The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-10-21
PERSONAL AND iMPERsoNAL.

Daniel Webster used to be fond OF
| draughts. The widow of ex-Speaker
Linn Boyd, of Kentucky, says that
when in Washington he often visited
her husband, and that they would
play the dreary game of checkers
steadily hour after hour, sometimes till
after midnight
Richard Brinsley Sheridan was
once talking to a friend about the
prince regent, who took great credit to
himself for various public occurrences,
as if they had been directed by his po-
litical skill or forcseen by his political
sagacity: But" said Sheridan, after
expatiating on this, what his royal
hlghuess more particularly prides him
self on, is the late excellent harvest =
Rev. Charles II. Spurgeon was
asked not long before his death by
an American preacher, Rev. DR.. Will
liam Wright, if it was true that he
once said: RESIST the devil and he
will flee from you; resist a deacon and
he will fly at YOU The great preacher
answered that the sentence was older
than his grandfather, and SO-could not
have originated with him, and that he
never had any experience which would
have justified him in repeating it.
-Rossini was blessed with not very
rctentive memory-especially for names
of persons introduced to him. One day
he met Bishop, the English composer.
Rossini knew the face we'll enough,
and at once greeted him. ''Ah! my
dear Mr.. - but he could progress
no further. To convince him that he
had not forgotten him, Rossini com
menced whistling Bishops glec, ''When
the Wind ElowS,' compliment which
the English Mozart recognized, and
would readily have heard his less
musical surname.
Miss Caroline Preston Davis could
not, according to the laws of the uni
vcrsity Of Virginia, attend its lectures,
but she did pass successfully it's exami-
nations in mathcmat tics, receiving from
the faculty u certificate of excellence,
and the members of the graduating
class voted to her the privilege Of an
honorary diploma. Miss Irene w. Colt,
the brilliant young woman of Norwich,
Conn.,, who successfully passed the
classical examinations at Yale last
summer. but was forbidden the priv
ilcge of entering the university because
of her sex, has accepted place as
teacher in the girls seminary at Gen.
eva, n. H.-lIarpers Bazaar.
Adm. Human, the comma nder-in-
chief of the French forces in Siam,
whose name has appeared SO otter in
print since the beginning of the trouble
between France and the Oriental coun-
try, is the grandson of, Jean-George
Human. IL rich merchant of Strasburg.
He was minister of finance under the
so-callcd July monarchy. The admiral
was born in 1888 and was gradua ted at
the naval school in 1887. He became
plain in 1880. Nine years later he
was made vice admiral and commander
in-chief Of the division of the extreme
orient. He went on the French expe-
dition to Syria. Corea md Cochin-China,
and played n prominent part during the
siege of Paris He has been sent by
the government on several important
diplomatic missions. The admiral
married Mile de NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
and is the father of six children He
is a man of medium height, exceeding
ly strong, erect and forceful-looking.
His features are large, his beard is
heavy and gray. On the whole he is
an idea1-lool<ing French soldier.