The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-12-23
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The pope has consented to act n
godfather to the king of Spain at his
approaching confirmation and first
communion. Mgr. Cretoni, the nuncio
at Madrid, will represent the pope at
the ceremony, and will lie the bearer
of some very handsome presents.
-Tolstoi, the Russian novelist, takes
the ground that work makes man, as
well as the busy ant, cruel. 1t is, he
declares. the characteristic of Grim
inals; and to make a virtue OF work
such as lola has attempted to do is as
act of feeding.
Henry M. Stanley has made a col.
lection of nineteen legends that were
related to him during his African
travels, and they are to be published
by the Scribners under the title: ''My
Dark Companions and Their Strange
Stories.'' Henry's stock of legends is
said to be ineXhaustible.
Judge Barker, of the supreme iu-
dicial court of Massachusetts,, has sur
prised the lawyers not less than the
newspaper men by issuing an order
forbidding the newspapers to publish
reports of a breach of promise of mar
riage suit on trial before him, or to
make comments thereon.
DIR. Frederick A.. Cook. who was
with the last Peary expedition, and has
just been doing some summer explora-
ton in Greenland on his own account,
anticipates great results from Peary's
present journey. He thinks it will add
many miles to the northern limit of ex-
ploration, and that it is quite possible
the pole will be reached.
Louis Kossuth writes to a friend in
Hungary Il am eighed down by the
burden of years, and my yesight grows
dim. 1 now see only outlines and not
details. l can not read, and when writ
ing only guess at the characters which
trace. Nevertheless, impeled bv a
sense a duty, I completed Sic third
volume of my memoirs IL few days ago"
Prof. Elliott Coues, of Washington,
is in Montana gathering material for
new volume of the history of the ex-
ploring expedition of Lewis and Clarke.
In the preparation of the four volumes
of the work already published he says
he has handled over three thousand
manuscripts. He will go from Mon
tana to Idaho to continue his investi-
cations.
The description of Zola's personal
appearance given by G. A. Sala is iu-
teresting, According to that keen and
observer, the French nov
elist is a noticeable little man, with a
high forehead, rather u Thackerayan
nose, abundant black hair, black mus
tache and bt ard just trimmed with sill
a1ist. bright, alert, often eloquent, al
ways fascinating, occasionally para
doxical.''
Mrs. Ella Bentley, of the Donald
sonville (La.) Chief. strikes out thus:
Tin close proximity to the south side
of the Children's building the glass
roof of Horticultural hall catches the
suns rays and throws them back in a
thousand glittering facets. What a
touch of poetry the exposition manage
ment displayed when they grouped to-
gether women, children and flowers,
an earthly trinity bestowed upon man
to reconcile him to the loss of para
disc"
Mrs. Campbell Wilson, a prosper
0us florist of Cleveland, O., started with
4 cash capital of fifteen cents and an
indebtedness of something over one
hundred dollars. BY going out and So
letting orders and personally deliver
ng the plants and flowers, she cleared
oH the debt on her small esta blishment
n ono season. In the fall she erected
larger one at a cost of three hum
lred and fifty dollars. which she
cleared of debt by the same means in
,wo years. Her business rules are as
ollows: ''Advertise thoroughly. Carry
he best stock. Sell at small profits. |
improve every opportunity to increase
rade.''