The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-02-04
PERSONAL AND ,MPERsoNAL.

eSeOOsNSSe 49, 49,
"A New York oyster-house keeper
has discovered in little neck clam .
pearl, for which he has already becn
offered good price.
IA Moselem (Pa-) farmer grew. it is
said, an Irish potato, the stalk OF which
was feet inches in height and bore
at it's roots bushel OF potatoes
There is female leper in Philadel-
phia Her identity is kept secret, but
she is said to be- of good family. The
seclusion which she must enter will be
for all her life.
I'm her maidenhood Mrs Cleveland's
wit and beauty were not unimportant, for
even before she entered Wells college
at church fair in Buffalo she received
the prize for being the prettiest and
wittiest girl at the fair.
An English health officer recently
received the following note from one OF
the residents Of his district: Dear sir,
beg to tell you that my child aged
eight months is suffering of measles as
required by act of parliament"
"A London lady is in search of an
owner for silver thimble which she
declares she found imbedded in the
center of ham which she was slicing.
She would also like to have some ex-
PLANTATION of how the thimble got there.
Charles Brigham. of the Boston
post Office, is one of the oldest men In
the postal service in the United States.
He was appointed by Nathaniel Green
in 1887, and has served continually
there ever since, a period of fifty-four
years.
The due de Morny, distinguished
as an amateur photographer, has given
to the French war Office process by
which paper Of any kind or thickness
can receive a Photographic print
Eighty impressions can be made in a
minute at trifling expense. Soldiers
certificates of service and character will
bear the owners portrait.
when l first went into the show
business" said wealthy retired circus
man, lone of my chief attractions was
a pair of giraffes. Giraffes were nov
city in those days, and these proved to
be o great card; but before had them
a month they were both taken with
sore throats Do you realize what it
means for giraffe TO have q sore throat?
1t pretty nearly bankrupted me to pro-
vide for their cure"
John Horne Tooke had q strong re-
pugnance to matrimony. He once adj
vised friend who was about to marry
to obtain from reliable sources every
possible detail of his intended wife's
antecedents, then the only allowable
course was to provide himself with a
fleet horse, to be ready saddled and
bridled on the wedding day, and to ride
away from the church as swiftly as
possible before the ceremony took
place.
"A head-master of Harrow had a way
essentially his own of getting rid Of
little boys whom he invited to break
fast You know, little boys have Pc
culiar habit Of becoming inconvenient-
ly glued to q chair. The hospitable
''head' would quietly go mp to the
youngster-who was perhaps in the
middle of another muffin-and say very
gently and with paternal kindness:
"And must you really go?" The little
boy invariably went
lin recent reminiscent paper Mrs
Duncan Stewart writes of Disraeli:
"After Lady Beaconsfield died, we
drifted apart, he and /, and though I
saw him sometimes it was never in the
old intimate way. The last time we
nett was at Lady Stanhope's-I had
a good talk with him, though. 1t was
not until we were parting that l said:
4 hope you are quite we'll? and / shall
never forget the hollow voice in which
he answered: Nobody is quite well. ]"