Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-09-12
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE
AsroR's daily income is SIS. 900.


THE Prince OF Wales has thirteen wigs.
pTENNYsoN is just twenty-three days older
than DIR. Holmes.
MILE RHEA, the actress, is home again"
IN America, being passenger on La Nor
mantle.
Hon. HENRY BALLARD is mentioned among
the candidates for United States Senator iroe:
Vermont.
Hon. HALLAM TENNYsoN, only surviving
son and heir OF the poet laureate, has entered
upon his til year
SENATOR HARRIS, of Tennessee, is said to
be the oldest living Congressman. lie wa,
first elected in 1919 at the age OF 81.
EX-SENATOR JAMES HARLAN, of Iowa, the
tathe. -ln-lawo of Minister Lincoln, is III at Mt
Pleasant, Ia, though not seriously so.
GENERAL f. BURD CRUDE, American
minister to Madrid, saiied for home last
Saturday on La Touraine, on leave OF abSens e.
GLEEsoS WHITE has res gned the editor
ship OF the Art Amateur. lie will return to
London IN SEPTEMBER to resume his literary
work there.
Mrs. LEVI P. MORTON and Miss Morton,
wife and daughter OF the Vice President
arrived Saturday from Hayre on the steamer
La Aormandie
JAY GOULD says he has not read news
paper in three months. The sudden abandon
ing OF newspaper reading is a sign OF approach
ing death or soietning OF the brain.
HARRIET lIosMER has in her studio at
Rome, "a plaster cast of the clasped hands Of
Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
This cast was made by Miss HoSmer in Rome
III 1888.
JULIUS Nj. PRICE, correspondent of the
London illustrated News has just arrived in
San Francisco after making trip across
lttstftT Al
European.
SECRETARY OF WAR PROCTOR, before
taking final leave of the department, will
visit some OF tLe Western posts to see how the
Indian soldl rs he has enlisted are getting on.
lie starts IN about week.
LORD RANDoLPH CHURCHILL is not suffer.
ing any Of the priyationS OF Stanley IN his
ayes through Africa, lie carries with him
two French cooks cows aud goats for fresh
milk, and supply Of champaign.
NICE-PREsIDEST MORTON is loved in
Washington for his calm temper and lack OF
affection. Someone who saw him when he
brst heard Of Ibe accident to the Shoreham
says That his first question was is any body
hurt?p
JULIA MARLOWE, the actress. is sad to
have wonderful memory. As II test not long
ago, she committed TO memory and recittd the
cnure letter of Baron Faya TO Secretary
h''i'V "'tei y hh' oeeh ftad but Twice IN htr
presence.
THE Duchess of Marlborough has been ex-
pending her American dollars in making her
husbands castle, Blcnhem, habitable She
has put IN bath rooms and electric liguis and
sent to America for shipioad OF coal for the
furnaces.
JOHN PENN, who has just been elected 10
the British Parliament, is d scendant OF
William Pea. 1t is stated that the British
Government still pays pension to the heir OF
Penn for his services in the settlement OF
Pennsylvania.
LILLE WEST, who will be pleasantly
remembered as the original ia Boston
'tiamette" in The MascOl" at Wentworth's
Gaiety Theatre, has become dramatic editor OF
the Chicago Evening News. She writes over
the signature of Amy Leslie She is the vile
Of Harry Brown, the comedian, the original
'tl,OrenzOn in Bpstnu