St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-11-07
PERSONAL AND lMPERsoMAl

Mrs Campbell, the wife Of Ohio's
governor. II tall, Handsome brunette
and is credited with much tact
"A hired girl In Maine invariably
puts q pin in her mouth when she Is
going to peel onions She says that II
prevents her eyes from watering.
-Ex-Secretary Bayard b growing
fat. His face has become Get In severe
lines, and his hair has whitened rapidly
since death robbed him of his wife and
his favorite daughter.
Rev Phillips Brooks b said 70 Be
the fastest speaker in the world Yer.
batim reporters who timed him found
that he speaks on IN average two hum
dred and twelve words minute. Stam-
ncring in his youth is accountable for
his remarkable haste in speech
Mrs Josie Armstrong died In Chi
cago recently 1t tho age Of ITO years
Mrs Armstrong is said to be the colored
woman who nursed Abraham Lincoln's 3
wife and it Is alleged her son played
with "liitle Abe" before the latter had
learned the art Of splitting rails
Philip George d'Epinois i perhaps
the most remarkable Waterloo survivor.
lie was born inl79a. and still discharges
the duties Of burgomaster in his native
village of Epinois les Binche. The
Chcvalier d'Epiuois was one Of the civic
guards who welcomed Leopold I. to
Belgium sixty years ago os
AT Wichita, Kan. two brothers
who had been separnted for twelve
years met in the county Jail Both
were going under iassumed names, but
enc day while comparing notes they,
found that they were from the same
town in Pennsylvania Ono Of them
finally told his own name. snd the
other at once recognized him q .
brother. .-...--
"A young woman at Cincinnati
thought she would commit suicide and
gave friend some money to defray her
funeral charges. She changed her mind
about the suicide and then demanded
her money back. The friend declined
to refund and insisted in keeping the
money for the purpose intended. but
the court has decided that she must
give It mp. ......... rs
Xavier Jouvin, the once famous
glove-malzer of Grenoble. France. has
been honored by a statue in his native
town He invented machine for cut
ting out leather gloves, and perfected .
method by which only ono seam was
necessary in the thumb At the Maison
Jouvin thousands Of men and women
are now employed NJ Jouvin's widow
has recently died at Grenoble.
"A young man in Berlin, Germany.
stepped upon . cherry. slipped, fell
against a window and had his nose al
most severed from his face. A young
lady came forward and acknowledged
that she had carelessly thrown the aeces-
sorial fruit upon the sidewalk; and her
parents promptly betrayed tho bill Of
the surgeon who stitched on the young
mans nose, amounting to four hundred
and fifty marks.
MIR. Humphrey Moore. . well known
artist in Paris. is . deaf mute. but 90
bright and cordial il his manner that
one scarcely realizes tho terrible If
Fiction which Is his inheritance. His
wife is beautiful, intelligent Spanish
girl who interprets conversation 70 her
husband, and keeps him in touch with
the social life Of the city. Mr.. Moore's
speciality Is japanese scenery and life.
which he reproduces with charming
fidelity to nature. He has exhibited at
the Royal academy Of London, the In
tcrnational fine arts exhibition Of Ber.
lin and the Paris salon. q