St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-02-10
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

M. de Lesseps. though partly re-
covered from his recent illness, is still
very weak. and will shortly be removed
to Paris for better medical attention
His salary as president of the Suez
canal having been garnished by the
liquidators Of the Panama Canal Co..
the family is said to be in straitened
circumstances
The house wherein Poe wrote THE
Raven" is still to be seen in New York.
q few hundred feet from the corner OF
Eighty-fourth street and the St. Mich
olas boulevard. formerly the Bloom
ingdale road. It is plain, old-fash-
ioned, double-framed dwelling, two
stories high, with light windows on
each side and one at either gable. 1t
has a pointed roof, flanked by two tall
brick chimneyx-
Mrs Wilson. the wife of the author
of the Wilson bill, is almost unknown
in Washington society. She lives al
most entirely at her West Virginia
home, going to Washington only once
or twice a year for short visits. and
| then declining all invitations She is
| q daughter Of Prof. Huntington, of Co
lumbian university, in Washington,
and is scholar Of no small merit. She
has prepared four sons for college, and
all passed their examinations brill
liantly.
| baron Won Schloezer. formerly Ger
| man ambassador to the vatican, in his
| leisure hours wrote his memoirs, which
were to have been published recent
ly. The young kaiser, however, Sc
cured proof-sheets of the book and
peremptorily forbade its publication.
friend and warm admirer of Prince
Bismarck, and it is believed that his
complimentary references to the ex-
chancellor displeased the emperor
San Francisco Argonaut.
The Forthcoming edition of Sir
Richard Burton's complete and literal
| translation of the Carmina of Catullus
is to be printed on handsome paper
from old-faced type cast expressly for
the purpose, and to be destroyed imme-
diately after production. 1t will have
| for frontispiece an etching of Blake's
portrait of Catullus. The issue will in
| no case exceed the number of 1,sO0
copies. and will be limited to private
| subscription. There are to be few
large paper copies, and four copies ON
| japanese vellum, which are not for
| sale. The volume will contain many
curious and out-of-the-way annota-
| tions-
Daniel w. Dawson, the Philadel-
phia poet, who died not long ago,
| was q sort OF all-around. man. One
morning he went over to New York to
give his foreman and worlkmen some
instructions in carrying out = contract
for building . creosote factory in Har-
lem. In the afternoon tho Authors
| club gave him . reception, and his
latest poem was the topic of discus
sion. Later he went to Sheepshead
bay to see his steeplechaser, Rush.
brook, engage in . race there. In the
evening he lectured on Morse My
thology" before select literary au-
dience. and afterward before the New
I York Athletic club he outboxcd their
| champion amateur middleweight pu-
gilist
Miss Harriet Weed, who has just
died In New York, was probably moro
familiar with the mechanism. of poll
tics, state and national, than any other
woman who has lived during the last
three-qua-ters of . century. She be-
came so through her knowledge Of the
operations Of her father, the late Thur
How Weed. who was political operator
of unsurpassed skill and subtlety.
Miss Weed possessed many OF the traits
of her father. She was Of very re-
tiring disposition, and had lived in
New York for over . quarter Of CEN
tury. hardly known at all to the gen.
GRAFTON now At the front Of the stage.
She was of most kindly nature; she
was most amiable; she was . woman of