Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-07-25
PERSONAL AND ,MPERsoNAL


Charles Fechter left the jewelry
worn by him as Hamlet to Lester Wal.
lack. Wallacl left it to Nine. Ponisi,
and she in turn has given it to Freder-
ick Paulding:
brigham Young's grave iscovered
by a plain and inconspicuous slab OF
granite. 1t lies in an inclosed city lot
in Salt Lake city, surrounded by low
iron fence. A few of the prophets
wives are buried near.
The privilege of examining the
tongues and feeling the pulse OF the
royal family of Siam has been assigned
to DR.. w. r. Lee, a young physician
from this country, who was sent out by
by the Presbyterian board of foreign
missions.
MIR. Grover Cleveland is perhaps less,
of club man than almost any other
New Yorker of equal prominence. He
is a member of the Manhattan, Demo
cratic and Reform clubs, to be sure, but
rarely visits any of them except on the
occasion of dinner party to which he
has been invited
"A new safety match has been pat
ented in England by a Belgian, who
places on different parts of the same
match two compositions, which. in Or
binary safety matches, are generally
placed respectively on the box and on
the end of the match. In obtaining
light the match is broken across the
middle and the ends rubbed together.
The queen of Spain's reason for re-
tarding the completion of the palac
which is being built at San Sebastian
has at last been divulged. The palace
is built privately by the queen, and it is
in order to prevent overdrawing her
banking account that she has deter
mined to have the building finished only
in the course of next year, when she is
able to pay the architects
-''When I was a lad" says Mr.. La
bouchere, women took for time to
wearing short, red pctticoats, with a
skirt over them, which they could by
| means of string draw up above the
petticoat, and they wore balmoral
! boots coming half way up the calf
| This was the most becoming and prac-
/ tical dress that have seen worn dur
! ing my sojourn on this globe"
| Mrs. William Nissan Vanderbilt is
| undeniably handsome. Her height is a
| little bove medium, and she has a full
rounded figure with perfectly nodded
arms and shoulders. Her eyes are
; large, dark gray, ana the whlte has
trifle heavy. Her nose is short and
straight, and her complexion creamy
white, while her hair is dark brown.
She always dresses in the best taste.
-Ex-Gov. Ames, of Massachusetts,
was once asked to pay physician one
thousand dollars for services, which the
wealthy patient did not consider worth
that m ',ch But as his medical adviser
would not reduce the bill one cent, TIVE
checks for five hundred dollars eaci
were. sent in payment, one distinctl,
stating that it was for professional at
tendance and the other for eXtortion.
The doctor framed the latter check
and has it in view in his Office to-day.
The influence or example of womel
is making itself felt in a new wa,
among the actors They are having
themselves made to appear as young a
possible in their Autographs and post
ers. Stuart Robson's portrait is that o
a lad Of eighteen, and De Wolf Hoppe
looks even younger in his newest pict
urcs-a mere boy, in fact The womei
of the stage learned this stroke of busi
ness years ago, and had themsclve
portrayed at never less than ten year
under their actual age; but until a yea
ago the men of the profession wer
pictured as they really looked.