The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-23
pERsoNAL ANn LIrEaARY.


@Tehhysoh's MAUD Is a. very com.
plete story, told with flying hints and
musical echoes, as though Ariel had
piped it In the little wild islando f THE
Tempest. n@James Sfhetham.
There are some advantages In be-
Ing a queen. Notice the presents which
the queen of Denmark received at her
last birthday. They included d tortoise
shell fan studded with diamonds, some
superb black lace studded with dia-
monds,a rug of cloth-of-gold and an an
tique porcelain watch.
Dolly Adams, wife of the second
president of the United States, is ac-
credited with the honor Of preparing
the first ice cream ever used in this
country. The occasion was a festivity
that followed the inauguration of
Washington as president in the city of
New York, in the year 1888. The name
of Dolly Adams should be held in esteem
by all American young ladies.
The mOstnoted member of the Creek
nation is Gen. Porter, of Muscogee, 1. T.,
who has represented his people asagent
at the national capital for many years.
He is a very picture of Indian manhood
and vigor, for he is tall, straight and
swarthy. His eye g~listens like an
eagles. His title of general arose from
the skill with which he put an end to
the three Creek instructions in 1872,
1879 and 1884.
"A rival to ''the beautiful whistler"
has appeared in Paris in the person of
/ Count InhT1 V.nn1sc1ryy - D,1Sp1 -oh1o-
man, who some years ago married the
daughter of Marshal Pelissier. His
whistled notes are of great richness and
feasibility, and of wonderful range. He
car whistle the most intricate and bril-
liant compositions, and initiate a canary,
a nightingale or thrush. The new whis-
tier has already met with great success
in the fashionable world at Vienna.
The Meridian club of New York is
one of the most social and informal of
the literary clubs of the city, and it is
considered an honor to be admitted to
its membership. Only thirty ladies en-
joy this honor, but the number present
at the monthly meetings is always aug
mented by invitations. Marion Har-
land, Mrs. Lyman Abbott, Mrs. Lillian
Belts, Mrs. Kate Epson Clarke, Mrs.
Margaret Sangster and Mrs. T. J. Back
us are among its prominent members.
in Paris as elsewhere the libraries
show that fully fifty per cent. of the
books loaned out are novels. Dumas
leads the list of popular authors, with
Eugene Sue second. BasSac is going
out of fashion, as is also George Sand.
OF contemporary authors lola is most
in demand, and second to him is Jules
Verne. Detective stories seem to have
had their day, Gaboriau land De Monte
pin now being comparatively neglected.
Poets are more read, in proportion to
novels, in France than in England, and
Victor Hugo is at the head of his class.
Mark Twain at home dresses very
plainly, al he thinks he can work better
if he ear working mems clothes. He
is always glad to receive visitors, and
invariably insists that they shall play
billiards with him. He has billiard and
pool tables in his residence, and is him
self an expert player. There are but
few who can beat him. He talks very
slowly, and drawls through his nose.
He shuffles when he walks, smokes a
clay pipe, and never laughs at his own
jokes. Mark Twain is worth a million,
which is quite a respectable sum for a
man to make with his pen. 1t is said
that he has a morbid, half-crazy fea1
that he will some day lose his fortune
and come to poverty. He says he il
now engaged with a book on which he
has been at work, off and on, for ovel
twenty years.