The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-12

reason Tor occupying INC peeAtAGS A0 A
formerly refused, is that he is about to
again enter the matrimonial state. A
few years ago he was reported to be en-
cared to the countess of Chesterfield, and
his present fancee is said to be friend
of hers, The new peer was born Dec
q, 1906.
Ex-EMpREss Eugene still wears fine
clothes. She recently wore, while lunch
ngwith queen Victoria at Windsor cas-
tie, an exquisite costume of black gros-
grain. with overskirtan sleeveless bodice
of Grape, and to the belt at her waist she
had a pouch suspended, made of Grape
and embroidered magnifcently in silk
with her monogram, her arms and her I'm
perial crown.
Or the South Pass jetty works the
New Orleans Bulletin says: "The jetty
contractors are busily employed in con-
structiug the desired works at the head
of the improved pass to get to deep water
We have no doubt but that if they keep
on as they have been working for some
time past, they will gain the end SO
ardently hoped for and SO long awaited
in vain"
SCATTERED about the earth there are
supposed to be 100000 or 100000
of Jews alive. Thousands of these peO-
pIe are rich, some of them own colossal
fortunes. Rothschild could buy up the
fee simple of Palestine. Goldsmith might
rebuild the temple of HerOd. Monte
fore has money enough to cast golden
statue of king Solomon. But of those
wealthy Hebrews, not one is willing to
60 back.
THE hair of woman nearly ninety
years of age, who died in Martha's Vine
yard, was wholly woven in with false hair
which had not been removed for over tIIir-
ty years, and was held in place by one
hundred and eighty pins. One article OF
her dress was held together by three hun
bred and eight pins, although her bureau
contained ninety-eight new dress-patterns
of all kinds and qualities, some Of them
bought sixty-four years ago, and one ele-
giant brocade silk could be traced back
two hundred years.
THE Turks have an enviabe facility OF
disposing Of incompetent or unsatis'ac-
tory sultans. Murad Efendi had hardly
seated himself upon the throne into
which he was forced after Abdul Aziz
had made such an efiectual use of pair
of scissors in his bath when he was sum-
marily retired and Abdul Hamid has
been declared sultan in his stead There
is little use in giving the details Of the
new sultan's biography, 'as they will
doubtless appear in his obituary in a day
or two. The deposed sultan WAS in
curably addicted to strong drink, and
telcrtum tremens were untavorable TO the
management of affairs in the present
critical situation OF the Turkish state.
1t is to be hoped that the new sultan
will have the good sense to keep sober
and save his own head.
RUFUS CHOATE is the subject OF an
article full of "reminiscences in the Alba
ny Law Journal. The writer describes
him as six feet in height, with a power
iul chest and shoulders, and gaunt
frame. His hands and feet were large,
and he walked with a rolling gate. His
face, of a bilious, cofee.coIored complex
ion, was deeply corrufated with wrinkles
and hollows. and his eyes, large deep.set,
aud wonderfully expressive. His hair
was black, curly and luxuriant. He was
generally attired in ill-ftting, slouching
garments. He shrieked, raved, swung
his fists, and distorted his body into un.
natural contortions, and poured forth
his arguments with startling force and
velocity; but with the arrangement, de-
tail and orator, utterly tOrgctGul of him
self in the abandon of the moment, his
whole s0ul being thrown into the cause
he had undertaken to present.
THE PUBLIC DEBT ST4TEMENT.