Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-11-10
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.


The yearly average of persons SEN
fenced to penal servitude in England
and Wales has decreased from 1850
in 1859 to 1888 in 1895
The Oldest member of the House of
Commons is Mr.. Villiers, who is 90.
He and Sir Isaac Holden. who is 81,
are the only members of the House
who are older than Mr.. Gladstone.
DIR. Y. May Kin, now practicing in
Kobe. Japan. was the first Chinese
lady to receive a medical degree in
America, and the first scientifically
educated female practitioner in Japan.
There are now Methodist congre-
cations in Salt Lake City, S of which
belong to the Utah Mission of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. to the
African Methodist Episcopal. to the
Seandinavians and to the Free Meth
odists.
The Emperor Of Russia has four
separate services" of horses and car
riages. Fifty horses comprise each
set, and in one the horses are perfect
ly white. with blue eyes. and anything
more magnificent in the way of trap
pings than their harness can hardly
be conceived.
II is calculated that in 1865 the
wealth of the Rothschilds will have
increased from s. 900. 600, 900 to 500,
900, 900. 900. By that time the kings
of Europe will be renting their palaces
from them by the month. All their
wealth has been built up since the
battle of Waterloo.
1t has been generally said that 20.
X" was President Andrew Jackson S
abbreviation for "all correct" Prof.
w. S. Wynian, of the University of
Alabama. however, thinks that
President Jackson borrowed the phrase
from the Choctaw language, in which
the word ''okeh" means cit is all
right"
More than 200 French cities have
resolved to erect statues in honor of
the late President Carnot, and it is ex-
pected that soon almost every French
town will have Carnot street or
square. Hitherto Gambetta has had
the lead, 4zo streets being named af-
ter him. Hugo follows with $40,
THEIRS with 200.
Lady Sophia Cecil, aunt of the Mar
quis of Exeter, WHO'S now 81 years old
is the last survivor of the famous ball
at Brussels on the night before Water
loo. She is daughter of the Duchess
Of Richmond. who gave the ball, and
danced that night with the Duke OF
Brunswick. who was killed next day
at Quatre Bras.
Cancer has been hereditary i'll the
Romanof family since the time of the
wife of Emperor, Nicholas I. Princess
Charlotte of Prussia, the sister of Kai-
ser Wilhelm 1. She died of it, as did
her mother, Queen Louise of Prussia;
of her children, the Grand Duchess of
Leuchtenberg and the Cars uncle,
Grand Duke Nicholas. certainly died
of the same disease, and it is believed
to have carried off the late Queen of
Wurtembefg.-New York Sun.
Rev. Sabine Barring Gould, the au-
thor of the popular hymn. Onward.
Christian Soldier" is at once coun-
try parson, country squire, lord of
the manor, sermon writer, student
of comparative religion, popular
novelist and poet He has written fif-
ty books, is deeply versed i'll medi9-
val myths and legends. and at the
same time is in sympathy with mod
ern life and progress. He is 90 years
old, and lives in the beautiful old
Elizabcthan manor house at Lew
Frenchard. where the Gould family
have lived ever since the days of
James l.