St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-08-18
PERSONAL AND iMPERsoNAL

-AQU1llA Robertson, VINO Is Sa10 %
have been the first white child born
within the limits Of the present state
of Indiana, is living in Jefferson coun.
ty, near Madison He was born in 1904
in the old settlement called Charleston
With the exception Of Max O'Rell's
last book. every work written BY that
clever Frenchman was translated Into
English by his wife. Mime. Blouet was
born in England and learned French
when . girl. She married the distin-
guished Max before he had attained
any name in literature.
1t seems that m enterprising agent
In London, who Il making up . series
of articles on the obscure wives OF n
nous men, has discovered that there II
. Mrs. Henry Irving. She is tall. very
thin, and lives quietly in little house
In the West end with her two sons.
She was \ Miss O'Callahan before her
marriage.
Tho heir to the Belgian throne.
Prince Albert, SON of the Count Of
Flanders and nephew to the reigning
king, is over six feet tall, though not
yet eighteen years of age. 1t is said
that he bears IN extraordinary resem-
blance to Leopold H., who devotes
several hours of each day to initiating
him into his future responsibilities.
Jennie Creek, the ten-year-old girl
Of Mill Grove, Ind, who by giving
warning of . burned bridge saved the
lives of q worlds fair train load Of pas
sengers ON the p, c., G. l. st. L. rail.
road September 10, 1898. has been deco
rated by the French Society OF the
Legion Of Honor. Her medal is six
pointed star Of solid gold, highly
wrought, bearing the motto Of the
French society, the name Of the little
heroine and the deed for which she II
honored.
-Eugen Richter, the German radi-
cal leader, is the son of Westphalian
army surgeon, and, when he was study
ing in Berlin, attended the sessions OF
the Prussian landtag with as mathe-
matical regularity rs he did those OF
the university. His first important work
was to found ut Dusseldorf co-opera-
tive society ON the principles OF
Schulze- elitzsch, in opposition to
those Of Lassalle, which stood for state
socialism. He tried for awhile being ,
Prussian functionary, but his nature
was too independent for such work.
and he then became the journalist,
publicist and parliamentarian par ex-
cellence Of the radicals
Lawson TAFT exonerates the human
race from the imputation Of being tho
only creatures that naturally take to
drink. Wasps, he says, have the pro-
clivity. Mr.. TAFT has watched the
wasps eagerly attacking overrips fruit.
when the sugar has in some degree
been converted into alcohol. Around
such fruits, especially rotten plums and
grapes, the wasps may be seen fighting
and struggling for precedence, and
afterward, when they arc absolutely
drunk with the spirit, they crawl away
in . torpid condition and hide them
selves in the grass till they have alept
of the orgy.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, whose name h
50 closely connected with the total alb
stinence propaganda, has just proposed
In the house Of commons that Nor ms
jesty the queen be requested when
ever she bestows any new title, or
dignity also TO issue recital OF the
services to the state which have made
such recognition necessary, as Is now
the custom in bestowing the victoria
Cross. Sir Wilfrid adds that for his
own part he cannot understand why .
man wants q handle to his namo; it
could only be because of the reason set
forth by Thomas Carlyle, namely. that
the United Kingdom contained thirty
Eve million Inhabitants, mostly fool2..