St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-07-11
PERSONAL AND uMPERsoNAL

Sir Thomas Brassey, one of the rich
est men in the world, says that the life
Of the rich man is not happy one.
Mrs. Laura J. Arnold, the only
living sister of Stonewall jackson, is
now an inmate of sanitarium at
Columbus. 0.
"A marriage license has been issued
to a couple at Saratoga, Santa Clara
County, whose joint ages number one
hundred and sixty-three years.-SGn
Francisco (Cal. Bulletin.
Colonel Lamont, as Private Secre-
tary of Governor Cleveland, of New
York, received four thousand dollars
salary per annum. AS Private Secre-
tary of President Cleveland of the
United States he will receive only three
thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Chicago Journal.
The New York policeman who
went down to Guatemala to organize
the police force there, is now the most
powerful man in the republic next to
President Barrios, and gets salary OF
five thousand dollars years, an i'm
mense sum in Guatemala.-N. 7. San.
Sarah Bernhardt gets three hum
dred dollars day for acting. Of this
her creditors take one hundred and
eighty, leaving her one hundred and
twenty dollars. Her table costs her
twenty dollars a day, and fuel and
lights about five dollars more. Her
carriage hire has sold her own
equipage-comes to eight dollars q
day, and cosmetics, including rouge,
five dollars more.
Romantic lovers of late seem to
prefer that some peculiarity-a mar
riage remembrance, as it were--shall
attach to the important moment when
their lives and fortunes become united
for better or worse. At San Saba,
Tex, the other day, q couple We're
married on the street, sitting in a
buggy, the bridegroom armed with a
rifle and the bride with a revolver.
They feared the brides relatives.
Italian papers are bewailing the
extent and intensity of the emigrant
fever among the peasantry. They say
that the ship loads of emigrants who
are taken from Italy to America are
draining Italy of it's most productive
factors. The tide of emigration, they
say, is assuming proportions which is
calamitous to the state, and they IL
stance the fact that one Project alone
is@Sed last year six thousand passports
for emigrants to America.
For the last five years Chicago
photographer has been collecting pho
tographs of prominent persons con-
nected with that city. with the object
of having them sealed up in memorial
safe, decided over to the city, and de-
posted in the courthouse vaults with
the archives Of the city until the second
centennial, of 1876. He has already
prepared five thousand, seven hundred
and forty-six of these photographs, and
expects TO collect ten thousand alto.
igether. Chicago Herald.
I DIR. Goersen, the Philadelphia muir
derer, hanged recently, had an ingeni-
GUS arrangement to enable him to read
at night. AS there was neither a gas
Jet nor lamp allowed in his cell, he
was obliged to devise some means to
enable him to pass away the time in
reading. He obtained a sheet of tin,
and, after Frightening it, placed it out
side his window at such an angle as to
catch the rays of light from gas lamp
in the kitchen yard, sixty feet away
from his cell. These rays were then
concentrated inside of his cell by
means of a magnifying glass, and BY
placing his book or paper near the
glass he obtained enough light to read
by. Philadelphia Press.