The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-04-30
PERSONAL ANp lMpERsoNAL.

Mrs. e. d. gillespie. 81 philadcl-
phia, grcat-granddaughter Of Ben
Franklin. recently celebrated her
sevcntieth birthday.
Mrs. william Morris, wife Of tho
London artist, poet and socialist Is said
to be the most beautiful woman In the
world. She goes out but little and IL
rarely seen By the multitude who visit
her husband
1T Is not so long ago that ducls
between women were common IL
France, the home Of the duelisk Tho
most celebrated duel Of modern times
was that of the Mnrquise de Nesle and
the Countess de Polignac. The cause
Of the quarrel was a violent pcnchant
Of both women for the same admirer.
Speaking OF namesakes, Chauncey
NJ Depew says he gets an average Of
two photographs day Of babies said
to have been named after him, nnd he
adds: .sMy son is named sfter me, also,
and tell him that by the time no y
grown up. II this average continues,
the Chauncey Depews win MI al tho
Offices and jaiis in the country Z
"A strolling surveyor happened
along to a certain farm house In Illinois
and offered to run the farm lines for
three dollars. He found the lines all
wrong and got seven farmers into Nights
and lawsuits before the county surveyor
came along and discovered that the
stroller couldn't run straight line for
twenty rods to save his neck Then ne
strolled again.
Schiller, Goethe and Leasing are
about to be introduced into Constants
nople. The Crown Prince Of Meiningen,
who has already earned some repute
by his translations of German classics
into modern Greek, will undertake the
temporary management Of the Greek
theatcr in the Turkish capital for the
performance Of Schiller's Robbers,
Lessing's Emilia Galeotti" and other
Germandramas in modern Greek.
An interesting historical relic has
just changed owners in Scotland. When
James " visited Londoun Castle, 400
years ago, a handsome black oak chair
was specially constructed for him. The
/ aKing,s chair was then removed to
Sorn Castle, and afterward to Catrine,
where, by some mistake, it was put up
for public sale and bought by o. Mrs.
George Mair for trifIing sum. This
lady at her death, which occurred re-
Gently, bequeathed it to her son.
AN anecdote OF Leigh Hunt, once
related by ''Orion" Horne, lately app
peared in print for the first time.
Horne, on bitter cold day in winter,
went to see Hunt, and found him in q
large room, with wide, old-fashioned
fireplace. He had dragged his piano on
to the hearth, close to large fire, lcav-
| ing only room for himself and his
chair, and was playing with the great
est enjoyment. s'My dear fellow,
cried Horne, fare you aware that you
are running your piano forever and ever
In that heat2, II know know"
mnrmured Hunt, ssbut 1t is deliciousr'
Adam Sedgwici, the gcologist, his
recently published biography relates,
was once breaking specimens in a road
in Wales, when lady asked him the
direction OF certain place and how to
reach it. She handed him a shilling,
and, before he could explain, was off;
but the next evening she turned up as =
visitor to the house at which he was
staying. She did not recognize the
geologist, but he knew her at once.
She was greatly pleased with her visit
her first-to Wales and with the peo-
pie. They are so obliging and 50
communicative, she said. "Only yes
terday had long conversation with
an old man who was breaking stone on
the road. He told me all wanted to
know, and was 50 civil that gave him
| shilling" Sedgwick says: II could
not resist the pleasure Of saying: Yes,
ma am, you did, and here 1t Is.