St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-09-22
eEnsoMAL AND LITERARY.

"a man there was and they called
hlm mad; the more he gave. the more
be had.-Bunysn.
The country home Of Miss Margoe
Tenant (now Mrs. Asquithl, and her
sisters used to be known among the
men who were entertained there rs
'sChateau Margot." The young ladies
exceled in walking on stills
When Earl Ferras had been con-
victed of murder, great efforts were
made to obtain = pardon. ON the ground
that he was insane. His mother being
applied to, and requested to write .
strong letter ON the subject. answered:
swell, but if do, how am I to marry
81 my daughters" he. -
The engagement Of NJ. Ernest Car
not, the second son of the assassinated
French president, to Mile. Chris, daugh-
ter 81 the senator Of the Alpes-Mari-
times department. is announced. Presi.
dent Carnot had two other SONS. Sadi.
an officer of infantry, and Francois, a
pupil engineer in the Ecole Centrale. al
Paris.
q in Kansas there is . woman who
has forty -three-year record in news
pspers work, and she is only fifty-five
now. She is Mrs. n. E. Bronston, OF
Atchison. She began her extended
journalistic career in her fathers Office
in Newport, n.y., and since then has
been connected with half a dozen Kan
sas papers.
Rider Haggard has been suggesting
that Journalism ought to be controlled
by regulations modelled on those which
govern the clerical, legal and medical
professions. Before becoming a jour
nslist a man ought to subscribe &c
thirty-nine or more articles and Pass
IN examination. In the meantime a
few jbornalists might be made, while
. lot of good newspaper men would be
starving to death.
Mrs. Zulme f. Hearsey, Of Baton
Rouge, La. is one of the most success
full business women in the state. After
the close of the war. her husband be-
ing an invalid, Mrs. Hearsey opened q
large bookstore, which at once sprung
into popular favor. and to-day is the
recognized headquarters for all stand
ard publications, as well as the
rendezvous of all book-lovers and lit
terateurs- She employs a force Of
thirty newsboys. She also manages q
large Horticulture trade.
Rev. John Jasper. of Richmond.
Va. the most noted of all slave preach
ers. is now over eighty years old, and
believes rs firmly as he did in 1878,
when his famous sermon was preached,
that 1.-The Sun DO Move He recent
ly gave an outline of that celebrated
discourse, which, he says, was com
posed in order to set at rest some
doubts which had arisen in the mind OF
. young member of his flock.
The royalties of Europe patronize
the bicycle with as much energy as the
boys Of America. The. king of the Bel
gians exercises upon one daily. little
Queen Wilhelmina rides one when she
is at her castle of Het Loo, and the
czarowitz, Princes Waldemar and Carl
of Denmark and Princes George and
Nicolas of Greece are all cyclists. The
bicycle of the khedive of Egypt is q
gorgeous machine, almost completely
covered with silver plating.-Harper'.
BAzar.
There is q dearth of good poetry in
these times, according to the poetical
editor of a New York magazine. He
says that the demand for il has for a
good while been greater than the sup.
ply, and he believes that the producers
of it have been discouraged by the
newspapers. For years past number
of papers have often taken occasion to
sneer at great deal of poetry thrown
on the market and the younger poets
especially have felt disheartened under
the sighting remarks Of writer's who
were unable to appreciate their verse.
II is evident that these poets are deter
mined to withhold their products from
the public until such time as they can
hayca reasonable assurance of better
treatment. The older poets are hard
ened against abuse, but they can not
tsrn out poetry every day.