Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-07-04
Cosby Personals.

Secretary Lamar's favorite position in re-
pose is with his arms behind his back.
Mrs. Scott-Siddons will soon give some
dramatic recitals before the Crown Prince
and Princess Of Germany.
Prince Henry, of Battenburg, is said to
have an income of only 80 week. His tai
lOr is man to be pitied.
Vice-President Hendricks is swinging
round the circle with the ease and grace OF
Roman charloteer.
Miss Margaret Blaine, daughter of the ex-
Secretary, is an expert equestrienne. Her
riding habits are models of good taste.
Judge David Davis owns about 1000
acres of farm land in Illinois, and takes
more pride in it than he does in politics.
Secretary Bayard has returned from his
Western trip happy and cheerful. lie has
found there is no place like Delaware.
Ayoub Khan's name is said to be plain
Governor job" Being boss, he can gov
ern lob by any other name Just as well.
Ex-POstmaster-G General HattOn has bought
the Chicago Mail. He will hire a boy to
take charge of the postage stamp depart
ment
A Boston woman bOils beefsteaks for her
husband, and he asks for divorce. If she
fried them he would doubtless want to kill
her.
Clothes calculation shows that ten yards of
Irritation and bushel of gush constitute a
full seaside outfit for a fashionable young
lady.
Florence Marryat recently advised the
girls to "sit down on the men," just as If
that custom was entirely English, you
know"
A Kentucky woman who began smoking
at an early age died recently in her 10th
l.. II ipn IN, lnvaro of
the weed.
British Minister West at Washington
wears green spectacles while playing lawn
tennis. 1t is suspected he contracted the
habit In Boston.
NJ. Daudet, the eminent Frenchman, says
that he can't see the humor of Mark Twain.
That is as funny as the French translation
Of 1.-THE Jumping Frog"
An Indian dOctress in Cincinnati pulls
teeth to the music of a German band. This
proves that great agony will make the suf-
ferer forgetful of trifing pain.
The Dahomey girls defend their kingdom
by forming into armies and singing, instead
OF fighting. We all know the effect that
poor chorus singers have on an audience.
Alfred E. Burr, who is talked of as the
Democratic candidate for Governor of Con-
necticut, is good story teller, but never
gets off any 'chestnuts."
A Japanese student won the highest hon.
OTIS at New Brunswick IN. J0 grammar
school When it comes to English as she
is spoke" the almond-eyed heather takes
the cake.
Francis Murphy, the temperance agitstOr,
is soon to be married. The probabilities are
that he will never attempt to unlock the
front door late at night with buttOnhoOk.
Julius Caesar is said to have been 81, 0OO,-
600 i'm debt before he crossed the RubicOn.
Can it be possible that the nobleSt Roman of
them all ever tried to run a country news
paper?
1t was a wicked old bachelor who said
that girls who do not flirt die young. He
might have added that those who flirt a
great deal generally dye when they are old
maids.
According to Washington correspondent
Mrs. Bayard dresses like a lady of the old
school. She wears lace head-dreSS, out of
which peep rows of little gray curls. She is
an accomplished society woman.
Patti, who got $4,000 or $1,000 night for
singing i'm this country, gets only 81, 800 a
night in England. But then England is a
much smaller country than America, and
she doesn't have to sing as loud as she did
here remarks journalistic Mark Tapley.
JulianO de Souza, the chief of the semi
royal State Of Wvdah, has 5000 wives, who
constitute fully equipped band Of women
warriors. 1t is safe to say that JulianO does
not carry night-key.
Salisbury, the new Premier of England,
is said to be nice man, but an admirer as
serts that the newspaper portraits of him
give him an expression like that which
man acquires from biting on a tack i'm a
piece of mince pie.