St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-12-06
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Rider Haggsrd's afst book was .
complete failure. 1t WAS ''Catewayo
f, and His White Neighbor." He made
$40 ON his second, dawn"
Sir Edward Guinness. tho big Dublin
brewer, is to be raised TO tho peera9e.
One Of the family has already got there
under the title Of Lord Ardilaun.
The first order for the Carnegie free
library in Pittsburgh IL for 1900 vol
umes. and it will require nearly six
months to fill It ~ books 60 out Of
print so rapidly.
-Ismael Pasha. the ex-Khedivo Of
Egypt is practically . prisoner at his
residence ON tho l3osporuA Tho
Turkish Government recently refused
him permission to 90 to Carlsbad to take
tho waters for his health.
Tho Empress Frederick has b.
tween her jointure, her husbands fort
une and the Duchess Of Galliefs's BE-
quest an income Of so. 600 year. Tho
English taxpayer has had to contribute
$4,000 year to her support for tho past
thirty-threo years
When the Queen had read "Alice In
Wonderland" she personally solicited
its author by letter to send her another
of his charming books" Then the
droll gentleman. who is follow OF
Christ Church College. sent Her Maies-
ty his treatise on tho "Dinerential Cal
culus."
Tho number Of volumes added &c
tho British museum library last year
was 81. 500; of these nearly 10. 900 arc
now books received from tho publishers
in pursuance Of tho English copyright;
4,695 volumes have been presented. and
no fewer than 1850 acquired By pur-
chase.
That mysterious quality called
gift" strikingly revealed itself in the
childhood Of tho distinguished French
artist, Nine. Jeanne Madeline Lemaire.
As soon as the little girl could move
about, . pcncil was her greatest Joy, 20
that even at the ago Of i've or six she
busted herself in making pictures"
r. l. Farjeon. the popular novelist
was once q newspaper man In New Zea-
land. where he was the proprietor OF .
small newspaper. A friendly letter
from Dickens turned him In the direc-
tion OF novcl-writing. He Is married to
q daughter of Joe Jefferson, the actor.
and one of his young boys has caught
the gait and mannerisms OF Rip Van
Wrinkle from seeing his grandfather
play the character. and is able to pre-
sent a good imitation Of tho original.
Whenever Gladstone gets down to
garden truck and talks simple things to
simple people tho Conservative press
has fun with him. Lately he talked to
the folk about Hawarden about poultry.
eggs fruit and tame rabbits. and
showed them there WAS profit In their
cultivation. Awhile ago no had some
thing to say about jam and fruit pre-
serving in general. whereupon sthe
quantity Of strawberries brought into
Covent Garden this season shows IN in
crease.
The Critic says that . scholarly
Philadelphia journalist writes to 1t to
say: would it not be interesting to
find il any one writes Newman? He Is
undcniably the first stylist Of tho cent
ury, but I never meet any ono who
reads him. and do not believe there Is
an author of his rank 30 little read In
the libraries" Whether Newman IS
read by journalists. or widely read by
any class, We can not say. but that he Is
deeply read by those qualified to appre-
ciate him We know TO be true among
our own circle Of ACQUAINTANCE, and su3.
spect to be the case generally.