The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-10-07

Mr.; George Riddle. the Boston
reader, says that Edwin Booth pnce
said to him: "Whcn you give reading
what do you do with your hands2 |
read Manfred once at Booths theater
once and was at loss as to what tc
do with my hands seemed to be all
hands. =
Miss Minnehaha, an Indian woman,
is trained nurse in a New York wom-
ans hospital, and an excellent nurse
she is said to be. She is finely educated,
both professionally and otherwise, and
her appearance is that of other cultured
women, except for darker tinge OF
color in the skin and peculiarly erect
carriage.
The lord mayor of London has an
allowance of $4,000 a year, but this
sum is only half sufficient, owing to
the enormous amount of entertaining
which the head of the Mansion house
is called upon to do. Still there are,
no doubt, plenty of persons who would
be glad to be lord mayor on this ILL.,
paid basis.
The Princess Margaret of Con-
naught, who is only eleven years old,
took her mothers place at the recent
opening of bazaar at Southsea. Her
father accompanied her, and the two
were addressed as "Your royal high
nesses," much to the delight of the lit
tie princess, who was presented with a
handsome casket.
"A certain English gentlewoman
has lavender distillery in Surrey.
Lavender, like so many other old-fash-
toned things, is coming again into
favor, and its quaint, sweet scent is
right welcome. August is the month
of the lavender harvest. Rose drying
is also carried on by this enterprising
woman, whose investment is quitlf1e
paying one.
Among the dead resting in Mount
Auburn cemetery, Cambridge, Mass,
are Louis Agassiz. Henry w. Longfel-
low, James Russell Lowell, Edwin
Booth, John Lothrop Motley, Rufus
Choate, Charlotte Cushman, Edward
Everett, Charles Sumner, Arson Bur
lingame, Margaret Fuller-Ossoli, Doro-
thy Dix, Phillips Brooks and William
Ellery Claiming.
"A distinguished visitor in Boston
| Just now is Mrs. Philip Barton Key, OF
North Carolina, who is great-grand
niece of George Washington and his
nearest living relative. Mrs Key is a
lineal descendant of Mary Washington,
the generals mother, through that
lady's youngest son, Charles Washing
ton. She is a handsome woman OF ma
jestic figure and her features bear
strong resemblance to the portraits Of
the great George
| w. H. Vanderbilt, some time be
fore his death, spoke of himself as 9
goner, and said; IAN this money isn't
worth rap. / would give it all for
your health" to which friend, hall
laughingly and half seriously, replied
ssWell, too much money is nuisance.
The happiest time in my life was when
was worth $500, O00.'' "And the hap
piest time in my life." rejoined Wander
bilt twas when was working on my
/! Staten Island farm"
| John Hope, one of the prominen
| characters OF Edinburg who mas JUS
died, hated to see boys smoking in thu
streets, and so whenever he met |
Scotch urchin with pipe in his mouth
he would stop and lecture him on thu
subject. Generally he finished hi
homily by purchasing the pipe ant
destroying it in the boys presence
This method of advancing the cause o
the anti-tobacco league did not NEE
with much success. as the boys usual,
invested the money in new pipes ant
further supply of tobacco.