The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-11-11
PERSONAL AND ,MPERsoNAL

| "A Charleston Is CO. inventor, wht
sent an invalid's chair of his own con
struction to Queen Victoria some years
ago, received portrait of her majesty
In lieu of other reward, and it has since
been his most highly priced possession.
MIR. George w. Childs, of the Phila-
delphia Ledger, has bought plot in
Greenwood cemetery for the burial OF
the late Richard A. Proctor, whose
body now lies in an unmarked grave,
and the erection of suitable trionu-
ment to perpetuate the memory of the
astronomer.
Congressman w. G. p. Breckenridge,
Of Kentucky, who knows how to talk
well and cloquently, says that hard
work and plenty of it is essential to a
public speaker if he expects to talk
effectively. He must have his subject
well in hand and know a good deal
more about it than his hearers.
-Ex-Congressman John Cessna, of
Pennsylvania, has been present at
every commencement of Franklin and
Marshall college since he was gradu-
ated there In 1912, and he has missed
attending but two sessions of the SUI
preme court of Pennsylvania in forty
five years. He is now ~ years old.
Senator 10 Blackburn, of Kentucky,
appeared at the opening of the session
in shirt of a pinkish hue, tie of deli
cate mauve, and the coat, trousers and
vest were of beautiful ice-cream color
that shone amid the black-coated south
erners about him like single star
pinned upon the bosom of the night
IA New York chemist, accompanied
by two friends. has started on foot
journey to California. They expect to
be one hundred and seventy days on
the way and to subsist exclusively on
an elixir which the chemist claims to
have discovered, end of which he says
half teaspoonful three times day
will enable man to dispense with food
and sleep.
Queen Victoria now heads the list
as the English sovereign who has
reigned the longest She has passed
the record of Henry ILL.,, who ruled
fifty-six years in the thirteenth century.
1t is true George III. was nominally
king for fifty-nine years, but a great
part of his reign was in name only, as
he was insane and the government had
George Nv. at its head rs regent. Pitts
burgh Post.
One of the most valuable and in
teresting art collections in New York
owes its origin to a business mars fail
ure in health. He was ordered to go
west or to Europe for a rest of three
years He chose Europe. and employed
his leisure in developing a latent taste
for the fine arts He became genuine
connoisseur in certain forms of art, and
he began then the formation of col
lection that is probably the best of its
peculiar kind in the United States
There is one lawyer in New York
who distrusts the common belief that
farming is played out in New England.
He bought some ancestral acres in
ing them. The result at the end of
some years is that his capital invested
earns per cent. and he has besides
delightful summer house, enhanced in
value by old associations.
He does not attempt to grow wheat in
with the west, and he be-
lieves New England farmers need to
study markets.
MIR. William Waldorf Astor appears
TO English eyes as quiet, unobtrusive
man of thirty-five, with a pleasant,
open countenance and broad fore
head, indicating an active, intellectual
mind. He dresses in most unpretend-
ing manner and wears no jewelry, save
, single ring and small watch-chain.
His treasures of money are stored in a
strong of riveted |
steel, over which is an inch and a half |
IF solid concrete, which could only be |
by slow and patient drilling.
The solid steel door, with its compli.
lated lock, weighs about two and
half tons.