St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-09-15

The Living church says that the
.rsal;name q swami viye Ksnanda, the
Hindoo monk now in this country, h
Novendrs Nath Dutt He II the son od
. Calcutta lawyer and . graduate OF
Calcutta university.
Senator John Sherman has com
pleted in the senate . term equal to
that Of Benton. Of Missouri, though
not continuously, ~ Benton did, and
has eclipsed all other senators but VIII
liam r. King, of Alabama, in receiving
six elections to that body.
The novelist, Barre, is thirty-four
years old, but SO boyish as to look
younger. His figure is slight and
small. his face pale, thin and sensitive
and his head rather too large for his
body. On the small desk ut which he
writes, the pipe celebrated in my
Lady Nicotine" usually lies ready for
use. ~
-Blumenthal, the great theatcr man
ager Of Berlin, was once talking with
Tolstoi about Ibsen, and said: II have
put . good many of his plays ON the
stage, but can't say that l quite I'M
derstand them. Do you understand
themT" ''Ibsen doesn't understand
them himself" Tolstoi replied; ''he
just writes them, and he sits down and
waits. After awhile he expounds and
explainers come and tell him what he
reant."
Conan Doyle has begun to pave the
way for his approaching lecture tour
Of the United States by say ing fatter-
ing things about American authors.
He likes the work Of Riley, Cable, and
Miss Jewett, but he is especially
charmed with Mary E. Wilkins, whom
he considers - singularly gifted wom-
m, who writes rs mo- one else in Amer
ics writes--which might be dubious
praise, but is really intended for . high
compliment
Capt Mahan, U. s. n, who has
been receiving such unusual honors
from England, is extremely modest by
temperament. After he had finished
the manuscript of his remarkable work
on ''Sea Power" early in the year 1859,
he submitted it to literary man in
New York, making the characteristic
remark that it was "a conscientious
piece of work" The New York littera-
teur found it a good deal more than
that, and strongly advocated its pub
location. It has made Mahan famous.
Gilbert A'Beckett celebrated his
to the Office of magistrate At
the Greenwich police court by q char
acteristic pun. A gentleman came be-
fore him to prefer charge of robbery
with violence, committed in the middle
Of the night. In stating his case he
that the assault occurred
while he was returning home from an
evening party. The worthy magis-
trate interrupted him by observing:
Really, sir, I can not make up my
mind to accept anything like an ex-
parte statement"
To the Rushlight, charming peri
odical edited and published by the
teachers and pupils of Wheaton sem
mary, Norton, Massachusetts,, Miss
Susan Hayes Ward has contributed .
memorial of Lucy Larcom.
Miss Larcom's fame rests chiefly upon
her poetry and deeply religious works
in prose; but she was . very successful
and spent several useful years
in that congenial profession. Miss
Ward was one Of her pupils at Wheaton,
and the acquaintance there begun rip
ened into q congenial friendship which
lasted until interrupted by Miss Lar
CONS death.
Count Raphael Cohen. head of the
famous Belgian banking firm, who pur-
chased his title of count, has q tendency
10 drop the name of Cohen and to re.
tain that of Antwerp. Anvers being the
equivalent of Antwerp. Count
and Countess C. d'Anvers sounding
much better than Cohen of Antwerp.
Old Baron Oppenheim, who was aware
Of this weakness ON the part Of the Ant
werp Cohens, finding, ON one occasion,
their names inscribed ON the register of
. hotel as ''Comte ct Comtessc c. dan
vers, wrote his own name Immediately
- Baron O. de Cologne"