The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-04-28
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PERSONAL AND ,MpERsoNAl-

49,
An Atchison county fKnn. farmor
assisted woman flnaneial1y 10 getting
. divorce with the lutention of merry
Ing her himself. But she marric6 tho
farm hand and the farmer has been In
formed By q lawyer TINT ho cannot re-
cover his money.
Last year there were twenty three
surviving widows Of revolutionary sol
dicrs and several Of these have since
died. The oldest Of those now auvc
are Nancy Raines. Of Carter Furnace
Tenn. aged 100. and Ann Maria Yeung,
of Easton. PA who II in her 1olst year.
"A. Q. Courtney, Of Clay county. No.
says his wife has spun more thread.
woven more yards Of cloth, dropped
moro corn, piled more hazel brush and
burnt II, bound more bundles Of grain.
loaded more wagons with the same
and sat more babies on a board while
out ct work than any woman now hv-
ing on earth.
--Capt..I We'll Wilson. Of New York
city. e one Of tia two surviving officers
Of Kaine's pioneer Arctic uxpeslif ion
He lost one toe as rssuftzof the priva-
tions he underwent, and had an attack
Of scurvy, but suffered no other In
juries He is said to be q well-pre-
served gentleman, delighting In remin-
iseuces OF the expedition.
The progress OF death was uniquely
reported by the dying DIR. Richet to his
son, professor Of physiology, and his
physician. As his end approached he
carefully described to them every per-
eeptible sensation. At the moment
when they observed unmistakable
signs Of immediate dissolution he sur
prised them by saying; "You SEQ am
dying"
"A telegram was sent from Chicago
toza st Paul man announcing the death
OF his brother. The telegram was
never received, and the Borrowing sur
vivor therefore sues the Western Union
Co. for 81. 900 damages, ss salve for
his lacerated feelings, because, as he
asserts in his complaint he twas de-
prived Of the satisfaction and pleasure
of seeing his said brother and being
present at the funeral"
Alice Fletcher, whose name Is SO
prominently connected with the worlds
fair and the Indian question, Is one Of
the few women who have met the red
man on his native heath and lived the
life Of q child of the forest Miss
Fletcher slept in tepees ate her dinner
out of one dish with the rest of the
family, dressed in skins and studied
the Indian problem so thoroughly un-
der these conditions that she solved 1t
and is only waiting for the public to
adopt her solution. =s==7 =s
One of the charges brought against
his wife by man in Beaver, Pa, in q
suit for divorce, was her rude and un-
ladylike way Of serving him with fried
eggs On Sunday morning, while she
was preparing breakfast, and he was
getting ready for church, they had
some verbal disagreement and she en-
phasized her remarks by throwing
dish of fried eggs at him. This treat
ment made him hopping mad, and his
comments upon her conduct SO angered
her that she avowed her determination
to hereafter let him have them raw in
the she'll
Two negroes have attained TO
iudgeships in British colonies. One,
Joseph Benner Maxwell, is chief judi
cial officer at the Gambia, in Africa,
and oddly enough he has written
work upon the negro question In which
he speaks with apparent horror OF the
most striking outward peculiarities of
his race, and urges as the only method
of elevating the negro Of the future
miscegenation with other races. Tho
other negro is Judge Sir w. @. Reeves,
chief justice OF Barbados, In the Brit
ish West Indies. He presides over the
supreme court. and there are in the Isl.
and seven police magistrates of subor~
dinate jurisdiction.