The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-10-07
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The vacancy in the Order of the
Garter caused by Lord Derby's death
is still untitled. This highly-valued
honor is said to lie between Lord Duff
ferin,and Lord Aberdeen.
Tim" Tierney, who began service
with the Burlington & Missouri rail-
road as a track-layer in 1856, has been
IN the employ of the company ever
since. He is now over eighty years
old, and is a 1agman at Denver. He
says that he might nave been president
OF the road by this time if he had had
little better education to begin with.
Mrs. Matilda Simpson. of Harris
burg. KY, who died recently, had
been known as the ''sad lady" for a
third OF a century, during which time
she had never been seen to smile. Her
husbands mysterious disappearance
had the effect OF changing her merry
disposition of young w~omanhood in the
twinkling of an eye. Her life was de-
voted to noble charities.
Mime. Rodriguez, a celebrated cout-
uriere OF Paris, who failed a year and
a half ago, has just died in a lunatic
asylum. She was tall, stout and bru-
tally frank, and absolutely declined to
dress any woman Of a poor figure. A
duchess OF rather meagre form, after
e~ndeavoring for a long time to get
dresses made by Rodriguez, received
the reply: Il will dress Nine. la
Duchesse when she has shoulders"
Mrs. Mary A. H. Lyman, widow of
Moses Lyman, of Litchfeld, Conn,
has presented to the American Invalid
society the property known as the
Onoro house, near Sanford. Fla, con-
sisting of eight acres of orang grove
land and an old mansion, valued at
several thousand dollars. Her only re-
striction is that it shall be used for
charitable or educational purposes, and
be known as the Moses Lyman home.
Mr.. Edward E. Aver, of Chicago,
owns the finest collection of works Of
Indian art and the most complete IL
brary on the native races of North
America of anyone in this country.
The Anthropological building at the
fair holds the better part of his collec-
ton for this summer, and the bead
work OF his plains Indians and the
graceful carved spoons of the north
west coast tribes arouse envy in the
hearts Of aesthetics and anthropologists.
Senator Perkins, of California, is a
self-made man. When he was a Young
ster in California, friendless, and with
only two dollars in his pocket. a Mr..
Knight, a merchant of Oroville, gave
him a situation as porter, where he
could earn regular wages, forty dollars
a month. When he had made a place
for himself in the business world he
sent for his old employer, who had in
the meantime met with misfortune, and
gave him a book-keeper's place in his
Office worth one hundred and seventy
five dollars a month.
The four daughters of Sir Julian
Pauncefote, the British ambassador,
are all attractive and accomplished.
The eldest sketches and paints, the
second is devoted to outdoor sports,
while music is the favorite study of the
other two girls. Their mother, Lady
Pauncefote, is extremely youthful in
appearance, and is a charming and
cultured woman. She was educated on
the continent. Her brother, Col. Will
liam George Cubitt, won the Victoria
cross for bravery at the seige of
Lucknow.