Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1894-06-12
THE LISTENER.

]. PIN, the English tennis champion, is
an Irishman by birth.
Krupp, In Essen, Is the second richest
man in Prussia, having an annual income
of over Z, 600, 600 marks.
j. L. NoIloy, the song writer, Is an Eng
lish baTTister, who divides his time between
his profession and music, which he consid-
ers a recreation.
The shattered health and mental trouble
Of Lord Randolph Churchill Will soon lead
to the retirement from politics OF that bril-
liant English statesman.
President Cleveland almost invariably
bags rheumatic attack when he goes of
on a shooting trip, and so did General Har-
rison when he used 10 go touring for ducks.
Brother Sullivan Is leader. Brother Mitch
ell plays the viola, aud Brother Corbett
plays the violin In Tioga Methodist Episco-
pal Sunday school, Philadelphia-a strik-
ing coincidence.
Policeman Steele of Manchester, n. h,
weighs $50 pounds. During recent fire he
carried down five flights OF stairs n sick
man who tipped the scales at 500. He was
loudly cheered by the crowd.
Congressman Everett has been an en-,
thusiRsr for baseball these 20 years, and
while he was the Adams academy head
master he used to be on the grass in n broil-
ing sun to watch the boys play game,
Henry W. Grady, son of the Georgia
orator, has been admitted to the bar at At
lnnta after having passed with credit Sc
we're examination. He resembles his father
both in appearance and in mental endow-
ment.
DOVE, the Mannheim tailor whose bullet
proof fabric is likely to make many others
as well as himself wealthy, was so poor
when he had his discovery completed that
he had to borrow revolver to test the
cloth. aq
When Galushn a. Grow was vigorously
supporting the emancipation proposition in
the war congress, George Washington Muir
ray, who sits beside him in the present
house, was n barefooted slave boy on q South
Carolina plantation.
A. James Halford, brother OF ex-Presi-
dent Harrison's former private secretary, is
one of the United Press reporters in Wash
| ington. Fifteen years ago Mr.. Halforjl was
one of the best known newspaper men in
the west aud a paragrapher of rare merit,
Senator Hill takes all his meals in his
room privately. He takes the same thing
for breakfast and dinner-sirloin steAk,
fried potatoes, coffee and bread. He never
varies. He takes the same thing every day
without change and reads his letters while
he eats.
Sir Charles Dixie, who, with all his faults,
is one OF the best informed men and ablesb
thinkers in England, says frankly that IL
the control of the sea were lost nothing
could save England from invasion, land
once invaded England would be swept out
of existence in n week"
Tho venerable George w. Jones of Du-
buque, Ia, x-United States senator, now
about 90 years of age, has struck financial
luck at last after n long life of comparative
poverty. 1t is in the form of quarter in
terest in r lead mine which is turning ont
$4,000 pounds of ore day.
Sir Howell Salmon has had an interesting
career in the British navy. When 12 years
old, he became cadet, was made n COM
mander at the age OF 20, a post captain when
2S and has been ON the admiral list for ID
years He is soon to become commander
in chief at Portsmouth, England.
Mr. Gallery of Louisiana is the fourth
person to be elected to a term in the United
States senate which win extend over into
the twentieth century, Messrs. William
Lindsay of Kentucky, John II. Gear of
Iowa and William S. Martin of Virginia
have also been chosen for the next long
term.