St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-06-16
PERSONAL AND LITERARY j..

Henri Rochefort began his jour
nalistic life by writing pungent and
witty articles for q friend whose name
he signed. They received such fiatter-
ing attention that he was prevailed to
write over his own name.
Tho duke and duchess of Fife are
passionatelv fond of dogs, and when
they travel they always take several
canine pets with them. The duke is
most fond of collies and Scotch ter
riers. and the duchess Of fox terriers
and pugs.
Mr.. Gladstone, in addition to five
hundred thousand dollars left by his ia
Their, has n rent roll of the Hnwarden
estate which came into the possession
of his wife on the death Of the last
male Glynne. His annual income is
one hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars
Mrs. f. d. E. n. Southworth has
just passed her seventy-fourth birth.
day. She is in fairly good health and
may live to have her years equal in
number her eighty novels. 1t is hard
~ likely that she will write another
book. though her mind is stlil active
and fertile in invention.
1t is reported that Mrs. U. S. Grant
has quite decided not to publish her
memoirs of her husband. as it is her
wish that this book shall not be pub
lished until after her death. Several
publishers have had the opportunity to
look it over, and it is said that one has
offered fifty thousand dollars for the
work.
Mr.. Stuart Rendel. the Welsh
radical who has been made a peer on
the recommendation OF Mr.. Gladstone,
is the father-in-law of one of Mr..
Gladstone's sons. He is one of the
wealthiest men i'm Wales, and has been
one Of the principal entertainers of
the liberal leaders during the last ses-
sion.
Jean Casimir- Perier, who has taken
upon himself. as premier. the perilous
task of plotting a new French minis
try. has. like President Carnot, a dis
tinguished ancestry. He is both grand
son and son of ministers. His grand
father was the president of Louis
philippe's council, and his father was
Q minister of Theirs
Although paper-bound French
books have become very cheap in New
York city, paper-bound books in
Italian are still high priced and often
very i'll made. They are bought chiefly
by resident Italians. while French
books are bought by all sorts of per-
sons. The old book shops and stalls
are crowded with French books that
go at very low rates, but sell compara-
lively few Italian books, save the
classics, and those usually in good old
editions.
When Neal Dow was chief of the
Portland volunteer fire department
some of his men complained about the
strictness of his discipline. One Of
them appealed to the mayor once, say.
ing: "Mr. Dow is altogether too strict.
At the fire the other night he ordered
me to go between two buildings and
their walls were likely to fall at any
moment wouldn't CO." "And what
did Mr.. Dow do when you refused to
obey?" asked the mayor. He was fool
enough to go himself"
When Olive Schriner is in London
she gives very curious little receptions
The guests are eclectic both in religious
belief and literary taste. Tall, long.
haired young men, vivacious, bright
maidens earning their living by the
pen or the brush flock to drink in wis
dom from the lips of the writer of the
''Story of an African Farm" At the
present moment Miss Schriner is back
in her house near Cape Town, and the
little fat which she inhabited during
her long sojourn in London knows her
no more.
Charles Reade found the hero of
his novel 1.-The Wandering Heir" in
the person of Lord Altman of Ireland,
who was sold as a ''redemptioner" at
Philadelphia in 1928, and who served
for twelve years in effect as slave to
one or more masters in Lancaster
county. Pa. The young nobleman was
recognized by two Irishmen who came
by accident to the house where he
lived, and Admiral Vernon afterward
took him back to Ireland. Reade laid
the scene of Lord Altham's servitude
in northern Delaware, but it is pretty
we'll established that this was an error.