Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-01-16
PERSONAL Aplo iMPERsoNAL.

-Mrs Hetty Green is said to be the
wealthiest womas in the United States,
with q fortune of1orty million dollars.
Miss Elizabeth Garrett comes next.
with an estate worth twenty million
dollars
REV. Henry =. Allen, of Boston,
rector of the chugsh Of the Messiah. is
a member OF se)king society and does
a little embfoidBr1.s the Post says,
which may not Bve high CONNER
cial value, but isyestcemed by his fair
parishioners for antimental reasons.
The issuing dGeards OF thanks is so
common in Addison, Kan, that a
woman there Thought It was proper to
send to a local newspaper q card in
which she thanked her kind friends for
the valuable assistance they had rem
dered in helping her to secure di-
rorcc from her haDband
1T may be necessary for young peo-
pie inclined to tTle kissing act to under
go a sanitary examination. A young
lady in New jersey town went home
from Brooklyn the other day and kissed
forty of her friends, giving them all the
diphtheria. Still there will probably
always be those who will take such
chances
Eddie Gould is the tallest of all the
Gould family. He is of slender physique
and fonder of the enjoyments of life
than George is, though not given to dis
sipation. He is the most popular men,
ber of the family in its outside rela-
tions, and those who know him well
think that when he grows older he will
display some of his fathers genius in
financial audacity.
"A few nights ago Tenville, Ga. I.
young man called on young lady of
that place, and, - the young lady did
not care much about him, she had not a
great deal to say, but rested her head
on her hand and listened to her youth
full callers discourse until late hour.
Finally she became drowsy, and the
next morning she;and her caller were
found hard and fast asleep in their re-
spective chairs.
"A big, red whiskered Irishman pre-
emptcd an island near Minneapolis,
Mimi, built a shanty, and defied any
body to remove him. He was known
as the king Of Boom island, and he
gained considerable notoriety by his
venture. He slept in the shanty at
night and hired . small boy to watch
the claim during the day, but in the
course of time the loneliness became
oppressive, and he has resigned the
claim and deserted the shanty.
"A young man jim Auburn, Me-, who
applied to the city clerk for a marriage
license, gave his ege as twenty years,
and was informed that on account OF
his youthfulness he would have to Sc.
cure his parents written consent before
a certificate coulG he issned---ue went
out, and soon returned with brief but
pointed document: This is to certify
that my son, John -, has my consent
to marry Ann - or any other woman.
He is young in years, but old in devil
ment."
When Lillian Russell sang in Lon
don she observed that a certain box
was always occupied by a certain
woman, who eyed her with a problem
attic expression. Soon rare gifts We're
showered upon her. The mystery was
explained one night when, on leaving
the stage door Miss Russell found her
self clasped in the embrace of an indi-
vidual who proclaimed herself as long
lost mother AS Mrs. Leonard, the
mother of Miss Russell, was in New
York at the time. the new relationship
was not acknowledged