The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-03-27
TALK ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mrs. HUMPHREY WARD has received ten
thousand dollars so far from "Robert Els
mere"
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES has his walks
and his haunts like other men. The book
stores and large publishing houses are his
resorts.
PROF. PRoCToR's widow, who will con-
tinue her residence in Florida, is to receive
a pension of five hundred dollars a year
from the British Government.
DR.. TANNER, the faster, maintains that
the growing use of opium and its COM
pounds frequently produces syncope nova
days, which leads to interment before
actual death.
SENATOR VANCE, of North Carolina, is
profound student of the Bible, and his
knowledge of the Scriptures shows itself in
his speeches, many phrases of which are in
Biblical language.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL says that he re-
ceives scores of letters from the younger
sons of wealthy and titled Englishmen ask
ing about the avenues of employment in the
United States.
GEORGE KEENAN,, the Siberian traveller,
| is said to be the only known American who
, ever completely mastered the Russian Ian
guage, except Caleb Gushing, formerly
Minister to st. Petersburg.
| MRS. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT will erect q
monument over the grave of General Fran
els Marion. The grave is on an old planta-
ton near Charleston. Mrs. Vanderbilt
finds she is descended from the Marions.
A KANSAS admirer of Mrs. Harrison has
presented her with a magnificent broom,
made of the best straw which Kansas can
produce. The handle is covered with straw
and silver wire representing maple leaves,
flags and the signature of Mrs. Harrison.
BILL NYE says the New York World paid
him SC, 900 the first year of his engagement
with it. After that, in lieu of increase, he
took the profits resulting from the sale OF
his articles to newspaper syndicate, and,
as he says, is making nearly three times bis
original salary.
CONGRESSMAN W. L. SCOTT, Of Erie, Pa, is
worth probably s15,OO0,0 0O, but he is one OF
the least ostentatious men in Congress.
His face is sallow and he is rather thin and
round-shouldered, with sparse sandy hair.
He represents, either as president or di-
rector, 22,0o0 miles of railroad.
THE chair in which President Cleveland
has sat for four years is one that he had
made to order and paid for himself. 1t is
made of tight oak, to match the desk made
from the timber of the Resolute and sent 10
the White House by Queen Victoria. 1t is
great, wide-spreading, revolving chair,
with a seat and back of split cane and a
heavy frame tastefully carved.
SENATOR ALLISON is great worker. He
retires early and rises early, eats simple
breakfast, reaches the Capitol long before
his colleagues, and pegs away at committee
work until noon. He always stays through
the session Of the Senate and watches every
move until adjournment. He then returns
to committee work until dinner time. He
is systematic in his habits, and is thus en-
abled to accomplish vast amount of work
He takes plenty of exercise and seldom in
dulges IN the designations of society.
IKE house which Mr.. Blame has rented
for the next four years at Washington is
the historical brick mansion where PHILIP
Barton Key died, and where the ASSASSIN
Payne tried TO kill Secretary Seward. Bel
KNAPP lived there Iii Grants time and Mrs
Bell1nap died there It has been in turn ;
family residence, boarding house, club
house, the social headquarters of two ad
ministrations, Government office and 1
vacant building stunned by house hunters
on account Of its reputation.