Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1893-03-30
PERSONAL AND lMPERSONAL

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finding the fire in the parlor crate had
gone out, asked his wife to bring in
something dry with which to relight it.
The good woman went to the barn and
pulled from barrel an armful of her
husbands old sermons.
Senator Turpe, who has been re-
elected by the Indiana legislature, is
said to have eight languages at his
tongues end. He reads Latin, Greek
and Hebrew almost as readily, it is
averred, as English, and he has fluent
command of French, German, Spanish
and Italian.
Lord Stanley of Preston, the pres
ent encouragement of Canada, expects
to be relieved before long, and it is eX-
pected that his successor will be the
earl of Aberdeen. Lord Aberdeen en-
tered the house of lords as tory, but
became liberal about 1880 and was
Gladstone's lord lieutenant of Ireland
in 1886 lie is only 40 years old, but
has been in public life most of the time
since 1870.
The French government once was
needing money, and a would-be wit
suggested to the minister of finance
that tax might be put upon wit.
Everyone would pay it voluntarily,
because no one would wish to confess
to being stupid" he said. MANY
thanks, sir" replied the minister, affa-
bly,; ''if / adopt your plan, l shall cer'
tainly exempt you from the tax, as a
token of appreciation"
Herr Won Madai, who was for many
years the president of police in Berlin,
was vain of his many decorations No
man in the country, outside of the
royal princes and Bismarck and Won
Moltke, could display so many decora-
tions on his breast Every sovereign
who came to the capital as a mayaer of
course contributed decoratiohro Won
Madai SIS this photograph not good
of you?" once asked Il young lieutenant.
mo" replied his excellency, 81 then
had only fifteen decorations and now
have sixteen"
The steamboat engineer was polite
and attentive (says the Lewiston Jour-
naD. 1t may be that he was fattered
by the fact that lady so impressive
in her manner should have come to him
for information. At any rate, he told
her all about it, just where the steam
came into the cylinder, where it es-
capped, and how it was that the piston
rod attached to the crank turned the
wheels that propelled the little vessel
through the waves. She appeared tc
be all wrapped up in the information,
and when he had finished, she turned q
beaming face upon him and said: "Now,
what is the object of the boiler?'
The late Frances Anne Kemble was
born in London, November q, 1909, and
was therefore nearly eighty-four year;
of age at the time of her death. She
was nearly twenty years old when hei
father, the celebrated Charles Kemble
put her on the stage. Her debut, as
Juliet, was great triumph. She came
to this country in 1882 and played here
for two years In 1884 she married q
South Carolina planter, Mr.. Pierce But
Ter, but the marriage was unhappy ant
they were divorced in 1S4S. She lived
in this country forty years, although
she much preferred her native soil
Notwithstanding her wonderful tri
umphs and her more wonderful imper
sonations-which have been described
as seemingly inspired"-during the
five years she spent on the stage she
greatly disliked the actors life and was
glad to cast it off However, she gave
many Shakcspearean readings, in which
her art as an actor had full sway Sc
that in her rendition of these wonder
full characters they seemed to be en-
bowed with nothing short of life itself
Her last readings were given in the
season of 1869