The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-07-14
PERSONAL AND lMPERsoNAL.


"A Walla walfa, WASH, man about
year ago started q man out with
band Of sheep on the range. A few
days ago he received the following
from him: IF you want me to remain
here any longer, you'll have to get an.
other band Of sheep; tlsem's all gone"
The kaiscr's six little sons are sub
jected 10 a severe regimen by their
father. They sleep in plain. bare
room, upon iron cots, with hard mat
tresses and scant bed-clothes. At seven
every morning they take a cold bath
and are then put through vigorous GYM
nastic exercises.
"A friend of Mr.. Surgeons once
asked him II he knew that some people
thought him conceited. 1t is said he
smiled, pointed TO his book shelves,
spoke of his many sermons translated
into every language, alsos. Of the vast
audiences he had. and replied: II won
der I'm not more conceited than am
There Is but one paupcr in the town
of Whitncyville, Me-, and that one Is q
festive xisiewlwha looks out for herself
ten month"; @fu@ttifle=s art Is evident;
that she will soon be entirely independ-
emit, for her iastrequest of the overseers
reads as follows: please send me ten
yards of red ribbon and new dress,
and let the dress be good enough to
wear as principal at a wedding"
GHelen A. Keller, who is pupil in
the school for the blind where Laura
Bridgman was taught, is, according TO
all accounts, most remarkable child.
She lost sight and hearing when a mere
babe, and was sent to the school to be
taught finger speech. Although only
eleven years old, she is an intellectual
wonder. She learns with marvellous
rapidity. has acquired oral speech, and
manifcsts a mental power and grasp
that would be phenomenal in child in
full possession Of her senses.
1T has been discovered that Napo-
leon |. was book canvasser; that
George Washington followed the same
illustrious business, selling over two
hundred copies Of Bydclfs American
Savage;s that Longfellow sold books by
subscription; that Daniel Webster ham
died De Tocqueville's 'America;" that
Gen. Grant canvassed for Irving's Go
lumbus;" that Blaine began life as IA
canvasser for a Life of Henry Clay
and that bismarck, when Mt Heidelberg,
took orders for one of Blumenbach's
handbooks.
The oldest woman in the country
who Is a preacher, 1t is thought, is Rev.
Lydia Sexton, Of Seattle, now ninety
three years Of age. She has been in
service about half century. For eight
or ten years she was an exhorter before
receiving a regular license to preach in
1851. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois were
her field prior to 1870, when with her
husband she removed to Kansas. Seattle
was adopted as her home three years
ago. She has since then conducted
many revival and other meetings, but
failing eyesight threatens to terminate
her activity ere long She hopes to live
to be full hundred years old.
One of the most eloquent, dignified,
and famous clergymen of New York re-
Gently received letter from rough
and-ready western man which ran soIue-
thing like this: Dear Sir: / dropped
into your place last Sunday and heard
you preach. In the main liked what
you said first rate, but when you re-
marked in one place that men, of them
selves, are unable TO do any good thing
you were talking through your hat.
Out my way ] know plenty OF tough
men who sometimes do noble and good
actions. Excuse my blunt way OF talk
ing, but am plain man and prefer TO
call spade spade. just give human
nature show, and am sure your SER
mons will be much more effective"