Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-03-13
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GENERAL ". 7. SHERMAN left no will.
/ GENERAL BEAUREGARD is seventy-two
years OF age.
SENATOR GoRNAv, Of Maryland, is fifty
enc years old
TIE King of Spain is a very strong boy,
ugly. hut bright and good tempered.
TIE death of Sir Tharia Topaz, Of Bonn
bay and Zanzibar reduces the number Of
Indian knights TO four.
BELL, the telephone man. has given s25,-
600 to a New YORK association for tho teach
ing of speech 70 the dumb.
JUDGE c. c. FIrcH, Of Garnetsville, KY,
died recently at the age ninety-nine He was
tue oldest Mason in the South.
JOHN JACOB AsToR, who recently married
Miss Willing. Of Philadelphia, viii have,
when his father dies, an income OF s., ,O0O0 900
a year.
SAMUEL P. JONES, the Georgia evangelist
declares in letter TO a Texas friend that his
health has failed, and be IS on the verge OF
physical collapse.
SIR EDWIN ARNoLD's feyorite diversion
while in japan wasa weekly kite fyingparty
to which each guest brought bis own kite.
EMPRESS EUGENE, Of France, has been
compelled 10 sell the Chateau dArenenberg
in Switzerland in consequence Of unlucky
stock speculations.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIs(' Uncle Remus1,
the Southern writer, now sixty years or age,
is great pedestrian, and is said 10 have
walked tbirty-six miles in one day recently.
TIE new Senator from Kansas used years
ago 70 spell bis name Pfeiffer. When be be-
came an editor he dropped the ''f' ana on his
election to the Senate he cut out the first
"f"
PHIL ARMOUR the Chicago pork man, is
of medium height aud heavy, but not fat.
His fsce is full and round and adorned by
pair of Burnsides. He isquick in speech and
easily approachable.
PROFESSOR THEODoRE v. DWIGHT, who
has recently retired from the head OF the
Columbia law school, had been with the col
lege since 1858. and is probably the most
noted teacher Of law in this country.
THE Mikado Of Japan is TO visit Wies-
baden, Germany. next summer partly for
the waters and partly for the spectacle ''of
innocent merriment" Six villas have been
engaged for the Emperor and his suite.
JOHN D. ARcHBoLD, Yice-President Of the
Standard Oil Company and one OF the coun-
Gil Of FIVE who directs the affairs OF that
corporation, is worth from $5,OOO,OOO to
81, 100000. He began his business career as
a common day labOrer.
TIE oldest living graduate Of West Point
is William c. Young, Of Chicago, III. He
was torn in 1879 and graduated from the
Academy in 1922. He was commissioned
Lieutenant Of Artillery and remained in
active service until 1926, when he resigned.
THE late Diamond Joe' Reynolds, Of
Hot Springs Ark, was very plain man in
his dress. and with all his wealth he never
owned residence. He lived with his wife
in plainly furnishe and unpretentious apart
ments. lie left an estate worth about So
O0.0CO
MRS. LoUEsBURY. widow OF the default
ing cashier OF the New York City postofhce.
voluntarily turned over the entire estate OF
her deceased husband for the benefit OF his
bondsmen end creditors. She was an
actress before marriage. and, having re-
sumed the stage, IS starring IN the West
THE most popular OF Germanys host OF
professors of philosophy is Professor Paulson,
of Berlin He is man Of forty-iive, tall.
rather stout and vigorous. His hair is iron
gray. his face smooth shayen, and he has the
WebstesaD tyre Of countenance. He is
noted for his modesty and his lectures are
crowded.