Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-12-24
MASCULINE MENTION.

7. r. Carver is known as the water
melon king" of Kansas.
Colonel Henry Watterson has shaved off
his luXuriant mustache.
Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania,
sometimes addresses Sunday schools.
The Rev. Morgan Dix, of Trinity parish,
New York, has salary equal to that of
the president of the United States
The Oldest voter in Newark, y. j., is
Elijah Boulder Glenn, who is ninety seven
He is a native of Cecil county, Nd.
DR.. Luther, Berlin physician, descend
ed from Martin Luther, represented the
Luther family at the conservation services
in Wittenberg.
Ex-senator Tabor. of Colorado, an itin-
Grant paragraph states, fuses for paper
weight on his Office desk gold nugget
valued at $4,000"
Captain John F. Wheaton, for over thir-
ty years commander of the Chatham artil-
lery of Savannah, the best known military
company of the south. has resigned owing
to old age.
Mavroyeni Bey, Turkish minister at
Washington, particular social favorite at
the capital, is very fond of getting up the
alter parties. He is a Greek by birth and
unmarried.
The Duke of Portland has given 300, 600
to charity since his marriage, in fulfillment
of his promise to his wife to devote to that
purpose all the money he should win on
the race track.
Pasteur, they say, is so deeply absorbed
in his professional work that he forgot his
wedding day and had to be hunted up in
a hospital by the brides relatives on that
festai occasion.
The Duke of Veragua, the descendant Of
Columbus, who has promised to visit Amer
lea rs the guest of the nation next year,
has received the famous order Of the
Golden Fleece from the queen regent of
Spain.
General Beauregard, as his name implies,
is of French descent, but his family was
long ago deeply interested In this country.
His grandfather sent over from France
100000 to aid the colonies In their strug-
gle for independence.
The eminent New York lawyer, John E.
Parsons, has purchased near Lenox hotel
and several other houses, which he intends
W ItIoilobAutb anu lulO a
home for poor boys and girls as a memo
rial for dearly loved child.
Ex-senator Edmunds never sends word
to reporter that he is mot in," but
greets the interviewer himself and treats
him the same as he would any one else
having business with him, and II the
visitors have no business the interview is
a brief one.
The Denver Times names among the
real orators" Of the country John J. In
gals, George G. Vest, Thomas B. Reed,
w. C. p. Breckenridge, Bourke Cochran
and Edward o. Wolcott. 1t says that
Blaine, Mckinley, Sherman and Depew do
not "fill the BILL"
Gong Hoar. grand master of the
Chinese Masonic order, which recently
dedicated its only temple in this country
in Boston, is six feet tall, dresses in
American clothes, wears pair of eye.
glasses and altogether looks very unlike
an ordinary Chinaman.
Speaker Crisp is the only member Of his
family who did not devote himself to the
stage. Crisp pere tried to make an actor
OF the present speaker. When he failed he
said to friend: 1.-THE boy Charles is the
only child I've got who will never amount
to anything. He can't act well enough to
get job as scene shifter."