St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-09-01
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


The Princess Maud Of Wales is said
20 be known in her own family circle
almost exclusively Is ''Harry;" she is
80 playful and sportsmanlil<e. But she
is also an excellent cook and gardener.
The requests Of Mrs. Mary NJ.
Hutchinson for charitable purposes
amounts to quite &eO0, 200. She died in
Philadelphia over . year ago. and her
estate, amounting to about 81 900, 900.
has just been settled.
One of the tributes paid to Presi-
dent Eliot in honor of his twenty-fifth
anniversary as president Of Harvard
university is an official address Of con-
fidence and esteem adopted by the
faculty of arts and sciences.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, sis
ter Of the president, delivered the adj
dress at the twenty-sixth commence
ment exercises of the Ossining semi
nary for young ladies. at Sing Sing.
Miss Cleveland spoke of the Importance
of the correct use of words.
Miss Peel, q granddaughter Of the
great Sir Robert Peel. has recently
published an addition to arctic litera-
ture in a volume entitled ''Polar
Cleans" 1t is . journal of her expert
ences on yacht voyage around the
northern coasts of Norway and Siberia.
Miss Margaret Tenant has decided
in trust to Bishop Nichols. of the Epis-
copal diocese Of California. property in
San Jose worth 500, 600. for the main
tenance at Pacific Grove, Monterey
county, of . sapitarium for sick and in
firm poor. irrespective of creed or sex.
1t is to be called the John Tenant
Memorial Home" in memory of her de-
ceased brother.
The shares Of the Revue des Deux
Mondes sixty-five years ago valued at
5000 francs, are now worth &C, 900, while
the annual dividends are seldom less
than l 200 per cent. The literary worth
of the Revue is on par with this. 1t
has contributed not little to the name
and fame of Cousin, Villemain. Emile
de Girardln. Prosper Merimee. George
and Alfred de Musset.
Herbert Spencer, while travelling in
England pounced upon every man in
the cars who smoked or who even at
tempted to smoke out Of the windows.
us it disagreeable to your they would
ask. '.Not at all, he would reply: ''but
it is against the law, and the law is a
proper one. You have no right to
break it, and you shall not do it: and if
you do not desist. / will call the guard"
With porter, cabby or steamboat cap
tain. he was ever ready to do battle in
the cause of justice, but he had no pa
thence with chronic fault-finding. 81
used to visit Carlyle" he said. but he
has got so cross and misanthropic, and
raves SO constantly about the hor-r-ri-
bic state of things, that couldn't stand
it. I do not want to argue With him.
and won't listen to his nonsense, and
so stay away"
Visitors and residents at Florence
have been interested in the auction
sale of the effects-her dogs excepted
of the famous ''Ouida." born II Il
Rance. 1t isn't clear why ''Ouida" nns
the sheriff are playing star roles to
gether, but, as near as can be gathered
from a foreign letter, she has been too
prone to buy things that she couldn't
or wouldn't pay for. Last September
she lost her mother. ''Ouida," stricken
to the heart. tried. like the heroine of
her own ''Maremma, to keep her dead.
but it was not allowed, and the funeral
had to take place. Now, everything
has been sold, even the tombstones to
her dead dogs, monuments of an affec-
ton that can not be bought or sold by
popularity. ''Ouida's" unbending pride
makes any relief people can offer her a
difficult task. She has many friends
still, however.