The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-06-10
PERSONAL ANo iMPERsoNAL.


Some of our present day children
are startling occasionally. A little
girl of Eve years recently used the ex-
preston s'post-rllortem judgment"
Upon her brothers questioning her and
insisting that she should define IT, she
said. '.Well, If you do thing and then
afterward wish you had done another
thing. that's post-mortem Judgment
Mrs. Abby Hutchinson Patton. the
sAbby Hutchinson" of the famous
family of singers, recently died and was
buried at the old home in Milford, N.
H. The only surviving member of the
family of sixteen children Is John, who
lives at High Rocs, Lynn, Mass, and
is in his seventy-frst year. Three ct
Mrs Pattun's best-known compositions
are MRS. Lofty and l." kind words
Can Never Die" and IF / Were q
Voice"
-Chauncey NJ Depew remarlks:
asyhen attend dinner of my German
fellow-citizens am German. When
sit down to a banquet Of the Sons OF
New England ! am descendant OF
the Pilgrim fathers. / am also an
Irishman at Irish dinners. a French
man at French dinners, etc. l have,
ON q pinch, changed my nationality
three times inside of twenty-four hours
and never suffered anything worse than
a little indigestion for it."
--Tworeverend and eloquent divincs
of the Church of England. at Glouces'
ter, were, on a recent Sunday, the vic
tins of either shocking baseness at the
hands of the sermon factory which
| has been told about, or of deplorable
slip-up IN the distribution of the pate
matter discourses. Tho same sermon,
word for word, was preached in the
morning by the vicar at one OF the city
churches, and in the evening at the
cathedral by one of the minor canons.
| A we'll. known Washington woman
has a habit of writing postal cards to
herself one day as reminders OF special
duties to which she needs to give at
tention on the next Which is like
bit of provision among those notorious
lly-improvident folk-stage people. 1t Il
a common thing for actors and actresses
on the road to send money orders tc
themselves at coming places on then
route list, which is often the only care
for the future many OF them will take
M. Worth aud his son manage their
entire establishment and delegate re
sponsibility to no ono. The whols
place breathes of comfort, luxury and
cheerincss, says visitor Beautifu
girls are sitting or walking about II
the parlars, each elegantly dressed II
an elaborate costume. Over five hun
dred people are employed by NJ. Worth
in each of whom he takes an interest
treating the whole staff more like
/, family than like company OF e'n
psoyes
Charles T. Russell, Of Allegheny
Pa, announces that the millennium
will surely arrive IN October OF 1914
we are now in the tapping time" be
tween the hay of the gospel and tn
grass of the millennium era. Thl
Tapping time'' began In October
1874, and will last forty years Durinl
this period the Kingdoms of the wori
win be overthrown by the anarchisu
nihilists, socialists and nationalist,
At the same time the Hebrews will g.
be in Palestine.
retrieving the post-oficial caree
of the presidents of the United States
, Ia Washington writer notes that 81
meu-Washington, Jefferson, Madison
!, Jackson, johnson and Hayes-oecan
: planters or farmers upon retiring frol
, public life; that five-van Buren, FIJI
! more, Tyler, Grant and Cleveland
. openly tried to get another term; tina
fve-Van Buren,, Polk, Fillmore, Piers
: and Grant--traveled extensively at tn
close of their official career, and ths
four-Adams. Pierce, Buchanan an
. Uayes-sooncr or later became recluse