The Opelousas courier., 1894-11-24
PERSONAL AND lMPERSONAL.

-The ruler of Coburg, better known
as the duke of Edinburg. is a man OF
many hobbies. Among them must be
counted his curious mania for collect.
ing miniature silver ships. At the
present time he is the proud possessor
of a fleet numbering considerably over
fifty. "o--@ uh@
The big fog whistle Or siren was
blowing at Sandy Hook one day last
week when a deaf old gentleman at
Atlantic Highlands, n. j., put his hand
back of his ear and said, while his face
beamed with pleasure: That's the
first cornet playing I've heard in thirty
years."
Rev. G. W. Slaughter, of Palo Pin.
to, Tex, now in his eighty-third year,
is a veteran of the Texan war of indie
pendence and of the campaign of Gen.
Burleson against the Cherokees, which
ended in a great battle on the bank OF
the Natchez river. Mr.. Slaughter was
present at the surrender of Santa AHna
after the battle of San JacintO.
Sarah Bernhardt says hat before
presenting "Izeyl' to the Paris public
she made a deep study of Buddhism
to get the necessary local color for
her role. The French actress confesses
to a great admiration for Ellen Terry's
methods on the stage, and says that
she has initiated some of them with.
profit. Il adore the Lyceum,' says
Sarah; 81 go to school there"
-Veronese loved to represent festive
gatherings on a colossal scale. His
Marriage of Cana is thirty feet long
and twenty feet high and contains one
HUNDRED and thirty figures. The most
remarkable feature of the painting is
the group of musicians in front round
a table. Among this party Veronese
represents Titan, Tintoretto, himself
and other celebrated painters.
-Muley Hassan, the late sultan of
Morocco, was the possessor of a fine
physique, and led a hardy. active life.
He had lofty and rather protruding
forehead, differing in this particular
from most of his compatriots. clean
cut, aquiline features. and a keen. pen
etrating eye; but his under lip was
heavy and sensual, as is usually the
case among the Shereefian descendants
of Mahomet.
The sultan of Turkey has little OF
the old Turkish reserve about him. He
recently invited a party of English Ia
dies and gentlemen to the palace in
Constantinople, and entertained them
Nth - n,.a1C arfnr,,ana of tho
trained horses in the imperial stud.
He afterward asked them to dinner.
which was served in western fashion.
and both the sultan and the young
princes were quite entertaining in
conversation.
1t has been said that the %knightine
of Augustus Harris, the we'll known
theatrical manager of London. was a
democratic trick to hold up the nobility
to ridicule. but that is untrue. He was
in the line of promotion and the gov
ernlnent couldn'thelp itself. Harris is
the best advertised man in London. II
a volcano catches fire in Borneo he
writes to the papers all about it. adding
a rider that he will open a new show at
Drury Lane on Tuesday week.
The new president of France has
passed through one of the most trying
ordeals that belong to celebrity. lie
has had his photograph taken. For
three hours he stood in all manner of
positions before the camera. He was
taken standing. sitting, signing papers,
beside his desk and in front, profile,
half full length, and various poses with
his on, a youth of sixteen. A vast
number of negatives were taken, until
the president finally became exhausted
and fed,