The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-07-28
PERSONAL AND ,MpERsoNAL.

AN asylum for mothers-in-law has
just been founded by a wealthy AUS
TRAN woman. 1t Is 10 be big enough to
accommodate Ave hundred inmates. and
half the apartments in the asylum have
already been bespolSen by applicants
who represent the higher classes Of
Austrian society.
"A German shoemaker in small
place on Long Island shot himself in
the mouth and right ear with a 45-cali-
Der revolver. Physicians could not
trace the bullets. For two days he lay
in a stupor. He then awolse and called
for sausage and beer and partoolS
heartily. In a week he was apparently
as we'll as ever.
"A man in Liberty, Me-, who is Ave
feet and seven inches in height. has
beard six feet and three inches in
length that is tied up in a kind Of cue.
Nobody notices its length except when.
to startle strangers, he shakes out the
reefs and let's his beard trail upon the
ground The beard began to grow
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-Du Maurice, who contributed so
long and So attractively to the pictorial
features in Punch, was once asked how
he managed to keep mp SO well with the
changes in women's fashions His an
swer was: Young man, when III
have wife and three daughters like
those girls of mine. you win know more
about fashion than you want to know
Since he has left the senate Mr.. Ed
munds has much more youthful step
and appearance than he had the last
year or two he was q member. the re-
suit of frequent outdoor exercise. lie
says he has become quite boy again,
and explains that those old fellows In
the senate were so grave and serious
that man got to feeling very old by
iassociating with them. - s-----
Miss Howe, the woman who won
the secopd prize in the competition of
designs for the womans building in the
worlds fair, was classmate Of Miss
Hayden, the winner of the first prize,
in the Boston School of Technology,
but whereas Miss Hayden took the full
general course, which Includes much
besides architecture, Miss Howe studied
that branch only. She is now practis-
ing architecture successfully in Boston.
Baron Hirsch who has made per-
mancnt settlement for himself in Lon
don by purchasing tAe-lease- OF Bath
House, is now looking out for an estate
in England and is likely to buy Bcdge-
bury from Mr.. Philip Beresford- Hope.
The extent Of this property. is nearly
six Thousand acres, in ring fence, of
which more than half is woodland and
park. Bedgebury lies in charming
part of Kent, between Tunbridge Wells
and CranbroolS
A Bangor woman's pet dog died re-
Gently, and the woman, after copious
tears, gave the cur an elaborate funer-
al. a casket was made and lined with
silk. On shrouded table in dark
ened room, and banked with dollhouse
flowers, the carcass, with crossed paws,
was laid in state. Then the family and
all the sympathetic and curious women
in the neighborhood filed in for a last
look at Towser. The casket was. borne
to the garden, and there under the lilacs
81 worth of black walnut silk and
flowers, and 80 cents worth Original
value) of dog were laid away. S.
Henry Ward Beecher's greatest
anxiety, during his later years, was
that his mind should fail as did his
fathers during the last few years OF
his life. After one of DIR. Lyman
Beecher's visits to his son, during which
his weakened intellectual state was
more than usually evident, Mr.. Bcecher
said to his wife: II have been thinking
of father, and praying that IL God
should see best to bring Inc SO low he
would give me strength to bear II. ]
can think of no other cross he may lay
upon me that could not say from my
heart, Thy will be done But this
this could not.-eould notr'