The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-05-24
psRsoNAI AND LITERARY.

peRsoNAl z AID LITERARY.
Lord Rosebery as school was 60
girlish that he was nickramed miss
Pritn," but former schooimatcs do not
venture to address, him now So. they
then did, "lfiss Prim." ts,1' 2
lit is said that In Rhode ISLANDS che
name Olney is commonly; pronounced
O'ney; but the. attorney-geperal him q !:
self pronouncesit Ol-neY, with the nc
cent on the FIRST syllable.
Foreign papers say chat Mascayni
has given himself up to gambling. and
has lost a large ipartio his fortune IN
Monte Carlo, II Is also said that ne
has severed his relations with his pa O.
Usher. Sonzagno. 3 :, i...:.,s..'i
-IIr., Gladstone. as one Of his dauRn-
ters says, Is always very careful to
avoid travelling Sunday, and also 70
put aside all secular work on thasday
and keep. himself to his special Sunday
books and thoughts. 80 7a.'ss., +ft>tt
Thomas Ellis, che new liberal
whip. Is the son .oi tenant farmer IN
Wales and SO thorough o Welshman
that he learned English as a foreign
language. By temperament. too as
we'll as by origin he is dcmocrat'c'
ID, Russell Brown, ex-governor,
hold.over governor and governor re.
elect OF Rhode Island H.. q native OF
Connecticut and forty-six years OF age.
he is the senior partner OF the great
mill supply store Of Brown Bros. q TO
of Providence. s.'Se -
The presfdent-has parioned Henry
Williams, of Texas; who was under
sentence for life land FIVE years" for
"holding up the. United States mails
IN 1870. In some countries he would
have been lucky to get the extra i've
years cut off. -
i The richest man In Prussia Is Al
bert Hoesch, who owes his wealth TO
his manufacturing establishments
(iron and paper, His income is about
80. coo. 600 a year, and his taxes last
wear. when his wealth wns rated half
q million more, were $4,000.
congressman Morse, Of Massachu-
sets, is not only a manufacturer OF
polish but of poetry. The combination
ought TO be- profitable. With the
poetry he can boom the polish. and
happily he may got g little OF the
polish on the poetry, and reap dis
tinct benefit In the literary end of has
dual output. =.
Alice Ayres was domestic servant
In London-the only support OF her
aged mother. In trying to rescue her
EMPLOYERS children when the house
burned down she lost her life. The
newspapers lauded her as heroine
and big monument was placed over
her grave. Her mother has just been
sent to the poorhouse.
The Amir of Afghanistan has pre-
sented the shrine of Imam Reza at
Meshed with a large Koran. 1t was
received with great pomp The gov
ernor, Prince N1oayyed-ed-Dowleh, re-
ceived it in person in the mosque.
The Koran is inclosed in valuab BILE
caslSet of massive silver and gold OF
beautiful workmanship. .-,......,
"A Princess Galitzen, in tights and
spangles, is barebac rider in French
circus. A Prince Krapotkin is cab
man In Moscow. A Prince Softykof is
o porter in st. Petersburg meat mar
ket. "A Princess Dolgorouki is singing
In concerts in America. a Prince Eris'
toff is serving sentence Of penal servi'
tude for stealing. On the whole. the
Russian princes seem to be working.
! Lewis c. vandegrift, who has been
nominated United States district attor'
ney for the district of Delaware' might
have been chief justice of the state
some time ago but for the fact. that he
felt that he could not give up the prac-
tice Of the law and accept life Office
at the very moderate salary paid to the
chief Justice of Delaware. Mr.. VaDde'
grift's ancestors were earlyDutch folks
OF New York who emigrated to. Della
ware two hundred years ago TO become
farmers and sea captains. lie Is grad.
uate OF the Harvard law school, and
Senator Gray was his office preceptor.