St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-07-30
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
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| -PressdsiN Nauexf ColAmh IL i
announced, has declared his intention
of being present at the ceremonies dedi-
, catory Of the Columbian exposition
huildines next October. Sir Julian
Paunccfote, British minister at WAX
ingtOu, will be present 10 represent
Great Britain. p - y
Mile. Paulina, . native Of Queens
! land. Holland, is said to be. the smallest
human being in the world. She is
nearly sixteen years Of age, her height
h eighteen inches and her weight seven
pounds Unlike most of the ..milgets. :"
she is remarkably pretty and accom-
plished. speaking -four langaages flu
emily. .z --..,.-.-t..,
M Goron. chief of the Paris detec-
tive force. wears . military mustache.
dresses fashionably. and il generally
seen with . burning cigar between his
fingers. NJ. Goron believes in sitting at
his desk and thinking out mysteries.
He wears his hair in what Il technical
ly If hippantiy called the Aoor-walkcy's
roach.
Don Jose Jesus Pico. q noted fig-
ure Of the. early days of California.
who was closely associated with The
"Psthfinder," died recently at San Luis
ObispO. He was once sentenced To
death by Cen Fremont for incitingan
anti-American riot, hat was pardoaed
and afterwsrd became Fremonts de-
voted friend and associate. 49,
"A Newspaper in the Arabic laneuaxe
was recently started in New York. eity.
which il the only one in existence out.
side of Asia and Africa. The type for
printing Kawkab America wasinported
from Syria, and the compositors ceme
from the same country. There are said
70 be ,!3S characters in the Arabic lam
eu.gs. One Page Of the paper is printed
in English. -,
One of the London newspapers re.
ferred to touching incident which.
Il said. markell the closing days Of
the American poet whittier" The 9TH
er newspapers informed their contem-
porary that the Quaker poets days
have not closed. and that an. Amerionn
newspaper just received eoptained .
new poem from his pen. The editor
had confoundcd Whittier with the late
Walt Whitman. ~
When Charlcs Dickens WAS editoref
the Daily News-his tenure WAS NO: for
long-he appointed his father, the
original Of wilkins Micawber, leader Of
the News parliamentary corps. In His
new volume on Faces and PlaceA- .Ay.
H. w. Lucy, . successful journalist and
says: 1.-THE old gentleman.
Of course. knew nothing aheut junrnsa-
ism; was snot even capable Of short
hand. Providcntially he was not re-
quircd to take notes. but gener lily 10
overlook things He filed the .oaase
even for shOst time after his son had
Inpetuously vacated the editorial chair"
1T has long been known that John
Strange Winter, who wrote .sBootl.S
Baby" and 50 many interesting a,d
laxhing novels of military life-in camp
md barrae><s-is not man. asrthe mas
:uline name and style would Indicate,
but woman, = clergyman's daughter,
born in York, England. In 1884 she
Mr.. St&nnard, . civil engineer.
She began her literary career by wsi1-
ng stories for the Family Herald under
he pseudonym Of Violet whyte. Tho
name Of John Strange WiA
er WAS adopted when Cavalry lLife'
'ppeared, her reason being that her
military sketches. II avowedly written
y . woman, might not obtain fair
LAY. Since Boobies Rsby" APPEARED
Ira StAnnard has written about Q
osen books. Of which the aggregate
ale in England has amounted TO CO.,.
60 copies p =.