St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-09-03
eeesoNAL AND iMPERsoNAL

|. PERSONAL AND iMPERsoNAL
"A Kansas woman declares that she
will not die until Kansas women have
full suffrage.
The Crows Nest. at Buttermilk
Bay, where Joseph jefferson rusticates,
has had its apartments adorned with
GO, 900 or $1,000 worth of pictures.
brought down from New York by tho
actor.
"A citizen of New Castle. Pa, has six
trained toadA The reptiles have been
taught to march or hop in squads to
catch reaches. One has been trained to
climb ladder, while another turns the
crank Of a small churn.
--Vice-Prcsident Morton's daughters
have an active share in church work at
Rhinebeck. They conduct = sewing
schnol for poor children Saturday morn
ings and little Sunday-school twenty
four hours later in Q room in Mr.. Nor
toms House.
"A Wilmington man carries In his
vest pocket q piece Of skin that was
taken from . mans neck and then
tanned. He-the Wilmington man, not
the other man-claims that the posses
sion of that piece Of tannedskin will keep
him from slipping on the ice.
The paradise for travelling agents Is
said to have been discovered at Bremen,
Me-, where one Of the craft says the
people invited him to stay to dinner OF
supper, helped him along on his way,
showed him their flower gardens, and
bought his goods almost faster than
he could supply them, even stopping
him in the road to make purchases, and
inviting him to call again.
The wife of Secretary Elkins has
founded and endowed home for poor
children at Deer Park. Md, having be
come deeply impressed with the need Of
such an institution. Her sympathiea
had been deeply stirred by various cases
requiring surgical aid in the neighbor-
hood of her residence. One little boy
she sent 70 . Baltimore hospital for
treatment and paid his expenses for
two years.
Justice Lamar may frequently be
seen at the market in Washington in
the early morning buying for his house
hold. He is always accompanied by
body servant carrying basket. Judge
Lamar is said to have grown visibly
older during the last year. His hair,
once long and black, Is now almost
white and is worn closely cropped,
while his face has lost It's swsrthiness
and acquired a pallor.
The composer Verdi. when asked q
few weeks ago IL he would add to his
renown by composing other operas,
said: II will not deny that feel able 70
write another opera or two. because my
imagination is not yet dead; but there
is one miserable hindrance-the phys
ical fatigue of writing, of filling an in
terminsble forest Of leaves of music, all
the millions of notes and signs which
compose q score-that's what frightens
me-"
Emperor William intends to pay q
private. visit to England ut the end OF
July. HIS majesty will 60 direct to
COwes in his yacht the Hohenzollern,
and is to stay there during the squadron
regatta week. The emperor will be
entertained by the queen at Osborne
during his visit His majesty intend
TO enter his racing yacht, the Meteos
DIETER known - the Thistle), for tha
queens cup. 4
Prof. Fiske il anxious to have IL IN
derstood that he does not accept Prot
Horsford's conclusions regarding tn
Mortimer in America The former
gentleman thinks these pioneers did no(
establish themselves at all in this co11r
try, and that their temporary abid1no
place was indefinitely ''somewhere -
tween Cape Breton and Point Judith.
while the latter believes that . colony
was founded on the present site Of
Cambridge, Mass, and lasted three cen
turtles