The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-12-22
pERsoNAL AMp LITERARY.

Every Friday the Duchess D'Uzes.
the wealthiest woman In France. puts
Oh the ordinary dress of q nurse. and.
going to the cancer hospital, acts as
one of the regular attendants. placing
herself entirely under the orders of the
superintendent.
-.Since the death of Holmes there
are only four surviving members of the
class OF 1890 of Harvard namely, DR..
Edward L. Cunningham, of Newport,
II. l.; Rev. Samuel May (the class sec
retary), of Leicester, Rev. Samuel F.
Smith, of Newton, the author OF
america" and Charles S. Sorrow, OF
Boston.
1t appears from statement in the
Century Magazine that this periodical
receives an average of 1900 articles Il
year from those who desire to appear
in its pages. AS the most that the
magazine can possibly find room for,
on the basis on which it is conducted.
is about 400. it follows that there must
be 5000 of these articles rejected.
Mr.. Maxim is having a curious con-
troversy with the United States pa tent
Office, which declines to allow a pate mt
for his flying machine on the sole
ground. as he claims that it is a fly
ing machine. He can patent the separ-
ate inventions of which it is made. tut
that would cost two thousand dollars
and would give Indifferent protection.
M. Dupuy, us minister of the to-
rior, has just forbidden bull fights in
France at which either bulls or hon ses
may be killed. At Mines, where prep
arations had been made for a series of
fights on q large scale, the prohibit ion
caused great excitement. Crowds pa
raded the streets demanding the fights,
md a public meeting was called to rro-
test. The court of cessation will be
called upon to decide on the validity OF
the prohibition.
Rev. DR.. Arbuthnot, vicar Of Str at
ford-on-Avon, says that his old church
is in much the same state as it was in
Shal<espeare's time. OF the few genu-
Inc relics of the dramatist preserved in
his native town the most interesting
are his signet ring, with the initials
''W. So on it, and the desk at which
he sat in the grammar school of STRAIT
ford. Theaveragc number Of visitors
to the poets home and church is 90, 900
a year, of whom about G, 600 are Amcri-
cans.
james Pay1 says that there was
queer resemblance between himself
and another Trinity man. Not only
was 1 often addressed by persons who
took me for him, but people used to
ask. apropos of nothing, whether I
knew So-andSo. 1 remember making
a considerable impression upon u
chance passenger in :. railway train on
the Cambridge line, who was staring al
me rather hard, by Suddenly observing:
No. sir; do not know Mr.. So-and-So.
1t had been the very question he was
going to ask me, but my anticipa ting
it seemed to him SO canny that he got
out at the next station
During the years that John Newell
was president of the Lake Shore road,
it was well understood that it was
difficult matter to get a pass over thai
line. He carried this pet idea to such
an extent that when making up his ex-
change passes he wrote across the end
of the packet addressed to President
Caldwell of the Nickel Plate these
words: Not good on limited fast
trains" by return mail came Presi-
dent Caldwe11's annual pass on the
Nickel plate for President Newell.
Across it's face in flarinY red ink and in
the bold handwriting of President
Caldwell were written the words: Not
good on passenger trains