The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-09-23
PERSONAL AND IMpERsoNAL.
Mrs. Campbell, the wife of Ohio's
governor, is tall, handsome brunette,
=. A. H.

Mrs. Campbell, the wife of Ohio's
governor, is tall, handsome brunette,
and is credited with much tact.
"A hired girl in Maine invariably
puts a pin in her mouth when she is
going to peel onions. She says that it
prevents her eyes from watering.
--Ex-Secretary Bayard is growing
fat His face has become set in severe
lines, and his hair has whitened rapidly
since death robbed him of his wife and
his favorite daughter
Rev. Phillips Brooks is said to be
the fastest speaker in the world. Yer
batim reporters who timed him found
that he speaks on an average two hun
dred and twelve words minute. Stam-
mering in his youth is accountable for
his remarkable haste in speech.
Mrs. Josie Armstrong died in Chi
cago recently at the age of 10 years
Mrs. Armstrong is said to be the colored
woman who nursed Abraham Lincoln's
wife and it is alleged her son played
with "liltle Abe" before the latter had
learned the art of splitting rails.
Philip George d'Epinois is perhaps
the most remarkable Waterloo survivor.
He was born in 1904, and still discharges
the duties of burgomaster in his native
village of Epinois les Binche. The
Chevalier d'Epinois was one of the civic
guards who welcomed Leopold l. to
Belgium sixty years ago.
AT Wichita, Kan, two brothers
who had been separated for twelve
years met in the county Jail. Both
were going under assumed names, but
one day while comparing notes they
found that they were from the same
town in Pennsylvania. One of them
finally told his own name, and the
other at once recognized him as q
brother.
"A young woman at Cincinnati
thought she would commit suicide and
gave friend some money to defray hel
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. bu
the court has decided that she mus
give it up.
| -Xavicr Jouvin, the once famous
glove-maker of Grenoble, France, ha
been honored by statue in his nativ,
town. He invented machine for cut
ting out leather gloves, and perfected ;
method by which only one seam wa
necessary in the thumb. At the Maisol
Jouvin thousands of men and wome,
are now employed. NJ. Jouvin's widow
has recently died at Grenoble.
A young man in Berlin, Germany
stepped upon a cherry, slipped, fel
against window and had his nose al
most severed from his face. A youn,
lady came forward and acknowledged
thatshe had carelessly thrown the acces
serial fruit upon the sidewalk; and he
parents promptly betrayed the bill o
the surgeon who stitched on the young
mans nose, amounting to four hundre,
and fifty marks.
Mr.. Humphrey Moore, well know
artist in Paris, is deaf mute, but S
bright and cordial is his manner tina
!. one scarcely realizes the terrible al
Fiction which is his inheritance. Hi
wife is beautiful, intelligent Spanis
girl who interprets conversation to he
husband, and keeps him in touch wit
the social life of the city. Mr.. Moore
speciality is Japanese scenery and life
which he reproduces with charmin,
fidelity to nature. He has exhibited a
the Royal academy OF London, the In
ternational fine arts exhibition of Bel
lin and the Paris salon.