Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-11-07
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE

QUEEN REGENT CHRISTINA, Of Spain, reads
and speaks English.
Henry NJ. STANLEY has lost all the popI.
arity he hand in England
THE Duchess of Fife is expected TO do a
good deal of entertaining in London during
the winter
PROFESSOR VIRCHow, the eminent German
scientist, has published 125 works. He is 20
years old.
NINE. ANNE MARIE MAzzINI. Milan, Italy.
has been announced as candidate for Parlia
ment by her party.
CAPTAIN EVAN P. HowELLs, of ''The AT
lanta Constitution, +" is being talked about as
possible Governor of Georgia.
Mrs. AUGUSTA ]. EVANS WILSON, author
of "Beulah, ''St. Elmo" and ''Vashti. +" is
about to return to literary work
THE new lord mayor of London, David
Evars is u years old, and is the youngest
chef magistrate that the city ever had.
Mrs. DIAZ, wife of the President of Mexico.
viii probably be chosen leader of the women
Of Mexico who will take part in the Colum.
bian Exposition.
THE Goulds, Astors and vanderbilts are
their own insurers. None of the insurance
companies, 1t is said can boast of having these
names on their Isis.
NICE-P PRESIDENT LEVI P. MORTON earned
his first dollar as clerk in q village dry goods
store at Shoreham, n. IL. Hence the name of
his swell Washington hotel
GEO. KEENAN,, the lecturer on Siberia. is
an expert telegrapher, and his copy" is like
copper-plate. to the delight of printers who
have to put his writings in type.
RoBERT BRowNING's admirers place A
wreath OF flowers over his grave in Westmins-
ter Abbey every day. The tomb is covered nv
single tile about Is inches square.
THE Hon. Samuel r. Thaver United State.
Minister to the Netherlands, has returned TO
ihis country on a leave OF absence and il
spending few days in New York.
Mr.. LABoUCHERE, who was member of
the Parliamentary Committee that INQUIRED
into the Queen Nictoria's savings, asserts that
her Malesty's fortune is surprisingly small.
EX-GOVERNOR WALLER, of Connecticut
can dash of letters at fifty words to the min
ute and at the same time keep UP a running
conversation with anybody he wishes to talk
TO.
PARNELL, mt school, is described by the old
lady who taught him in Derbyshire village.
as silent, solitary child repelling the ad.
vances Of a kindly sympathy with his early
sorrows.
Dr.. JOHN PLESTE the amateur telescope.
maker, is now finishing 60I.inch silyer-on.
glass mirror for Allegheny College. which.
when MOUNTED, viii give that institution the
largest rejecting telescope in this country.
REV. STEPHEN GLADSTONE preached A
sermon on Parncll in the presence of the
Grand Old Man and landed the qualities
which made the dead Statesman a great DO.
litical leader while deploring his moral fall. !"
TIE Car Of Russia has great aversion to
having his picture taken, and is said to have
been greatly enraged recently by the attemnt
of travelling photographer to take snap
shot at him. In this respect he greatly differs
from the Emperor of Germany
THE Crown Prince of Japan, who is at
present pupil in the school Of Mobiles. in
Toxic, is said to be bright and industrious
boy. He has just finished the fourth year ia
the elementary department. tits said that he
did not mics one day at school during the last
year.