The Banner-Democrat., 1893-11-04
PERSONAL AND rMPERsoNAL.

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 tho 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-
iitical skill or foreseen by his political
aagacity: But" said Sheridan, after
expatiating on this, what his royal
highness more particularly prides him
self on, is the late excellent harvest
Rev. Charles Fl. Spurgeon was
asked not long before his death by
an American preacher, Rev. DIR. Viii
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, aud 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
retentive memory-especially for names
of persons introduced to him. One day
he met Bishop, the English composer.
Rossini knew the face well 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 glee, when
the Wind Blows" compliment which
"the English Mozart" recognized, and
would as readily have heard as his less
musical surname.
Miss Caroline Preston Davis could
not, according to the laws of the uni
versity of Virginia, attend its lectures,
but she did pass successfully its exami-
nations in mathematics, receiving from
the faculty a 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 a place as
teacher in the girls seminary at Gen.
eva, N. Wrappers Bazaar.
Adm. Human, the commander-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, rich merchant of Strasburg.
He was minister of finance under the
so-called July monarchy. The admiral
was born in 1888 and was graduated at
the naval school in 1857. He became a
captain 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 cxpe-
dition to Syria, Corea and Cochin-China,
and played prominent part during the
siege of Paris. He has been sent by
the government on several important
diplomatic missions The admiral
married Mile. de Bouthillier-Ch -Chavigny,
and is the father of six children. He
is 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 ideal-looking French soldier.