The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-05-05
PERSONAL AND lMPERsoNAL.

When the great musician Frederick
Chopin was young. his personal APP
pcarance was the Installing he thought
Of. In letter sent TO his parentsfrom
Vienna, in 1881. he says. II have left
my whiskers only on the right check.
They grow very well there, and there
is really no occasion to have them on
my left check, as always sit with the
right one toward the audiencer'
Col Souffiot. once in the armiea OF
Napoleon, celebrated the one hundredth
anniversary of his birth in Paris few
days since. In honor Of tho event he
WAS made commander Of the Legion
of Honor. AS long ago as 1918 Col
Soufiiot received the cross Of the Lee
gion. He became an officer of the
great society In 1s43 Despite his great
age, he is still said to be comparatively
healthy.
The tenor, Jean de Reske, makes
use OF no precautions to preserve his
fine voice from harm. He drinks and
smokes as his fancy lends him, goes
out into the night air without y mnfiler
about his throat, and IN other WhYA
shows himself singularly careless Of
his, precious lynx. The noted singer.
though an epicure and fond Of the good
things of life, is an athlete of some dis
tinction He rides, shoots and fences.
and possesses an active and muscular
physique.
Mine grains of morphine were
taken by Chicago topper, toward the
close OF prolonged spree, and he soon
became so alarmingly motionless that
physician was summoned. The lat.
tor said that the topper had passed be-
yond his skill, and therefore the cor
oner and an undertaken quickly APP
peared upon the scene. At this stage
ofzthe drama, and just as the under
taler.awas@ measuring tho supposed
corpse, the topper arose and anxiously
asked: whats all this fuss about?"
The value of asking questions
about things you do not understand
was never more clearly proven than
by an old lady visiting New York. Sho
was deeply interested in the opening
to the cable conduit in the Broadway
surface road, because she decided IL
was the slot in which passengers
dropped their fare before getting on
the car This was found out In q letter
she sent to her home, in which she
wrote, in describing the road: And
right between the tracks there is one
long slot from the Battery to Central
park, for the passengers to drop their
nickels in before they step on the car.
Rev. Robert Laird Collier once said
that when he first heard Spurgeon
preach he was grievously disappointed.
The matter of the sermon seemed to
him dull and at times fippant, and the
| manner of its delivery dreary when not
unpleasantly aggressive. The great
preachers prayer especially seemed
Extensively familiar. But when later
on he heard Spurgeon in the tabernacle
sway the minds Of seven thousand
auditors who listened eagerly to tho
convincing logic and the irresistible
eloquence Of the preacher, Mr.. Collier
was converted, heart and soul, to q be-
lief in his genius Spurgeon never
read his sermons and never used even
a scrap Of paper for notes.
Several years ago the Rothschilds
held large quantity Of cotton In New
Orleans, which they instructed their
agent in that city to sell when cotton
should reach certain price. The
agent believing that the price of cot
ton would go beyond the figure named
by his employers. held on till he was
able to sell it at price which Melted
forty thousand dollars more than he
would have got for it If he had obeyed
his orders from London. He joyfully
informed his employers his success,
supposing they would share his salts
faction at the result Imagine his sur
prise and chagrin when he received Q
reply, saying, in substances: "The
forty thousand dollars you made by dis
obeying your instructions is not ours
1t is yours. Take 1t. Mr.. -. your
successor, starts for New Orleans to-
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