The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-04-29
PERSONAL AND lMPERSONAL.

There is a man in Hartford who
has worked at forty-six different trades.
He forms a sort of trade union all by
himself.
The miseries of the installment
plan were exemplified the other day in
Battle Creek, Mich. A young man gave
his girl a costly Christmas present,
which he had secured on the INSTALL
ment plan. He vas unable to meet his
weekly payments, SO the creditor
called on the young lady and seized the
Christmas gift. A freezing GOODNESS
exists between her and her Young man.
-Gordon Mckay, who has announced
his intention of leaving the great for
tune which his shoe machines have
brought him to Harvard university, is
said, while a machinist in the employ
OF the Boston & Maine Railroad Co., to
have once estimated before it's con-
struction within ten pounds of what a
locomotive weighed when completed
and with coal, water and men on board.
Alexander the Great, the onquero
of the world, died when he was 80
years old. Maurice of Saxony, the
greatest captain and statesman of his
time, died at the same age. The duke
of Wetmar, m of A%dolphus' generals,
died at the age of sc, while Gustavus
Adolphus died when he was SO. Pas
cal, the great French writer, and Raph-
ael. the great Italian artist, both died
at 81.
"A little dispute in a Tacoma BARRIERS
shop led to a serious result. A Gus
toner said to the barber that the sham
pooling fluid he was applying to the
patrons head was nothing but soap
and water. The barber declared that
the chief ingredient was alcohol. Ell
bet it won't take fire. said the GUS
toner. The barber applied a match to
the mans hair and in an instant it was
ablaze.
This is the official report of Senator
Edward Murphy, Jr., as a student at
the college in Fordham: "He left ST.
Johns college, Fordham, while in the
third grammar class, the class just be-
low the freshman. The records of the
college show that he was well up
on the prize list in the studies Of Latin,
Greek and mathematics, and in pro-
fciency,' which is the special college
term for general class standing. He
was weak in the study of religious in
struction and kindred lines"
Mrs Clara Abbott Poor, of Law
renee, now in her Goth year, Is the
daughter of Caleb Abbott, of Andover,
Mass, who was a soldier from Andover,
Mass, in the revolutionary war. He
served throughout the entire war, was
at Bunker Hill, where he had a brother
killed, at Saratoga, and at the terrible
damp winter camp of Valley Forge.
Fifty years after the battle Mr.. Abbott,
with some 200 of his surviving COM
rades, attended and took part in the
ceremonies of laying the cornerstone
of Bunker Hill monument.
"A smoker usually considers himself
free of the deck on a passenger steamer
at sea, but the lookout does not want
him in the forward part of the ship at
night A passenger who was smoking
a free-burning cigar in front of the
wheel house of a coastwise vessel one
evening was startled by an angry
growl from the captain: Don't burn
a cigar like hat out there. You've got
a fire like a masthead light 1t inter-
feres with seeing" Fifteen minutes
later the captain was out there smok-
ing the same kind OF a cigar. But, then,
ne vas captain.