Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-03-19
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.


MRS HuMPHRY WARD is Al years cd.
QUEEN NICToRIA's household number
LOCO persons.
SENATOR CULLoM fs said to resemble
Abraham Lincoln.
The Duke of + Edinburgh Is, after the
9leen, the richest member of the royal
family,
EX-SENATOR INGALLS, has declined an offer
OF SIT. 00l year to become the editor OF new
! local afternoon paper in Ka sas City.
GENERAL" BooTH, of the Salvation
Army, attracted much attention in Rome
where he was mistaken for precursor OF the
carnival.
THE Co,nte d'Andlau, the French exile
who recently died in South America, was one
OF the few habituai gamblers who always
came out ahead OF the gIme.
EMILE FLYGARE-CARLEN the venerable
Swedish novelist, in her day the most popular
OF scandinavian writers of fiction, passed.
away recently in Stockholm, in her Sjth
year.
GOVERNOR FRANCIS, of Missouri, is q
stlckler for "the swaiow-tail" coat at his
reception. Colonel Richard Dalton, who
vans TO succeed Francis, says that if he is
elected Governor the ople MY call OH him
in their shirt-sleeves.
lie OTahh Dukf Idul, OF hassla, carries
his bed about with him when he travels, not
as IN the case of Queen Victoria, beeaus; she
prefers it to others, but because he is so tall
ne cannot sleep in a beds:eal Of ordinary
proportions
FRED. TARAL, a well-kaown Western
rider has signed a contract by which he gets
Sl7, 600 for his services as jockey for two
stables this year. an he expects to get more
than half as much more from outside riding.
lie IS mount ne 10 success.
SENATOR GORDON says that when he was
wounded at the battle of Sharpsburx he
thought his head was carried away By q
cannon ball. II then struck him that it his
head was gone he could not think and even.
tually he discovered that the und was not
so serious alter nil.
SIMON NEwCOMB, senior professor Of
mathematics in the United States Naval
Academy, and professor OF matthew ltics and
astronomy at Johns Hopkins University has
just received his diploma Of election as an
honorary member OF the Royal Institute Of
London.
NJ. c. CREEDE, the owner Of the Last
Chance and Monarch mines at the new camp
in Colorado that bears his name, is a nltIve
Of Illinois, who settled Ia Colorado in 1870.
lie is nian slightly ABOVE medium height,
lean, and of sandy complexion. and is /
years Of age although he looks much younger.
After prospecting for twenty years all over
the Stale he now finds himself a millionaire.
lie is Sid to be the m st genial and unaffected
fellow ia the new diggsngs.
SENATOR SHERMAN is quoted as saying
that his brother ought to have lived longer
than ne did. "Aftrr the General retired IRON
service, " said the Senator, mis- desire 10 be
among the people took him out to dinners and
entertainments OF all sorts and probably was
too much OF n lax upon his years. | think he
would have b EN- living yet If he ma kept in
at 81 ghts. When he came 10 Washington he
stopped with me an We gave him a key to
come and 20 as he p.easeI, but we were in
bed before lie would come IN" The suryiY-
ing brother Of TINS famous officer is about 70
buIld new house IN Washington, not Tor his
own use. but as m investment.