint can still be used II de-
sired. 1t is said that the old Egyptians
and Pompeiians, as we'll as the modern
painters till Rubens, and especially Al
bert Durer, employed this method.
The father OF Gambetta has Just
died. 1t is not generally known that
the elder Gambetta received nothing
under his sons will Of the large sum OF
money the French patriot was reported
to have left. He had nothing except
the interest upon his savings as gem
eral dealer in Cahors and what he
earned as an orange-grower. He lived
very humbly with an old servant, and
he even made the boxes in which the re-
suits of his labors were dispatched, and
wheeled them himself to the station
upon hand-cart.