The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-30
PERSONAL AND tMPERsoNAL.

IA ninety-three-year-old man In
Mystic, Conn, has been climbing into
his apple trees and gathering the fruit
as though he were only twenty.
In Mississippi recently three inter-
esting events happened on one evening
in family; An old lady and her hus-
band celebrated their golden wedding,
daughter and son.in-law their silver
wedding and u granddaughter her
wedding.
"A recent visitor to the tombs of
Presidents Monroe and Tyler, in Holly
wood cemetery, Richmond, Va, says
that the grave Of Tyler is unmarked by
stone or monument and that he could
find no inscription of any kind on the
small chapel-lilSe structure over the re-
mains of Monroe
Tho car of Russia says that rather
than not see his pet scheme, tho Trans
Siberian railroad completed in three
years from lack of funds he would ad-
vance the needed money-S17, 500, 600
out of his private purse. lie can do it;
he has, it is said, $1,000, 600 always in
bank in ready money.
On the grave of the late Mr.. w. II.
Gladstone, son of the premier, has
NANNeSSs PUN WHllc fnuIDlC
cross with three bases, bearing the in
scription: Thou wilt keep him in per-
feet peace, whose mind is STAYED on
Thee. William Henry Gladstone; born
June 5, 1910; passed away July G, 1891"
The duke OF Cumberland, eldest
son of the last king of Hanover, is the
posscssor of no less than nine tons of
gold and silver plate, while the plate of
the house of Orange at The Hague, in
Guiding two thousand solid silver din
ncr plates, has an estimated value of
S6,5OO,0o0. The plate used by Queen
Victoria during the visit of the emperor
of Germany is said to be worth S1O-
900, 900.
The GOODNESS OF the Austrian en-
peror the other day, when he heard of
the dynamite outrage, in saying: 'If
bridge be blown up we shall have to
get out and walk" reminds the Pail
Mall Gazette of Sir Thomas More's
sang froid when his head was on the
block AS the fatal stroke was about
to fall he signed for a moments delay
while he moved aside his beard "Pity
that should be cut" he murmured,
that has not committed treason"
du Siuid IuSc HIS JuSC nnlSnGu
in New York city Il characteristic por-
trait of Christobel Rojas. the young
South American artist whose romantic
career has touched so many hearts
His picture of the "Purgatorio' re-
ceived the gold medal from the Paris
Salon. He had gone home to
Venezuela to die, and on the heights of
the mountain near Caracas he met the
son of the distinguished German
patriot Arnold Ruge. who with his
artistic wife often went slletching amid
the beautiful scenery.
-"There's many a Slip" etc. An
Albina (Oregon) man. we'll along in
years, visited q Portland Justice the
other day with young girl of about
sixteen, and wanted the justice to
draw up deed for two lots, for which
he was to receive $500; the justice
was to deliver the deed. receive the
cash and divide it between the old gen
tleman and the young girl, after she
had become the formers wue. The
deed was prepared, ready for the old
mans signature, when the justice
asked for his fee That broke the bar
gain all up. The old man wallled out
leaving the bridc-elect, who in turn
went her different way homeward-