The Opelousas courier., 1894-10-06
PERSONAL AND lMPERSONAL.

-"Mv son" said a wise father, never
throw away anything; there is no bait
| at which some fish won't bite
Mrs. Mary E. Harris, of Roxbury
| Mass, began collecting buttons some
| thirty years ago., and now has twelve
| thousand different kinds. 1t is be-
lieved the buttonholes belonging to
them have been lost.
-''Economy in one thing breeds econ
omy in Others" says a prudent man.
ST you can once make a start in this
direction You will doubtless be sur
prised at the saving that can be effected
without much effort"
"A sensation has been created among
the women of Mexico by the appoint
ment of one of their number to an Of
flee for the first time. that of Miss
Maria Gonzalez Hermosillo to be post.
mistress in the state of Jalisco.
Woods hotel" one of the few re-
naming buildings of London that are
associated closely with Charles Dick
ems, is about to be demolished. In one
suite of rooms in the building Dickens
puSStu EOu SOIlc VI tllG ludHN tlClS.
STUDIES of his life.
"A Brahman dignitary named Sir
Ramstidgy Damstidgy Ghighibhoy is
now in Philadelphia. He is tall. fine
looking man and has been received by
the Cadwallader-R MISUNDERSTANDING
as though he had a name as simple and
%mclodious as theirs.
Nj. Pierre Lott, the French novelist,
will not read a daily paper. scarcely
ever writes a letter, invariably turns
interviewers away from his doors, and
does his work in a which is away
up on the top of a tower, and car be
reached only by a single ladder.
DIR. Wayland Johnson, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Easton, Pa,
has been elected a member of the Brit
ish Society of Psychial Research. The
object of this society is, to investigate
the phenomena of occult operations of
the mind. Its president is Right Hon.
Arthur ]. Balfour. and it has among
it's honorary members such men as
Gladstone, John Ruskin and others.
Thomas Tyrwkitt Drake, after Sir
Thomas Mostyn, the master of the
Bicester and Wanden hill fox-hounds,
was a stern and determined man No
N rode SO %stanchly or made a bigger
row when sport was interfered with,
as on the occasion when Sir Anthony
Rothschild,s hounds got mixed up with
Squire brakes. Sir Anthony said: 'No
shent to-day, squire!' The squire re-
piled: NO, Sir Anthony, the shent is
not half SO strong as the three per
shents in the city"
Prof. Charles Elliott Norton said at
the Bryant centenary: 1.-The harebell
mods with the rhythm of Scott'sdelight-
full verse; the daffodil dances to Words
worth's tune; the lark sings Shakes
peare's 'Hark! hark!' at Heavens gate;
the nightingale ceases to lament
for her poets untimely death in Keats;
and as Burns has made the mountain
daisy, SO has Bryant made the fringed
gentian his own And as long as a
wild duck shall cross the crimson sky
Of evening in its flight, so long shall
Bryant's memory float Heavenward
with it."
IF it was an enemy that burned
my barns last year." said a New York
farmer, ''he did me a good turn with
out knowing it. They were not fully
insured, but 1 got something on my
policies, and l got great deal more
from an unexpected source. Those
barns were big, and they hid from me
and my neighbors several miles of dis
tant prospect. After the fire my neigh
bors came round and said they were
sorry for my loss, but delighted with
the view those barns had been hiding
for so many years. Well, ! began a
new barn on part of the old founda-
tions, when a man came along and Of
fered me $1,000 an acre for the land
that included the barn site. I tore
down what I'd begun to build, and sold
The land for a good deal more than /
had dared to hope it would fetch in my
lifetime, and the view did it. II the
barns had not been burnt nobody
would have made me any such offer"