The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-09-01

PERSONAL AND lMPERsoNAs:

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While q colored resident 81 Iscba<
non, Conn.,, was sleeping tho other
night he swallowed his false teeth
Salvini, the tragcdian, Ii said 10 b.
TIC only man on the stage who wnS
horn in palace. II was the Palace
Cnprainca, in Milan, now called the
Grille palace. il, honor Of Ristori, who
II countess 81 Grille.
"A tradesman on Tintbush avenue,
Brooklyn, has big sign stretched
across the front Of his storc bearing H.
large black letters the legend 'Dcnlcr
in Green Goods He selll vegetables
and general garden truck.
"A man who was apt to forget some
important duty when tho day came Ia
discharge 1t, used 10 write postal card
70 himself and mall ID 10 Ii would reach
him at the right time II wouldn't be
o bad idea II only one could remember
10 write the postal carii
nsen Fieteria has. Ne thpf skol11s
en-, her pet sstperstitions. one 81 which
Is the belief that anything made by :
blind person brings luck. Accordingly
the cradle with all It's furnishings for
the latest Hattenbsrg baby has boon
prepared entirely by the blind
Joseph Pulitzer, Of the World has
cabled subscription OF 5000 to the
permanent charity fund Of the New
York Press club This makes the third
q, 900 gift the charity fund has received
within two years. The other two were
given by w. w. and John Jacob Astor.
REV. DR. William II. Furncss
the venerable Unitarian clergyman Of
Philadelphia, is the oldest graduate of
Harvard, having been graduated IN tho
class of 1920 Rev. DIR. Frederick
A. Farley of brooklyn, who died March
"a, this year, was Mt the time 81 his
death the oldest graduate.
IT. b. Ballcntine OF Norfolk. who
has accumulated wealth in truck
farming. has purchased square Of
ground in that city on which he means
to erect widows home" He has no
children to inherit his estate, and In
tends to bequeath TO this institution
the revenue from his city property
Miss BERTHE o. Burr, Of Nebraska,
will probably receive the governments
gold medal for having displayed both
heroism aud endurance in the rescue OF
two young ladies from drowning 10 the
Blue river near Crete, Neb., last SUM
mcr. Miss Burr learned to swim ut In
sell female seminary, Auburndale,
Mass.
"A famous duchess In London recent
ly went through the ordeal Of having
dress made on her own figure. She
stood for three hours while the drcss-
makers wrought fifty yards Of rare old
lace that could not be cut into q gown
for soirce, ut the close of which every
stitch had 10 be carefully cut and
picked out before the lady could dis
robe.
They are fond Of old things down
in Delaware. A Sussex county farmer
preserves with pious care and exhibits
with pride an ear Of corn grown upon
his fathers farm in 1888, and another
produced from tho ancestral acres In
1875. Both ears look well. but on cx-
animation they prove to be damaged by
weevil, and the grains are found to
have lost the germinal spark Of life
Cyrus w. Field was the oldest hon
orary member Of the New York cham
bel. of commerce. He was elected In
1858, after he had succeeded in laying
the first cable There have been only
nineteen honorary members since the
chamber was organized in l76s, SO that
the distinction is a high one There
are now ten honorary mcmbersex
President Cleveland, ex-Secretary Ham
iIton Fish. ex-Secretarv William M
Evarts, John Sherman, ex-Secretary
Carl Schurz, John Bigelow, George
William Curtis, Thomas A. Edison,
Judge Enoch Fapcher, and Whitelaw
Reid.