The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-08-19
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


The prince of Wales sent an order,
through his bankers for 81 500 worth OF
flowers to be used in decorating st.
Georges church, New York, on Easter
days. The prince has long been an ad-
mirer of the pastor, Dr. Rainsford.
Perhaps it is OF interest and not
generally known that the word ''Bel-
voir," the name of President Cleve-
lands new summer home in the sub
urbs of Washington, is the name of .
famous English castle, Belvoir castle,
the seat of the duke of Rutland. It 10
pronounced there Beaver
Edmund Law Rogers, of baltimore,
recently exhibited before an assembly
of dentists complete set of false teeth
that had been worn by George Wash
ington. The base plates were of lead
and perfectly fat Some of the teeth
were of ivory and others had been ex-
tracted from a living person.
Kaiser Wilhelm is now said to pass
a good deal of time wondering about
Berlin in disguise. He is reported to
have gone through the Hebrew quarter
of the city recently in the guise of
Hebrew peddler and to have discussed
the condition of the Hebrews with a
great number of the working class of
the race.
Count Leo Tolstoi says he enter
tains a general dislike to all poetry, for
the reason that the effort to conform to
the laws and rules of versification pre-
vents one from giving a clear, intelli-
gent and comprehensive expression to
ones thoughts, and that he regards
verse as, generally, the production Of
literary wantonness, literary frivolity
and literary insolence.
Miss Mary Proctor, of St. Joseph,
Mo-, who is the eldest daughtar of the
late Prof. Richard A. Proctor, the emf
nent astronomer and scientist, who died
to raise funds to purchase suitable
lot and monument in Greenwood ceme-
terry, Brooklyn, where her distinguished
father is at present buried in q Dor
rowed grave that is thoroughly neg
lected.
Mrs. Philip Hamilton, widow of the
youngest son of Alexander Hamilton,
who died recently in Poughl<eepsie, N.
", in her eightieth year,was the eldest
daughter of Louis McLane, of Della
were, minister to England under Pres
ident Jackson She had two sons, DR..
Allan McLane Hamilton, of New York,
and Capt. Louis Hamilton, of tho
Seventh cavalry, U. S. A., who was
killed while leading charge under
Custer.
Mrs. Ellen NJ. Mitchell, of Boston,
has made a special study of Dante, and
has delivered a course of lectures be-
fore the university of Denver and else
author of work called ga Study of
Philosophy" dealing chiefly with Greek
philosophy, and is one of the little
group of Hege1ian students of this
Countrywide school of thought Of
which Prof. William T. Harris is one Of
the most prominent members.
Capt. James s. Hatch, of Spring
field, Mass, one of the few surviving
old salts of the palmy days of the
American merchant marine, and now
years old, was on the
ship with r. H. Dana when he made
his voyage describe in ''Two Years Be
for the Mast Capt. Hatch figures in
the book as MIR. H. He says of the
book: Il think the things he says are
true, but he stretched them so as to
make them read we'll. He especially
stretched the truth when he made him
self out to be good seaman, for he
was only a boy without much expert