The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-08-18
About Well-Known Men.

comprising 1923 characters.
Carl Schurz has built for himself
pretty summer cottage at Lake George
Prof. Baruji, the only parsee in this
country, has entered the Harvard Medi,
cal School.
The Emperor of Japan has bestowed
upon Sir Edwin Arnold the order of the
Rising Sun. &aat
Massachusetts has four living ex-Gov-
ernors who were born in 1S19-Boutwell,
Clafln, Rice and Butler.
Mr.. Nichols, the husband of Charlotte
Bronte, is reported to be still living in
remote part of Ireland. Ii
Associate Justice Shiras, just confirm
ed, is a cousin of James G. Blaine, but
does not owe his appointment to family
influence.
Popes villa, Twickenham, which has
been occupied for nearly twenty-five
years by Mr.. Labouchere, editor. of
TRUTH is for sale.
Charles MISSIONER, son of the painter,
has purchased the house of his father in
! Paris, and it will be transformed into a
MISSIONER museum.
F. Marian Crawford says he lives
abroad because he was brought up in
Europe, and foreign subjects are much
more familiar to him than American
citizens.
The lawyers are sometimes consider
ate in their charges. They take only
$65s,O00 of the 1923 1888 paid by the City
of New Orleans to the estate of Myra
Clark Gaines.
Henry Savage Lander grandson of the
poeD is writing sup his experiences
among the Amos of Yesso and the Ku-
rifles, the strange hairy people through
whose country he wandered on horse
back
| Charles X. Adams, eX President of
Cornell, who has accepted the call to the
! presidency of the Wisconsin University,
is a native of Vermont and descended
from the original Adams stock of New
| England.
| Queen Victoria has intimated her in
tention of giving commission to her
favorite painter, Angel, of Vienna, for
portrait of King Charles. of Roumania.
Angel is also under orders to paint
portrait of Lord Salisbury for the Queen.
DIR. Newman Hall, the British divine,
preached his last sermon from the text
''God so loved the world This, he told
his congregation, was the first text he
ever learned, the text he first preached
from and should now be the last text of
their pastor.
The late John l.. Henderson, the old
est employee of the Philadelphia Ledger,
served the paper as printer and proof
reader forty-one years. Ten years ago
Mr. Childs retired him on pension for
long and faithful service. His two sons
are employed in the Ledger composing
room, and one of them has been thus
engaged more than twenty five years.
General Borius recently appointed to
the important functions of chief of the
military household of President Carnot
and general secretary of the Presidency
of the French Republic, was born at
Rochefort and is now 81 years old. Like
M. Carnot himself, General Borius was
pupil of the famous polytechnic School
at Paris, and began his career as an
officer in the Engineering Corps.
Mr. Cleveland has accepted long
standing invitation to visit Frank Jones,
the Portsmouth, N. H., brewer, at Sor-
rento, on the Maine coast. The Pres
ident joined the Granite State politi-
clan in Boston on August 4th, and fin>
ished the journey in Mr.. Jones' private
car and yacht. 1t is intimated that the
visit was ''for pleasure" Mr.. Jones has
a costly place of residence at Sorrento,
having spent $4,000 on a granite wall
about his estate
Lord Wolseley. in the course of re-
cent letter, says: Il am afraid | can not
lay claim to have II drop of Irish blood
in my body; and my grandfather was
the first of my belongings who was born
in Ireland We are Staffordshire fans
lily, and come from Wolseley, where we
have been for at least three or four cen
turtles before the conquest of England.
l am very fond of Ireland and of the
Irish people, among whom was brought
up. have been very little there, how
ever. since l was boy.
The latest report about Verdi and his
Falstaff is that the composer has handed
the complete score to Messrs. Ricordi,
his publishers, and will soon go to the
baths of Monte Catini, near Florence,
where in the early autumn he will en-
terrain Manre and other artists who
have been selected for the leading parts.
The scenery and the mechanical appli-
ances by which Fastaff will appear to
be shot out OF the buck basket into the
water are in preparation at La Scala,
where the opera will be produced next
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