The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-27
THE LISTENER.

President Kruger, whom young mar.
liked no sport SO well us lion hunting.
Caleb Gushing would never wear dress
suit, us ho said it matlo him feel uncom
| Portable
III rumor Is truo. t,Ic Rcv. =. Dewitt
Inlmage Is worth considerably moro than
| $500. GOO.
| John ID. Long. tho secretary of the M.
W, translated Virgil into English verse
many years ago.
| President Mckinley attended lectures Il t
the Albany Law school before he was atl
mittcd to the bnr.
Gerard Wallop, Esq, Is the namc of the
secretary OF the British National Society
| for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Colonel y. S. Ruokcr of Oklahoma
weighs l97 pounds and has taken the pre-
MUM lis the fat man at every territorial
| fair.
Ting Fang, the new Chinese minister mt
washington, is tho first representative of
the Flowcry Kingdom to the United States
| who has boon able to speak the English
! language.
Sir Charles Tenant is tho richest man
In Scotland. He spends certain portion
OF each year near the chemical works in
Glasgow which have brought him his
| great wealth
Count Nluravieff, Russia's foreign min
lister, has been nicknamod tho "keepcr of
Tho peace of Europe" He is a tall man.
with fnir hair and gray eyes, and never
drops bis single eyeglass except when
asleep.
r. NJ. Grover, blind justice of the
peace of Topeka, has u collection of more
than 100 razors, each with history, and
no can identify each ono and the case
which belongs to it. If Il strange razor is
placed among them, he detects it at once.
Isaac Mcclellan, the aged poet sportsman
OF Grccnport, \. Y, who recently cele-
DRAFTED his ninety -flrst birthday by playing
whist all evening Mt his club is troubled
but little by his ago and has his bonts,
fishing Tickle and shooting implements
always ready for use.
Gabriel Harrison, actor, manager dram
atist, historian of tho dramn, teacher, da-
gucrrcotypcr, photographer and painter,
ana acquainted with the most famous men
81 III ana 5Oycars ago, still lives in Brook
llyil, on the verge of so years, and is yet
busy i'll writing, teaching and painting.
John Horrgain, known as 'Praying
John" of Ellis, Kan, hns made it u prac.
ticc Tor many years TO go out on the prai-
RE at sunrise and at sunset, no matter
what the weather or season or his condi.
ton of health, and there to offer up prayer
His knees havo worn away tho turf and
hardened the soil ut the place of his deyo.
tons.
James Robinson, tho famous bareback;
rider, who began his career i'll 1915, is still
living III Mexico, Mo. with his wife Tho
feat which won him famc in 1S49 was
turning u back sonersuult whlo riding
backward on II running horse. He did the
trick afterwaru before half the sovercigns
of Europe. He retired from tho circus
ring with n fortune.
Henry Russell is the oldest English COM
poser living. He was born at Sheerncss
on Dec. 24, 1912. He has published more
than 500 songs. Come, Boys, Come, is
the air played when British regiment
leaves for abroad, and "a Life OH the
Ocean Wave" is the special march of tho
Royal marines. lie celebrates each birth
day by composing love SONG.
Rough on the Unmarried.
The North Frisians IRE very unmer-
| ciful to people who don't marry One of
their legends says that after death old
maids are doomed to cut stars out of the
sun when it has sunk below the hori
ION, and the ghosts of the old bachelors
must blow them up i'll the cast, run
ming, like lamplighters, all night up
and down IL ladder.