The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-10-13
Personal Notes,

f. Marion Crawfords Children of the
King is nearly ready for publication.
Senator Allison has not, SO far as is
known in Washington, resigned his |
place in the International Monetary
Commission
Queen Victoria has not worn corsets
for many years. Princess Beatrice fol
lows her mother in this respect, and has
also dircarded the corset.
A colossal statue of Columbus for the
Chicago Exhibition has been completed
by the Virginia sculptor, Mr.. Ezekiel.
Much of the money which Mrs. Gener-
al Custer realized by her readings last
winter has gone towards educating
young girl whose father died on the
same field with her husband.
M. Turpin, the inventor of the explo
sive melinite, who Is now undergoing
five years imprisonment, claims to have
finally solved the problem of aerial
steering.
Among more than dozen competi-
tors the San Francisco sculptor, Rupert
Schmidt, has secured the highest award
in the competition for the German mon
ument at Milwaukee.
Miss Mary E. Wilkins is said to write
1000 words-no more, no less-every
day. Sometimes when the spirit of i'm
agination is especially fiery she does this
much within an hour.
Queen Margaret's College is the only
college for women in Scotland that fits
them for university degrees. 1t was
founded about fifteen years years ago,
and has 200 students in art, science, and
medicine.
A New York publisher is about to
bring out book called Columbus and
Columbia, for which MIR. Blaine has
written an article of 11,000 words, for
which he has been paid $4,000.
James Henry Elphinstone, one of the
Oldest of the English managers, is dead
at the age of seventy-three. He played
Macbeth when only eighteen. About
1891 he went into management
The French painter Gerome is report
ed to be about to wholly give up the
use of the brush for the chisel. The
figures of Bellona and Galatea in the
Salon were tinted after the manner of
ancient Greek sculpture.
The King and Queen of Denmark are
expected to reach England about the
middle of November, on a visit to the
Prince and Princess of Wales at Sand
bingham and they will be the guests OF
the Queen at Windsor Castle for a few
days.
Miss Frances Tallman, of Thompson,
Conn.,, to whom Ferdinand Ward is
said to be engaged, is a brunette, nine
teen years of age, rich, and a niece Of
DR.. T. Thatcher Graves, now under sen
tence of death at Denver for the poison
ing of Mrs. Barnaby.
Mrs Hannah Birrell, who died in Og
den. Utah, recently, was once one of the
best-known actresses in the West Sht
was born in England in 1917, and cam.
to this country in 1850 with her husband
an actor and manager. She retired
from the stage in 1865.
Professor William James, of Harvard
does not conceal the fact that he is 9TH
brother of Henry James, the novelist.
But he is better known as an eminen
scholar and suggestive writer. He say
Orthodoxy is almost as much a MATES
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ion.n
The other day the Bishop of Sodo
and Nav CDR. Stratton) preached in tn,
open air, on Douglas Head, to congre-
cation of about 1900 persons, on be
half of the Lifeboat Fund. The offer
tory amounted to nearly f55, and Their
were more than 5000 pennies in the col
lection.
Eugene Tompkins, one of the lessee
of the New York Academy of Music ant
the revivalist of the Black Crook, is on,
of the youngest prominent theatrica
managers in America. He is dark, black
haired. black-eyed, and black nous
tached. He wears eyeglasses and look
athletic.
F. Edwin Elwells statue of "Dickep
and Little Nell," we'll known in Phila
delphia has met with much favor in Lon
don, where it has been enjoyed by thou
sands who have seen at the Horticultu
raj Exhibition. The press comment
have been extremely friendly and land
atory, and the fact that an American
sculptor has taken for his subject one o
the most charming characters of tn
most charming characters of the grea
English novelist has furnished the basi
of kindly criticism, in which American
art and artists come in for hearty praise
Punch drops the comic mask for a mo-
ment and seriously discusses Mr.. Elwelr
work in this vein: ''The child, looking
mp into the face of the great creative
genius who loved this offering of hi
sympathetic fancy better than did al
her other admirers, is a pathetic figure
and gives to the monument more hui
man aud less coldly mortuary aspect
than, unhappily, is usual in such work
1t is a touch of nature that makes even
the adjunct of the maus leum akin to
the world of the living and loving"
It Should Be in Every House.
JB. Wilson, 81 Clay ST., Sharpsburg
Pa, says he will not be without DR.
Kings New Discovery for Consumption
Coughs and Colds, that it has cured biz
wife who was threatened with Pneumo-
"a ~ k<>f (lriv nvryt,
various other remedies and several phys
icians had done her no good. Rober1