Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-11-28
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE


WILLIAM MORRIS. the English wall paper
maker, poet, and artist, wears an old SLOUGH
bat rusty sack coat, baggy trousers. blue
flannel shirt and no necktie.
WHEN Queen Victoria is rugged out for a
State occasion like drawing room" it is no
unusual thing TO see her display 100000
worth of jewe.ry spread upon her comfortable
robes of office.
HIRAM CHASE, full blooded Indian of The
omaha tribe, has been admitted To practice in
tne Federal Court OF Omaha. Mr.. Chase is
he first Indian ever admitted TO the practice
of law in Nebraska.
DANIEL c. FRENCH, the New York sculp-
tor, has just arrived in Paris 10 Gil an order
for the Chicago Exhibition. 1t will be
colossal statue of the republic, a female figure,
sixty 10 eighty feet high.
REV. CHARLES FoLLES LEE recently of
Charles,own, Mass, lately withdrew I. ON the
Univ rsalist Church aud has chosen the
Episcopal Church as bis future field of ac-
tiyity, which action is attracting some atten,
lion in the Bay State.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER was born in
P!aintield, n. j. and few days ago the town
by official vote resolved to call the hill on
which he was born Warner Hill, in honor
OF Mr.. Warner and in recognition of his gem
crosby to his native town.
A FRENCH professor has recently anal zed
the waters of the ID. ad Sea and found that
they will kill every microbe with the excep-
ton OF gangrene and tetanus bacillus. With
this discovery he hopes to render service TO
the French hospitals.
MRS. CHARLOTTE EMERSON BROWN, of
Orange, President Of the Federation OF
Woman's Clubs, is daughter OF Professor
Ralph Emerson, Tor many years connected
with the Andoyer Theological Seminary. She
is handsome woman OF line physique and an
accomplished linguist, speaking half dozen
languages tioenty.
MRS. AUGUSTA EVANS WILSON, the South
ern novels lives in pretty home OH Spring
Hill, the shady and picturesque suburb OF
Mobile. As Mrs. Wilson grows older her re-
markable erudilion, which eharacterizes all
her novels, increases, until she has come TO
be regarded by her neighbors as an unques-
toned authority on everything, from the con-
coction OF Il culinary dainty to the method of
building an Etrurian aqueiuct.
GOVERNOR mckinney, of Virginia, has
bright 3-yesr-old daughter. Her name is
Frances. She was unruly at dinner. Her
father warned her that if She did not become
more circumspect he would send her away.
The oflense was repeated and she was ordered
TO leave the table. She toddled off ami as she
reached the door she turned around looked
firmly at the Governor and the assembled
company and waving her hand defantly
SAID: "Hurrah for Mahonel"
Ex-PREsIDENr HAYES when in Atlanta
told reporter that be hal never been fam
cier of chickens and had never raised one in
his life. His sons had some game bantams at
their country home. but General Hgyes him
II has never taken any interest in them.
THE story OF the chickens was started b my
ir ends as a joke" said the ex-Prt sident
They began it, for the fun in il, and others,
who were not friendly to me, wishing per-
haps to belittle me in the eyes of the pubic,
pushed the joke for all it was worth"