Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-04-09
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

LIEUTENANT ToTrEN's detail as military
instructor at Yale will terminate in June.
THE little daughter Of w. X. Vanderbilt Is
credited with the ability to speak Chinese,
besides several other languages.
CHARITAs TRICoupls, whom the Greek
king recently invited to form new Ministry,
Is called THE Aristides Of modern Greece, "
Miss MooDY. daughter of the well-knowu
evangelist, Is travelling In the Orient. She
writes WILDLY Of the scenes aud scenery Of
Egypt.
GENERAL LoNGsrREEr IL at work on a
book Of war tales in which he figures largely
himself TO be called "a Soldier Under Two
Flags"
lMBERT DE Sr. AMAND. who has two
fold celebrity In Paris as literary man and
music critic, is q bachelor Of 40 aud very
slever and brilliant talker.
THE Prince and Princess Of Wales are
known as tho Earl and Countess Of Chester
when they travel on the continent II was as
the Earl Of Chester that the Prince made his
celebrated American tour.
Mrs, SARAH 7. BoLToS. who was famous
forty years ago as the pioneer poet OF Indi.
ana, still lives at indianapolis in her nth
year. Her most famous production perhaps
1850.
OSCAR WILDE has n wonderfully good
memory when other people Jokes are con.
eerned. One day when Whistler made one OF
his exeruciating funny remarks Os ar muir
INJURED; "Ahl how good wish had said
That" And Whistler replied: "Nou will,
Oscarl You willl'
KING MHBNoRA is having royal jamboreo
In San Francisco, lie gorgcs himself with
peanuts lemonade and cake, discards sus.
penders and sleeps with his boots on. In the
royal palace at Butaritai he is accustomed
TO hold levees clad in simple garments
shirt with wide red stripes
N. BIBoT, the French statesman, ascribea
lnrge share Of his success 10 the sagaeious
encouragement he has received from bis wife.
who was formerly Miss Bureh, daughter Of a
Chicago banker. The Chicago girl has long
been proverbial for her understanding
CARMEN SYLVIA, the Queen Of Roumanla.
has almost recovered her health and will soon
return 10 Bucharest She Inns spent several
mouths IN Pellanza. Her return 20 Roumnnia
viii put an end, probably 10 the rutnors of
Misunderstanding with King Charles.
SENATOR MORRILL, lives in modest
fashion in Washington, though comfortably
eircumstanoed. lie is temperate and regular
ia his habits aud q model Of method and
industry. A Washington correspondent says
that with advancing age be Is coming 10
resemble Charles snmner greatly In appear
ance aud is rather proud Of Il.
EMPEROR WILLIAM must have n rars
sense Of humor According to the London
World If guest makes the slightest slip at a
court ball the Emperor not only laughs loudly.
but audibly crilicises the unlucky person 10
the royal stat, who join in the merriment MS
in duty bound
LORD ABERDEEN related capital story OF
celebrated physician who was brought down
to the proper level by the unconscious eyni-
cisin Of his coachman's little son. do you
know who amp asked the doctor of the lad
at the close Of little talk held in the stable.
"Oh yes, answered the boy promptly; lyon
are the man who sits inside iHther = carriage"
ALEXANDRA DUMAS, whose Gne collection
OF paintings Is soon 10 be sold, once said that
IF Providence had not made OF me an author.
] should have liked to have become a
merchant Of bric-a-brac. ! eau imagine no
more delightful way Of making ones living
than 10 spend ones days in collecting art
treasures, even u only for the purpose Of sell.
ing them AGAIN.
LoLA's wife has always been an unknown
quantity 10 the world at large. II il inter.
esting therefore TO find in the recently pub
lishcd sixth volume Of ths journal dss Con
court" a note by Edmund de Goncourt 20 tho
effect that "Iola's wife. who has been alling
this year, has derived from her illness rare
beauty, composed Of the soft sweetness Of two
deep black eyes setting OFF tho paleness Of a
face which seems Illuminated. J."