The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-05-21
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.


lie Baroness Burdett- Coutts has
been conspicuous for setting the fash
lon among her country women against
the use OF birds aud bird plumage for
tho adornment of millinery, ETC., and
successfully promoting the manufac-
ture of artificial birds for the purpose,
new industry that gives employment
10 several hundred gir.s and women in
Paris.
Last June young man was ar
rested in Natick, Mass, because he
would not pay his poll tax, amounting
to two dollars, and he has been kept in
jail ever since at an expense to the tax
payers OF one dollar AMI seventy five
cents per week The town is losing
money on the transaction, but it is vim
dlcating an eternal principle with
great success.
Lord harrington, who is the new
duke of Devonshire, has sat in parlia-
ment since 1857, and has in that time
served his queen and country as sec
retary fer war, postmaster-general,
lord OF the admiralty, secretary for
Ireland, and secretary for India, but
his succession to the dukedom will
probably prevent his ever becoming
prime minister
Miss Stella Hoyle. of Troy, N. Y,
promptly arose in a crowded street car
recently and gave her seat to Grip
pied old gentleman who had entered.
He asked her name and address, and
she has just received from the grateful
recipient of her kindness diamond
necklace. Young lady passengers may
lind it worth while to act according to
Hoyle under like circumstances.
No uncertainty about this verdict,
coments the Peoria Herald. 1t is as
clear as mud and covers the ground
quite as well. Death by being found
dead in bed at 5 o'clock in the morn.
ing" is new cause of death. "We, the
jury, sworn to inquire of the cause of
the death OF ----, on oath do find
that she came to her death by being
found dead in her bed at o'clock in
the morning OF January Is, 1899; in her
bed at her residence, ---- street,
county of Peoria, state of Illinois;
cause of death unknown to this jury"
The late Cardinal Manning was a
tall, gaunt man, with vigorous frame
and large head that was almost COM
pletely bald. He was teetotaler, un-
like many of his predecessors, and ate
only enough to keep body and mind in
healthy condition. When he was
made cardinal, an influential member
of his flock said to him: II would like
to see your eminerco riding in some
thing better than that shabby old
brougham." "Ah!" replied the prelate,
with twinkle in his eye, ''when car
dinals went about in fine carriages,
they generally went to the devil"
1T was bright moonlight and three
a. M, and one of the toilers on a New
York morning newspaper (says the
Tribune) was on his way home to
Brooklyn. He had to cross by ferry,
and he was naturally anxious to catch
the boat. AS he rushed down the bridge
to the boat he suddenly perceived that
it was just starting, and was about five
feet from the slip. Determined to
catch it at all hazards, he shut hi, teeth
firmly and, running down the bridge,
he gave tremendous leap and landed
beyond the chains, amid the cheers and
laughter of the crowd. Turning to as
certain the cause of their mirth, he saw
that the boat was securely fastened in
the slip, and that what he had taken
for the space between the slip and boat
was only the shadow cast by the ferry
house in the bright moonlight