St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-02-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary

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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary $50
-Wilkie Collins says he has earned
$4,000 with his pen.
The Atlanta Constitution thinks Mrs
-->: fgl BITnett'sl Southern dialect is not the
correct article.
Mrs. f. L. Davenport, the widow Of
the distinguished actor, is giving dramat-
ic readings in New York.
"Ouida y has written a new novel
entitled ''Moths, in which many noted
persons will appear in very thin dis
: guise. ,r.fF ..},.-aF as@As ~
Mrs Tennyson composed the music
for her husbands song which appears
in the March number Of st. Nicholas
Mr., Samuel Smiles has received
Il 4 from the King Of Italy a valuable
decoration as mark of the royal
appreciation of his books g Self Help
translated, has been sold in Italy to the
number of $4,000 copies. -
VTE2,T, "A prize ofSf2OO has been offered by
Z the Rev. Wyatt Edgell, through the
Sanitary Institute of Great Britain for
the best essay that may be written by
Aug. next, on sThe Cause of Hered-
itaFy Tendencies in Health and Dis
Mary Kyle Dallas lives in New York
She earns $4,000 year from Bonners
Ledger, and although not yet 40 years
old her hair is snow-white. She wears
it dressed in puffs piled upon her head
and with bunch of crimson roses on
Ftt one side. ''s@' '% .#"ls."a
60 rsHf> MARY Clemmer, the Washington
correspondent, is woman of command
#e 800 ing height, a striking face, blue eyes,
t., delicate complexion and brown hair,
worn In clustering curls over her fore
II dH head, and simply knotted at the back of
her head. She is energetic and electric
? L'.'' IN conversation trit1e imperious in
~sanf nj manner. a7s} ztE sa
Or the reported rupture of Miss
.aGI. Julia Fletchers engagement, the Lon
don Globe says: g American society in
''.| Rome is Just now much exercised by the
abrupt termination to the matrimonial
engagement between Miss Fletcher
- authoress of Kismet, and Lord Went
"a WORTH In this TRANSACTION no blame is
: attached 70 the LADY, but the genflehan
Nine. Colban is distinguished
t5.gts Norwegian writer who didtnot attempt
authorship until she was nearly 60 years
old. She has produced since then five
romances, which are described as charm- 4
ing. Her children were established in |
EN- ife: her heath began to fail, and her
duties and amusements as a woman of
society grew irksome. So she went to |
live in Rome, where she has renewed
her youth in literary work. "a Il
1000 ss@eJs,saaI Church.
In the last 20 years the Methodist
missions have received upwards of ten
million dollars
AT recent session of the North
3px.s Mississippi Conference OF tie Methodist
Episcopal Church South the Bishop de-
cided that a lady who had been elected
as lay delegate could not serve. He
said both the discipline and the Bible
excludedaWomen from holding church
offices. o.<I/t1
"A public spirited NIississppian, DR..
T. NJ Walden, has made an offer to the
Legislature Of MiSSissnni nr tho var;cuo
churches of the State to give $4,000
towards the erection of a college at Val
den, provided that either the churches
f'a'tE@ or the lawmakers will give the other
;tsf8s $4,000 required. af' i
lf5@ "A few years ago, on the occasion of {
asa}t the visit OF Professor Huxley to this
sa+4z country, he said within ten years the J
.4-.ar natural sciences would be taught in the :
t common schools here. Iowa has moved
IN the matter, with the usual prompt T
n#' ness OF that State in educational matters,
t&Hhi and organized a State Academy of 4
ls#nf Sciences, located at the capital, with t
cess library. laboratory and museum, to be t
Aa4s open to the free use of all the normal $
f schools held at the capital -
The Superintendent OF Public In
ta3 ~stIpetign Of Kentucky, in his report for
1917, claims that the public school sys-
tenn OF that State has made great
- sstssi advance within the last ten wears.
,3sf.. So Eighteen hundred school houses, most
OF them tasteful and comfortable have
been built within the last eight years;
and g home supply Of teachers has been
-1s ~ furnished from the best young men and
ra ,r women of the State, who, choosing the
business for their life work, are taking
the places of the former temporary
teachers. nj
Science and Industry. 9s5#~ f.
yEEr-VTginia's peanut crop for 1879 is
Hi valued at 81 100000.