The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-01-28
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL.


"A family in Reading, England. can
prove by local records that they and
their ancestors have paid rent for their
house no less than 400 years
The family of the stern and despotic
car are of romantic and passionate
temperament, it would seem, by the fre'
quency of morganatic alliances entered
into by its members Now the Grand
Duke Nicholas will wed the woman
Mime. Bourinine, the widow of q mer-
chant
Lady Tennyson has in her portfolio
q large number of melodies set to her
husbands words. Some of them, with
pianoforte accomplishments by Miss
Janotha, have been performed, but
others are either mere sketches or have
not yet been given to the world. In
the course of next year we are likely to
hear more of them
Edward Blake, the eminent Cana
dian liberal, who was recently elected
a member of parliament, has been in
vited to talk on home rule in Boston at
an early day. Alansou w. Beard, Will
liam E. Barrett, Rev. Stopford Brooke,
Mayor Matthews and other prominent
Bostonians, in addition to leading Irish
Americans, signed the request
Some three or four months ago
Baron Hirsch distributed all his earn
ings on the turf for the previous year,
amounting to $4,000, among deserving
charities He has accumulated fresh
profits from the races won by his horses,
and he intimates that further sum of
500, 600 will be available for charitable
purposes at the beginning of 1898.
John Nunns, an Indiana bandmas-
ter, well known in Jacksonville, is a
direct descendant of Pedro Nunez. the
Portuguese gcographer and friend of
Columbus. He once possessed a consid-
cradle fortune and his career has been
one of remarkable vicissitudes, ranging
from service in the Crimea and in the
Sepoy rebellion to screen manufacture
ing at Peekskill.
Mr.. Charles j. Harrah, the Phila-
delphia steel manufacturer. makes it q
rule, it is said. never to discharge man
under any circumstances until twenty
four hours after the provocation which
brings him into disfavor. Although
Mr.. Harrah employs great number
of men, he knows each one of them per-
sonally, and is familiar with the work
which he has to do
The greatest stamp collectors in
the world are Philippe Ferrari, son of
the late Duchesse de Galliera, and the
ear, whose collection is said to be
worth 5000, 1909. The car began his
collection when boy and has been add
ing to it ever since. M. Ferrari, who is
said to have cast away fortune be-
cause it did not belong to him, boards
stamps as miser boards money.
MIR. w. NJ. Conway daring English
traveller, has succeeded in ascending one
of the peaks of the Hindu Kush mount
aims, on che border of Kashmir, to the
height Of %, 900 feet This is 1000 feet
higher than the summit of Mt Blanc,
several thousand feet better than the
record of Whymper in the Andes and
1000 feet greater than the altitude
reached by Schlaginwelt in his famous
Nepaul feat
Augustus j. c. Hare tells an inter
esting anecdote of Disraeli, who went
to Liverpool, "a young man all curly
and smart" with letters of introduce
ton to Mr.. Duncan Stewart. When he
was shown the exchange, crowded with
busy merchants, he said: my idea of
greatness would be that a man should
receive the applause of such an assem-
blage as this-that he should be cheered
as he came into this room" At that
time Disraeli remained in the room un-
noticed, bnt some years later when Mr..
Stewart again conducted him to the ex.
change a cheer arose that deepcned into
roar. The prime minister was greatly
pleased by the demonstration, and re-
called to his host the remark he had
made years before.