Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-02-13
A. uRDAY FEBRunY
PERSONAL AND IMPERs0sAL

Princess Victoria Mary Of Teclx, the
betrothed Of the late Prince collars and
Cuffs" is q good musician and vocalist.
She is the best looking young woman
in the British royal family and is twcn-
ty.tyyo years old
"A Brazilian senator has proposed
that the legislature of the new repub-
lie dispense with the services of the
shorthand reporters and use Edison's
photograph to record and report the
, speeches Of the members.
Mrs Ann Walter Thomas, an En-
glish lady otherwise noted as q linguist,
has the credit of being the best Welsh
scholar living. The uninitiated who
have seen a sentence or two of that
language in print will not be disposed
to limit the credit : ~
The interesting fact has leaked ont
that within the space of five years A.
J. Drexel and other members Of the
family have given away over S., 600. 600
for charitable purposes. The Drexels
seem to have an abiding sense Of the
responsibility the possession OF wealth
conveys.
james f. Cooper, tho old circus
man who died in Philadelphia a few
days ago, left fortune of 81, 600. 600
earned in the business. It was Mr..
Cooper who in 1865 engaged Dan Rice,
the famous clown, at salary of 81, ZOO
a week and all his expenses, that being
the largest salary ever paid to any
single performer
The divorce contagion has reached
Kaffirland. Not long ago chief in
voked the assistance of the law to en-
able him to dispense with wife on the
following complaints: ''Wife talk too
much with neighbors; too much paint
face and eyebrows; too much s1ore In
sleep; too much loss, and too much no
good" Aud yet the Kaf6r cannot ac-
quire the graces OF civilization.
-Bartholdi, the sculptor. is said to
be greatly troubled over the threatened
loss of his house, on account of the new
Boulevard Raspail, which in order to
run from the Boulevard St German to
the observatory, must go directly
through the residence in which the
greater part of the sculptor's worlkshas
been done. Bartholdi has begged the
municipal council to have this change
postponed until he has completed the
work upon which he is now engaged.
The sale by Nine. Judic at public
auction of all her valuable possessions,
composing jewels, pictures, tapestries
aud silverware,. brings out the fact that
this most popular prima donna of
French opera bouffe has lost nearly all
her powers of attraction. Her inimita-
BILE dictioa remains. but her voice,
beauty and grace have all departed.
Her figure has become uuwieldy be-
Ger arms are painfully thin 1t is some
years since she appeared on the Paris
ian stage.
"A Central American newspaper
tells Of man living in San Paulo,
Brazil, who is considerably over hun
dred years old and who is growing
young again. He has recently grown
a new set of teeth aad his hair, which
had turned gray, is now almost black
again. He is in active business as a
horse trader and occasionally he rides
over ten leagues in 4 day. He has been
married three times. is now a widower
and is quite wealthy. The paper casu-
ally remarks in the course of its story
that the old man suffered greatly at
one time with tumor, but this was
cured by being gore1 by an OK"