Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-14
PERSONAL. AND IMPERsONAL.

Henry H., of England, is represent.
ed as wearing green boots, his spurs
fastened with red leather straps, black
leather gloves, with outside jewels on
each finger and star of gems on the
back of each glove.
An unfortunate man gained access
to rich nobleman. He depicted his
misfortunes and his misery in so NOV
ing manner that the noble lord, with
tears in his eyes and his voice cholSed
with sobs, called to the servant: John,
put this poor fellow out into the street;
he is breaking my heart"
An ingenious youngster, very much
the product of the century, has been
airing in public his doubts that this is
really the year 1892. His theory is that
in the dark ages nobody paid particular
attention to chronology, and that years
and even centuries, may have been al
lowed to pass as mere unconsidered
trifes.
The French minister OF public in
struction has decided to preserve the
home of Joan of Are in Domremi as a
| museum in which to illustrate her his
| tory. 1t will contain models of the va
rious statues raised to her memory
copies of the paintings showing various
scenes in her life and the pictures of
her which are in the Pantheon.
DIR ]. p Mum for several years
received 1000 a year to act as Jay
Gould's exclusive physician. This is
probably the largest annual fee for ex-
elusive attention ever earned by an
American practitioner. Dr. Mum was
already very wealthy man, having a
fortune Of 81, 900, 900 of his own. Be-
sides, he married a lady who had inher-
tied something over So, 900, 900.
Bishop Leonard tells a good story
on himslf He was teaching a Sunday
school in Utah, and asked little girl if
she knew who Christ was. She replied:
20, yes, sir; he was man" Fearing
that she might have an impression that
Christ was more human than divine,
Bishop Leonard asked.her what kind Of
man he was and if Christ was any
thing like himself. so, no." she re-
piled, che was good man."
--Renan died so poor that his widow
will sell his library early in the year in
order to tide over the period of waiting
for government pension, which par
lament is pretty sure to grant her. A
Paris correspondent estimates Remains
income as never amounting to more
than about three thousand dollars a
year. The great Frenchman had dis
dain for money, caring only for enough
to pursue his studies in some ease and
comfort.
One day, when Jenny Lind-she
had long been Nine. oldschmidt-was
staying with a relative not far from
Peterborough, she attended service in
the cathedral. The dean, who thought
the singing very perfect, wa. rash
enough to ask Nine Goldschmidt how
she liked his choir. She looked at him
with quiet smile, and replied, with an
emphasis that could not be mistaken
''Oh, Mr.. Dean, your cathedral is in
deed most beautiful
In course of conversation relative
to the death of Lord Tennyson. DIR.
Oliver Wendell Holmes said: There
were four. great men in the lives of
whom / felt / had a certain relation
ship. They were Darwin, Gladstone,
Tennyson and Lincoln-men who made
the year 1909 conspicuous, and / was so
unblushing as to creep into that year,
too. Gladstone only remains. He is
just my age. Tennyson was also nearly
the same age. He was born on the 4th
of August and / on the goth of the same
month. We are so nearly contempor-
aneous that do not want to speak of
him. I do not feel that can say any,
thing"