The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-12-10
PERSONAL ANp lMPsRsoNAL.

Rev. Robert Barbour. Scotch
clergyman who died lately at Aix-les-5
Bains left an estate valued ut over
"A Georgia farmer is living with his
sixth wife Each Of his i've other
wives died on the Friday preceding the
second Sunday Of the month.
Miss Jennie Chamberlain, now Mrs
Nsylcr- Esyfand. lives IN - splendid
palace ut Albert g ate, London. whose
marble staircase and; many priceless
works Of art are sighta
The distinction of being the most
beautiful woman in Paris is credited to
the Countess Amery de 10 Rochefau-
cauld, Partisan belle. She is q blonde,
with blue eyes and regular features, and
is said to be in face and figure alivine
reproduction Of Marie Antoinette.
Mrs. senator Wolcott Is achieving
the reputation Of being the best dressed
Of the senator's wives in Washington.
Her dresses are selected in F arts by her
sister, who lives abroad, and last season
they were the despair and envy Of other
less favored society women IT the cap
ital.
Miss Ada Dyas has a pleasant coun-
try place near Stamford, Conn.,, where
she spends at least part of each sum-
mer. It was declared by borh Richard
Grant White and Prof. Whelpley that
by no one on the stage is English
spoken with the purity and beauty with
which Miss Dyas enunciates It
Curtain lectures are the nightly ex
perience of a man in Winsted, Conn.
He belongs to twenty-four secret So
cieties. and his lodge meetings keep
him out late nearly every night. just
before facing his spouse, he prepares
himself for the expected lecture by
deadening his sense OF hearing with
ear-plugs.
"A woman created some excitement
in the streets of vincennes recently by
pcrsisting in crawling about the streets
on all-fours, barking like q dog and en-
deavoring to bite every one who came
in her way. "She became very violent
when the police tried to arrest her, and
the united efforts of four men were
necessary to convey her to the police
station. The poor creatures mind had
been unhinged suddenly by the death
of favorite pet dog"
--Ex-Queen Isabel, of Spain, heard
the other day that a Spaniard who had
once tried to take her life was in Paris,
dying of hunger. ''Send him five hum
dred francs, said Isabel to her secre-
tary. But your majesty knows that
this man is an assassin, that it Is he
who" '.What difference does that
| maker" said Isabel. You are absurd
with your hatred and your ideas of
vengeance. The unhappy man did not
wish to kill me. but the party l repre-
sented. Be good, now, and do what
ask"
1T is not an unheard of thing for a
| man to delegate to his wife the care of
his wardrobe and the task of keeping
the run Of lis social engagements. but
who ever heard of man who had to
be sent to his meals? In Brunswick,
Me-, there is such q man. His wife
was away and he was to take his meals
at restaurant The first day of her
absence he paid no attention to the
supper hour, but kept right on working
| until it was time to close his place of
business. when he went home and re-
tired, without getting any slipper The
next morning he left the house early.
and going to the shop began his work.
never thinking of his breakfast until
nearly eleven t,'clock