St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-04-23
PERSONAL AND IMPERs0NAL.

PERSONAL AND lMPERSONA6
An Atchison county (Kan-) farmer
assisted . woman financially In getting
. divorce with the intention Of marry.
ing her himself. But she married the
farm hand and the farmer has been in
formed by lawyer that he cannot re-
cover his money. =
Last year there were twenty three
surviving widows OF revolutionary sol
diers, and several OF these have since
died The oldest OF those now alive
are Nancy Raines, Of Carter Furnace.
Tenn. aged 100. and Ann Maria Young.
Of Easton. Pa, who i "a her l0lst year.
"A C Courtney, Of Clay county. Mo.
says his wife has spun more thread.
woven more yards Of cloth. dropped
more corn, piled more hazel brush and
burnt it. bound moro bundles Of grain.
loaded moro wagons with the Same.
and sat moro babies on board while
ont 1t work than any woman now liv-
ing ON earth.
Capt J. Walt Wilson. Of New York
city. is one of the two surviving officers
Of Kaine's pioneer Arctic expedition.
He lost one too as . result Of the privar
tions he underwent. aod had IN attack
Of scurvy, but suffered NO other in
juries. lie is said to be . well-pre-
served gentleman. delighting in remin-
isences of the expedition
The progress Of death was uniquely
reported by the dying DR.. Rishet TO his
son. professor OF physiology. and his
physician. As his end approached he
carefully described - them every per-
ceptible sensation. At the moment
when they observed unmistaksble
signs Of immediate dissolution he sur
prised them by saying: "You zee ! am
dying"
"A telegram was sent from Chicago
to . St Paul man announcing the death
OF his brother. The telegram was
never received. and the sorrowing SUR
vivor therefore sues the Western Union
Co. for 81 900 damages. ss . salve for
his lacerated feelings. because. - he
asserts in his complaint he WAS de-
prived of the satisfaction and pleasure
of seeing his said brother and being
present ut the funeral"
Alice Fletcher. whose name Is 90
prominently connected with the world's
fair and the Indian question. Is one OF
the few wome1 who have met the red
man On his native heath and lived the
life of . child Of the forest Miss
Fletcher slept in tepecs. ats her dinner
out of one dish with the rest Of the
family, dressed in skins aud studied
the Indian problem SO thoroughly un-
der these conditions that she solved IL
and is only waiting for the public TO
adopt her solution.
One Of the charges brought against
his wife BY . man in Beaver, Pa, in .
suit for divorce. was her rude and nm
iadylik way of serving him with fried
eggs On Sunday morning. while she
was preparing breakfast. and he was
getting ready for church, they had
some verbal disagreement, and she em-
phasized her remarks by throwing .
dish of fried eggs ut him. This treat
ment made him hopping mad. and his
comments upon her cdnduct % angered
her that she avowed her determination
to hereafter let him have them raw in
the she'll
Two negroes have attained to
iudycships in British colonies. One,
Jose ph Benner MAXWELL. is chief judi
cial officer at the Gambia. in Africa.
and oddly enough hs has written .
work upon the negro question in which
he speaks with apparent horror Of the
most striking outward peculiarities OF
his race, and urges as the only method
Of elevating the negro Of the future
miscegenation with other races The
other negro is Judge Sir w. c. Reeves.
chief justice Of Barbados, In the Brit
ish West Indies He presides over the
supreme court. and there are in the isle
and seven police magistrates OF subor-
dinate Jurisdiction