The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-09-03

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"A Kansas woman declares that shs
whit not die until Kansas women have
full suffrage.
THE Crowb Nest, at Buttermilk
Bay, where Joseph jefferson rusticates,
has had its apartments adorned with
$40, 900 or $4,000 worth of pictures,
brought down from New York by the
actor.
"A citizen Of New Castle, Pa, has six
trained toads. 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-President Morton's daughters
have an active share in church work at
Rh;nebeck. They conduct a sewing
sch ol for poor children Saturday morn
ines and little Sunday school twenty
four hours later in room in Mr.. Nor
tori's House.
"A Wilmington man carries in his
vest pocket piece of skin that was
taksan from a 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
child rem at Deer Park, Md, having be-
come deeply impressed with the need of
such an institution. Her sympathies
had been deeply stirred by various cases
requiring surgical aid in the neighbor-
hood Of her residence. One little boy
she sent to Baltimore hospital for
trea tment 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 q
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 Its swarthiness
and acquired pallor.
-Ehe composer Verdi, when asked q
few weeks ago if he would add to his
renown by composing other operas,
said: II will not deny that 1 feel able to
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 filing an in
terminable forest of leaves of music, all
the millions of notes and signs which
compose score-that's what frightens
me-"
Emperor William intends to pay q
private visit to England at the end Of
July. His majesty will go direct to
Cowes in his yacht, the Hohenzollern,
and is to stay there during tho squadron
regatta week. The emperor will be
entertained by the queen at Osborne
during his visit His majesty intends
to enter his racing yacht, the Meteor
DIETER known as the Thistle), for the
queens cup.
Prof. Fislxe is anxious to have 1t un-
derstood that he does not accept Prof
Horsfords conclusions regarding the
Mortimer in America The former
gentleman thinks these pioneers did not
establish themselves at all in this coun-
try, and that their temporary abiding
place was indefinitely somewhere be-
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