St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-12-26
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Annie Besant makes her name
rhyme with peasant but Walter Be-
SAINT pronounces his name. according 70
late Information. as Bessank.
The German empress has formed a
league for the preservation of good
habits among the Prussian ladies. The
members bind themselves to discourage
luxury, to wear simple dresses and to
practice economy in the household.
Albion w. Tou-gee. the novelist,
once spent six months in reading some
tremendous works on birds in order to
be accurate in one sentence which he
was writing about the note or warble
of some particular bird on the Hudson.
While in her retreat in Venice Car.
men Sylvia, the poet-queenl of Rouma-
mia, exhibited a great fondness for GID
ing about the narrow canals in her gon-
dola. She is tall. handsome and very
MISUNDERSTANDING woman. with .
pale face and rather cold eyes. - - t'
Andrew Lang, who tried his own
hand at versifying, uttcrs the truth
about poetry: ITO rhyme Is one thin9,i
to he poet quite another. a good deal
of modification would he avoided IL
young men and maidens only kept this
obvious fact well posted in front Of
their vanity and their ambition"
Patti has very elaborate precautions
against burglars in her Welsh castle.
Unless q certain level is raised il is inn
possible to open a window at night
without causing the ringing of in
Vulnerable bells in the cottages of the
gardeners and in the stable, while the
same current of electricity releases q
large dog from his kennel.
Canon Scott Holland tells this story
abOut Mr.. Ruskin and one of his pupils.
Said this eager disciple to his master:
"Ah, Mr.. Rusxin, the first moment
that entered the gallery at Florence
saw Mt once what you meant when
asserting the supremacy of Botticelli."
"Did you, in a moment!' remarked the
great teacher; '.it took me twenty
years to find out that"
-Tolstoi recently received . letter
from an American girl declaring that
her fortune of SaO0, 900 was twice as
large as she needed. and asking what
he would advise her to do, with the
surplus. At first he suggested that
she burn the money. bnt later. having
recognized the fact that this wonld
benefit only the government. he sent
another letter counseling his fair COR
to devote her surplus wealth
to charitable purposes.
DIR. c. c. Abbott, the welt known
began the study in which
he made his regulations when he was a
near Trenton. n. j. His farm
knoll overlooking the wide
lowlands along the Delawa1o, where
The Delaware Indians and Their pse1e-
ressors undoubtcdlYss1norted .f1Jke
numbers From the river bonkS odd
from the plowed fields he gat si6d some |
20. 900 relics in clay. boncAh6 itne. the |
product Of the aborigirat Mhs. ipce |
hunted. tished, canned, ap& 1DQ9G hc- |
tured their utetsilx thefe. 81
As Mr.. Kipline has SO 6lt6Q &kn |
described as a young man Of s1RtsHRI
manner afflicted with '.bies 6ea@3r uae
extract from = RosEnos Go0s3
ms report OF o meeting WITH nj is 7
agreeable: .'Mr. Kipliug's mannor in
reminds one stf1pGay Of |
lis style in writing-t there Is - cerfSfn4
tcrseness spnd lzumor nj
III that he says. Best Of all, however,.
s the entire freedom from conceit .aud-
'gotism. 1t is Of Rudyard Kipli6S the
nan, not of Rudyard Kipling the au-
nor, of whom you think as you talk
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