The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-06-30
Personal Ifetnst

the city, but the buildings are OF little
value.
Celia Thaxter, the poetess, is tall
handsome woman, whose snow white
hair ripples above a dark face and bri-
liant but dark eyes. She spends every
summer at the Isle of Shoals.
Nine. Boulanger, who has returned to
Versailles after long visit to her eldest
daughter, has not reoccupied the little
white villa which was her former home,
but has taken up her abode at IA hotel.
William Gericke, who since his return
to Vienna from Boston, has again been
the conductor of the concerts OF the So
ciety of the Friends of Music, was mar
ried last Saturday to Miss Paula Flamm.
Col Henry Russell, brother of the Gov
ernor of Massachusetts, when visiting /
the latter in his Office always addresses
him by his title, and the Governor obs
serves the same formality in reply
Lord Brougham used to say wine f"'
women, whiskey for men, and brandy
for horses At the Convention they
amended the rule SO as to make it Wine
for delegates. wlIiskey for alternates,a and !
beer for shouters
As was predicted at the time of his az
cession to his new title and estates. the
Duke of Devonshire has been much less
influential in British public life as a
member of the House of Lords than he
was as Lord Harrington in the House
of Commons.
Lord Dufferin now British ambassador
at Paris has been recognized as former
art student in the famous Atelier uliat
where he studied under the name of
Temple, and where on account of Lis
aristocratic manners. his irreverent fer
low-students called him 1.-THE ambassa-
dor.'
Sias B. Cobb, who has recently given
the Chicago University $l50,000 for its
building fund, is eighty years old. He
was Vermonter by birth, but upon at
tanning the age of twenty one, he went
to Chicago, landing there without cent
in his pocket.
1t is reported that Colonel Yanoff, the
hero of the Pamir incident, has been pre-
scented by the Gar with valuable ring
set with the royal monogram, a reward
much priced by Russian officers. This
has been done although Russia admitted
that his action in expelling British Off
GERS was illegal.
Among the many visitors who come to
Fredrichsruhe to pay their respects to
Prince Bismarck was a club of bicyclists
numbering hundred, who recently rode
over from a neighboring city. The ex-
chancellor delivered a short speech on
athletic sports and the history of the BIZ
cycle to the company.
The most important library find" OF
recent years is undoubtedly the purchase
by Mr. Davey, of London, of lot of
waste paper which turns out to be three
thick volumes of notes of Victor Hugo's
table>talk during five years of his exile
at Guernsey, transcribed by his sor,
Francois Victor Hugo
ed that the world would come to an end
last fall, suspended their occupations
and passed the entire winter in their
house waiting for the dreaded event
Late in the spring the head of the faIni>
ly went out and planted a patch of po
tatoes, and his wife reluctantly put some
eggs under a setting hen
1t is stated, in speaking of Maxim's ex
periments in aerial investigation, that he
has got so far with his motors that he
has obtained steam equal to 100horse
power, with one square foot of CRATE, or
rather of the equivalent of CRATE, for
he burned liquid fuel. The heat gem
Grated is SO intense that no boiler plate
has thus far been made that can stand it
Hiram Camp, of New Haven, who gave
the $25. 900 with which Dwight Moody
erected his famous school up at North
field, has in the last year added WIS. 900
to the endowment. There have of course,
been other contributions. 1t is twelve
years or so since the school opened
There are now 1856 boys in attendance
there.
DIR. Lewis Slocum. New York dentist,
who died recently, aged fifty two. He
practiced medicine until the end of the
war, when he turned his attention to
dental surgery. In connection with his
career we find it noted that he kept a
list of his patients. which shows that he
had extracted teeth from III 000patients
The average number of teeth extracted
from each patient was three and frac-
ton. Dr. SlOcum was very proud of this
record, and asserted that he had extract
ed more teeth than any other man in
the country.
An Italian newspaper man in Paris,
recently had an interview with Succi at
the Sainte Anne Asylum for the Insane,
where the faster is confined Succi ac-
knowledged that he had been mad, but
said that he had considered himself
cured. He attributes bis insanityto two
causes. One is that be was hypnotized
by a friend in an experimental but dis
astrous way, and the other that, after
living ON tea and a scant diet in London,
drink everything thist tempted his pal
ate. This, with the hot weather, upset
him physically and disturbed the normal
condition of his brain.
1t seems to be quite clear that all gen.
eral approximation and pension schemes
in Great Britain will meet with earnest
opposition from the great friendly socie-
ties, which are composed largely of the
most frugal, industrious and prudent of
the laboring classes. AT two great meet
ings of Odd Fellows and at meeting of
the Foresters, the principal officers ex-
pressed themselves vigorously against
the whole pension principle. The Grand
Master of the Odd Fellows said that
whatever form a national pension
oohara rnipIt taI1 If .Oaapt on anon