Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-05-30
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE


W. L. GARDNER has sued Arkansas City for
giving him the smallpox.
Mrs. LEVI p MORTON Mrs Don Cameron
and Miss Hattie Blaine are in Paris.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER has returned
from his tour of the East and is now in Rome
He has completed a novel depicting American
society.
Dr.. GATLING is working on a new gun,
which will knock the spots out of his famous
pepper-box gun. His object is to make war so
dangerous that nations will have hard work TO
decide between it and base ball.
MRS. KATE PIER, of Milwaukee, is a
lawyer and court commissioner; her husband
Is lawyer, and one Of her daughters has been
already admitted TO the bar, and two more are
studying with the same end in view.
W. W, STOREY has finished the monument
and medallion which arc to be placed on
Theodore Parker's grave at Florence. The
ceremony Will take place August oath. +. b.
Sanford, Of Concord, Mass, and Moncure d.
Conway promise to contribute to the literary
ceremonial.
Dom Pedro would doubles like to end his
days rs the restored Emperor Of Brazil, but,
like the rugged old patriot that he is, he de.
clares that the Experiment of Brazilian self.
government will prove success. "They will
hold their place among nations, is his terse
CpulHtnl upon Ills cOuHtfyMen.
ALMA TADEMA's studio is reached by a
flight Of golden stairs, the steps being entirely
covered with plates of polished brass Ii is a
great contrast to go from this room, so entirely
Greek in its character, to the studio of Mrs.
Alma Tadema, which is a Dutch interior, with
quantity carved oak walls and little diamond
paned windows brought from Holland.
AMELIE RIyEs- CHANDLER has returned
from the South of Europe TO Paris in better
health. She says the title of her new novel as
given by the papers is inaccurate. Her hus-
band is delighted with the reception that
artists and the press have given to his art
scholarship project.
GEoRG NJ. PULLMAN has given to the St.
Luke's Hospital, Chicago, what is probably
the most complete hospital ward i'll the world
He gave orders that it should be the best and
the most beautiful place in the world for sick
and crippled children. The ward consists of
worooms, and has accommodations for twenty
two little ones.
BEACoNsFIELD and Byron both died on the
same day of the year. April 18th, and while
primroses were worn or displayed extensively
upon that anniversary this year in England,
large wreath was placed by some one at the
foot of the statue OF "Childe Harold's IS" author,
in Hamilton Gardens, London, and passers-by
noticed the figure Of a young lady sitting pen
sively beside it.
THE late General Albert Pike, of Washing
ton, was perhaps better versed in the mysteries
of ancient Freemasonry than any other person
Ill the world. His TRANSACTIONS from the yedas
filled seventeen volumes of a thousand pages
each, all carefully written in beautiful hand.
General Pike used none but quill pens in this
writing and carefully preserved each one, the
number probably reaching 10000.
EUGENE KELLY, the banker, is one of the
most active men of his age in New York. He
is worth ten millions or more, and is, perhaps,
the wealthiest man of his nationality engaged
exclusively in banking inthe world. He began
his career in that State as an itinerant peddler,
but in 1919 the gold fever attracted him to
California. He became millionaire dry
goods merchant in San Francisco and returned
to New York.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany dined at
the barracks in Pottsdam the other evening.
Before seating himself at the table, he stood,
IN naval uniform, with his back to the door
eonyersing. An officer Of the guard, who had
seen him shortly before in generals uniform,
attended by an adjutant in dress similar to
that now worn by the Emperor, approached
him suddenly from behind and capped him
on the shoulder familiarity, with a remark
which showed he mistook the person addressed
for the Emperors adjutant. William laughed
heartily over the mistake and shook hands
with the embarrassed officer.