Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-04-30
PERSONAL AND lMPERsoNAL.

There is . man living in Calhoun,
Ga, seventy yenrs old, who boasts that
he never wore pair Of boots, bought q
suit of clothes, white shirt or any store
clothes in his life, or wore collar OF
t1ecl<tie. ,.
-Gertrude Echine. n pretty girl OF
eighteen years who lives in town in
Aroostook county, Maine, has neTel
been known to laugh or even to smile.
While intelligent in other matters, she
apparently cannot understand joke,
and II unmovcd by the keenest witt.
ci5ms:
-rhe duke Of Connaught Is the frs,
royal dtilis 10 bec6ine d director In q
dividend-paying conpaty. 1t IS tine
Church School company QirniteAl, and
although it's business is semi-philan-
thropic; II declares dividends, and the
duke Of toaDaWshts election was held
up by the dean of ST. tabl's, who IL
also a director, as promise of larger
dividends and further subscriptions.
An English newsps1er says that .
when one Of the heavy weights sS*nns
11ble height-by the rope. He lost his
grip and feil III. III. head on the stone
floor of the belfry. He arose dtld walked
home. The man had been an epileptic,
suffering frequent attacks, but since the
tBl, vi tie belfry he has not had any at
tack of epilepsy.
Clara Louise Kellogg tells story
in which her mother, herself and the
dowager duchess of Somerset figure.
the singer and her mother were dining
tli..x IL %13S
calmly poured iier ted irltd Her saucer,
slipped it with great enjoyment: ana re-
marked: "Now, ladies, do not think this
queen, and I saw her do it. Let us
eiHniats ths dueeH: WheteupoH they
all drank their tea froHi tbsir ssi'cevs:
The late Mr.. Spnrgeon visited Nor.
wood cemetery on one occasion with Mr..
McMaster. who went to choose a spot
for a family vault. Mr.. Spurgeon sug-
gested site, but Mr.: Mctiaster object.
cd that it was too proliliilsilt: f!So;"
Mr.. Spurgeon said, ''it will just do fo'
you." The spot was agreed upon, and
superintendent of the cemetery, said:
you could put Spurgeoil s6itie 5af7' 4
CoIhC Was pOIAGSu ouC hhu 'puk-
geon said: "That viii do
Cheshire owns the stupidest man in
tile Kingdom. He Is d farm hand, and
was engaged to plough ten-acrc field.
Wishing him to make n straight furrow,
his employer directed his attention to
COW graziils Fight opposite, telling him
to drive directly toward the COW: tie
started his horses, and his employers
attention was drawn to something else;
but in a short time, on looking round.
he found that the COW had left her
place, while the seEacious p1owmati
was following her. drawing zigzag
fnrrow all over the fcld.-English Farm
and Hoirc.
According to foreign papers, the queen
of England receives 1895, 900 annually
from the British treasury; the empress
Frederick of Germany. her eldest daugh-
ter, $40, 900: the prince of Wales. $780,
600; the princess of Wales, 1000: the
duke of Edinburgh. -s125, 900; Princess
Christian, $4,000 Princess Louise, ths
of Lornc, $4,000: the
duke of Connaught. Sl25, 900: the duch-
ess of Albany, $4,000; the Princess
Henry of Battenburg. $4,000; the chill
drcn Of the prince of Wales. slsO,OO0:
the duchess of Mecklenberg-Strelit Of
the Cambridge line, $4,000: the duke
of Cambridge, 900; and the princess
of Teck, S25, 200.