St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-04-28
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

William, the Conqueror, became 90
stout that he could hardly walk. His
death was caused by his horse plung-
ing violently and throwing him against
the pommel of the saddle.
United States Senator Perkins. OF
California, has been visiting his native
town Of Kennebunkport. Me. He was
twelve years old when he left his home
sudde My. going upon . long sea voy'
age as cabin-boy, and later before the
mast.
Lord Frederick Hamilton, one OF
the two editors of Mr.. Astor's "Pall
Mall Magazine" is . younger brother
Of the duke of Abercorn. He served
for several years in the diplomatic scrv-
ice, and has represented Manchester in
parliament. Sir Douglass Straight,
Lord Frederick's coadjutor, is a retired
Indian judge, formerly q London law
yer and journalist
I'm the death Of Prof. Alloys Spreng-
err orientalists have suffered a severe
loss Born in the Tyrol. he went early
in life to London. where Count Nuns
OSSS0NAOAs
powerful friend. Among the profes.
sor's works arc 1.-THE Life and Teach
ings of Mohammed,r 1.-THE Geography
Of Ancient Arabia" post and Travel
ing Routes in the Orient" and 'Spreng-
er's Oriental Library"
Few books will be more eagerly
awaited in France than the two vol
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Octave Feuillet, the widow of the now
elist, is about to publish. The lifelong
devotion of husband and wife was we'll
known in the gay capital. The atmos-
pherc about the married life of Valerie
Dubois, of Saint Lo. and Octave Feuil-
let, of Paris, was as much above the
ordinary as lie Roman dun Jeune
Homme Pauvre" was above its immedi-
ate contemporaries.
Col. Frank Burr, the well-known
newspaper correspondent, who died ut
Camden, n. j., when three years old
was stolen by the Chippewa Indians.
He remained with the Indians until he
was nine years old, when they left him
behind them on trip to Detroit, then
a trading post He became q news
boy, and at the age of seventeen he en-
listed as private in the Union army to
fight against the confederacy. He rose
rapidly in the service. and at twenty
he commanded battalion.
An English paper tells q good story
Of clerical presence of mind. A curate
who had entered the pulpit provided
with one of the late Rev Charles Brad
ley's most recent homilics was for q
moment horror-struck by the sight of
Rev. Charles Bradley himself in pew
beneath him. Immediately. however.
he recovered enough self-pLssess;on to
be able to say: 1.-THE beautiful sermon
I'm about to preach is by Rev. Charles
Bradley, who I'm glad to see in good
health among us Assem- bled here"
-Cervantes often went hungry for
want of means; Camoens died in q
charity hospital; Millions old age was
spent in extreme poverty; Tasso was
compelled to borrow small sums from
his acquaintance; Ariosto was always
poor and dependent, Cardinal Benti-
voglio spent his old age in distrcssful
want; Vaugelas, the great French
left his body to the surgeons
to help pay his debts; Dryden was so
pestercd by his creditors that he sold
Torson, the publisher, ten thousand
lines for three hundred pounds; John
son lived from hand to mouth until he
got his pension, and most of his liter
airy contemporaries lived and died in
great want