Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-02-20
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

GEORGE MOORE, the novelist and essayist.
Is a ed-headed man, who looks very much, u
is said, like Emile lola. Another notable
red headed man is Swinburne, the poet.
PROFESSOR RENoUF, the eminent scholar
in charge of the Assyrian and Egyptian col
lect ons in the British Museum for the lastsx
years, is about to be retired from office under
some civil service regulations. 1t is thought
TO be impossible to fill the place satisfactorily.
CARDINALS MANNING AND SIMEON were
elevated to their highest rank in the church
the same day and died on the same day. What
is MORE the last official letter penned by the
English Cardinal was by chance addressed to
his Vatican conlrere, the later Project OF the
Propaganda.
JOHN THORPE, of New York, who will
head the horticultural Department at the
Columbian Fair, has been called the " father
OF the chrysanthemum, as it was largely
through his fort that the flower was deyel-
oped to its present popularity.
SENATOR w. ]. Mcconnell, Of Idaho,
one 0; the pioneers in the Territory, says he
got rich by raising fresh vegetables Mt Boise
and buying and planting more land with the
proceeds of their sales, while hundreds OF dis
appointed gold seekers we're leaving for the
East.
MoSsIGNoR GILBERT, of Moorfield; Car
y "
Clifton, of Bristol. are regarded as the men
having the best chance of appointment as
Cardinal Manning's successor in England.
They are all home rulers, and considered
safe" on labor questions.
STURGEON, like Grant, loved good cigar
and he smoked almost as many of them as the
general did. The greatpreacaer was man of
curious physique. He was shor; and fat, or of
"portly habit as the doctors say euphemistl-
cally. In attire he looked more like country
squire than famous metropolitan minister.
PRINCE VICTOR EMANUEL, heir to the
Italian crown, is one of the handsomest and
most accomplished mea of his station in life.
Although near 80 years of age and widely
Travelled, he is yet unmarried. lie is liberal
in his political views, versed in several Ian
guages, amiable and intellectual, and gen
orally and justly beloved.
KING MESELEK, of Abyssinia, is cult
waiting the friendship of the President of
France. He has just sent messenger to Nj.
Carnot, Offering HIM as present two splendid
Nubian lions, which are now at his court.
The same messenger took a letter from tue
King comforting upon President Carnot the
highest decoration of tne Empire.
Mr.. W. L. HOWARD, the newly appointed
Consul for Cardiff, Wales, is alawyer by pro-
iesson and Vermouter. He has served in
botn branches of the Legislature of that state
and was in the Consular service during the
administration of President Arthur. Since
1889 he has allied the chair OF history and
political seiepce in Middlebury Col eye, of
which institution he is an alumnus OF the
class of II.
THE Baroness Won Zuyllan, of Paris, has
the finest stables in the world Tor her magnif-
cent horses. Even those OF the great Gar
himself DO not equal them in magnifcence.
On Sunday afternoons she takes her tea in
the STABLES, where, down the center of the
great building. a thick pile-carpet is placed,
leading up to the tea-roJm. The horses come
up to the table for sugar from their mistress,
ike pet dogs. The buildings cover over three
acres of ground.
PAsTEUR has an eye of wonderful power. A
visitor to his "menagerie" in Paris, where he
has gathered various kinds of animals for ex-
perimeDt4l uses, saw the chemist quell with a
gIance a fierce Spanish mastiff, which for MS
teroeity had been muZz ed and chained. Pas.
teur had the brute brought before him, and
looking the animal straight In the eye fear.
Iessly took of his muzz e and removed his
chain. The dog covered at the glance, tbeD
iawned upon Pasteur, licked his hand, and
finally lay submissiyely before him.