Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-01-09
PERSONAL AND IaAPERsosAI

PERSONAL
in Mississippi lawyer hes bssn
sentenced to six years imprisonmene
for swindling negro women out oe
pension money.
Two Germans in MuehlhAussen mao
slept in the same bed for twenty yesra
They were each seventy years old
Last week they quarreIed and one
killed the other and then drowned HIM
self
1t is said in london that the lsto
Lord Lytton was q dev oted spiritualtsts
that he believed he had communics-
tions with Joan of Arc, Bslzac sud
Napoleon, and that he complained thaS
he was always baffled in trying to have
access to the spirit OF his father.
-Henry T. Oxnard. who IL doing 20
much to esta blish tho beet sugar In
dustry in Nebraska. whero he has
erected very extensive refnerics, ID .
young man of thirty, eight years out Of
college. He is littlc man physically,
but full of the vim and vigor that win
success.
Baron Struve, who has represented
the Russian government at Washington
for nearly ten years. Is an accomplished
and able man of sixty-five, who has
become a great favorite at our capital
He comes of a distinguished family.
and previous to his appointment In this
country held government positions In
Turkestan and in japan. He Is dis
tinguished scholar, and speaks several
Oriental tongues, as well as French
and English.
Joseph jefferson said: ut was
generally supposed that four years in
Australia had enabled me to return
home a millionaire. Quite a mistake.
assure you Not poor, certainly, but
not rich; just in the condition that Is
most desirable for all: Neither too
poor nor too rich, with something to
give on security in case of accident,
income. Less than this may be incon-
venient at times; more than this is .
nuisance"
"A verdant Pennsylvanian has been
duped out of So, 500 by sharpers, who
sold him two bars of nearly worthless
metal for gold. He deserved his fate.
however, for he thought he was driving
a sharp bargain with an ignorant In
dian, and was told by an alleged officer
of the mint that the bars were worth
s.. 900. So he gave ''Poor Lo" $500
and took his purchase to the mint.
where his eyes were opened to the fact
that he had been duped and not the
poor Indian.
"A Philadelphia man who possessed
a solitary SIS bill and wanted to blow it
in badly. hit upon a novel plan the
other day by which to spend and save
it both. The bill was given to him by
a friend, and he was determined not to
| part with it. After a lengthy debate
| with himself, he evolved the brilliant
scheme of pawning the note. He paid
a visit to his uncle, raised s462 on the
bill and spent it according to his tastes.
When further funds came in he re-
| deemed the original.
Mr.. Seton-Kerr, who has passed
some summers exploring in Alaska and
the Selkirk ranges of Canada, has this
season set out for Central Africa He
| writes home from one of his camps on
the way to Lake Tanganyika that some
| people told him in England that it
would require at least $25, 900 to fit out
| a pleasure expedition to Lake Tangan-
yika- He says he would undertake to
go from England to the Central Afri-
can lake and back for $1,000. and that
| the expense could be still further re-
duced if there were more than one
white man in the party to share the