Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-11-28
PERSONAL AND iMPERsoNAL

"A ninety-three-year-old man In
Mystic, Conn, has been climbing into
his apple trees and gathering the fruit
rs though he were only twenty.
I'm Mississippi recently three inter-
esting events happened on one evening
in family: An old lady and her hus-
band celebrated their golden wedding.
a daughter and son-in-law their silver
wedding and granddaughter her
wedding.
"A recent visitor to the tombs OF
Presidents Monroe and Tyler, in Holly
wood cemetery, Richmond. Va. says
that the grave of Tyler II unmarked by
stone or monument and that he could
find no inscription of any kind on the
small chapel-lilke structure over the re-
mains Of Monroe.
Tho czar of Russia says that rather
than not see his pet scheme. the Trans
Siberian railroad completed in three
years from lack of .funds he would adj
vance the needed money-Sl7, 500, 0OO-
out Of his private purse. He can do it;
he has, it is said, $50, 600, 600 alvsys In
bank in ready money.
On the grave of the late Mr.. w. H.
Gladstone, son of the premier, has
been erected a plain white marble
CROSS WIN CuEeC OdScS, O0Ot lug SAS AA-
scription: 'Thou wilt keep him in per-
feet peace. whose mind is stayed on
Thee. William Henry Gladstone; born
June 3, 1910; passed away July 6, 1891"
The duke OF Cumberland, eldest
son of the last king of Hanover, is the
possessor of no less than nine tons OF
gold and silver plate, while the plate Of
the house of Orange at The Hague, in
GLIDING two thousand solid silver dili-
ner plates, has an estimated value OF
So, 500, 900. The plate used by Queen
Victoria during the visit of the emperor
of Germany is said to bo worth Sl0.-
900, 900.
The GOODNESS Of the Austrian cnl-
peror the other day, when he heard OK
the dynamite outrage, in saying: IF q
bridge be blown up we shall have to
get out and walk reminds the Pail
Mall Gazette of Sir Thomas More's
sang froid when his head was on the
block. AS the fatal stroke was about
to fall he signed for moments delay
while he moved aside his beard. pity
that should be cut" he murmured,
shat has not committed treason"
Frau Clara Ruge has just finished
in New York city a characteristic por-
trait of Christobel Rojas, the young
South American artist whose romantic
career has touched SO many hearts
His picture Of the ''Purgatorio" re-
ceived the gold medal from the Paris
Salon. He had gone home to
Venezuela to die, and on the heights OF
the mountain near Caracas he met the
SON of the distinguished German
| patriot Arnold Ruge, who with his
| artistic wife often went sketching amid
| the beautiful scenery.
| There's many a slip" etc. An
| Albina (Oregon) man, we'll along in
years, visited a Portland justice the
| other day with young girl of about
sixteen, and wanted the justice to
| draw up deed for two lots, for which
he was to receive $500; the justice
was to deliver the deed. receive tho
cash and divide it between the old gen
tle,uaa and the young girl, after she
had become the formers wife. The
deed was prepared, ready for the old
mans signature, when the justice
asked for his fee. That broke the bar
gain all up. The old man walked out,
leaving the bride-elect, who in turn
| went her different way homeward.