St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1893-07-01
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The king Of Saxony win celebrate
the flftieth anniversary Of his entrance
into the army next October. With tho
exception Of the grand duke OF Baden.
his majesty 10 the only ruler now living
who took a prominent part in the wars
with Austria and France.
Sir Ponsonby Fame is to succeed
Admiral Sir Charles Drummond Is usher
of the black rod. This Office Is some
what similar to that of sergeant-at-arms
in our senate, only that the usher has
far less to do. and gets $4,000 year
and . splendid residence for doing 1t.
Sir Walter Scott never did justice
to his own poetry. When James BAL
lantyne asked Scott's little daughter
what she thought of 1.-The Lady of the
Lake" she replied that she had not
read IL. for papa says there is snothing
20 bad for young people as reading had
poetry"
-Hamed Bin Thwain. the new sultan
Of Zanzibar and the fourth within the
space of Ave years. is n grandson OF
brother of the four previous snltans,
his nearest relative being A6d,l Aziz,
who is the sole survivor Of the fifty
brothers and sisters of Hamcd Bin
Thwain's grandfather.
baroness Wilson, the well-known
Spanish writer, has completed her sec
ond tour through South America. Mex
leo, Central America. and the United
States. The baroness is q great trav-
eler ss well ~ . writer. and has spent
fifteen years in those countries. study
ing the people and their history.
Lady Emily Langton teaches school
in Chicago. and now seeks divorce from
. worthless husband, who turned out
tn he had man, and who deserted her
to follow out his own methods Of life.
It Is rare. indeed, that an Englishwom-
IN Of title has to apply to the American
court for relief from an unhappy mar
riagc.
Gen. Tracey. congressman from Al
hany. n. Y, says that while the prcsi-
dent of the United States can find
civil answer for everybody. some of the
q. 900 clerks of cabinet officers and
committees put ON the manners Of
despot. The latter probably feel that
they can not afford to be courteous at
that figure.
Queen Marie Henriette Of Belgium
ss . horsewoman n and Judge of horsefiesh
is said to have few rivals in Europe. not
excepting her relative, the empress of
Austria. One of her favOrite amuse-
ments is to organize equestrian enter
tainments, to which only very intimate
friends or persons attached to the court
are ever admitted.
1t will probably be . grief to
Cardinal Vaughan that he must forsake
his beloved omnibus and descend to the
dignity of . private brougham. Yet
such is the inexorable decree Of the
vatican. No cardinal may GO. afoot;
his rightful chariot is driven by two
horses in the eternal city. hut. I'M
diligence allows one Of these to be. dis.
pensed with in Protestant countries.
Cardinal Manning always went eatf1
a single brougham. - ",'' :, :
When Judge Robins. Of XorsestsE
county. Md, died some time in the sos
of the present century. he left behind
him a good number of slaves and .
landed estate of twenty-five or. thirty
farms, varying in area from 200 to 1.sOd
acres. The landed estate he entailed
in the male line. with the hope Of founds
ing territorial family of eastern sAore
magnates. His only son. however. cut
the entail with the consent of the eldest
grandson. and after litigation by two
sets Of the judges grandchildren only
q small fraction of the estate remains