The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-01-27
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Nj. do Lesseps. though partly rec
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
Ea is still to be seen in New York,
a few hundred feet from the corner of
Eighty-fourth street and the St Mich
olas boulevard, formerly the Bloom
ingdale road. 1t is plain, old-fash-
toned, double-framed dwelling, two
stories high, with light windows on
each side and one at either gable 1t
has n poin ted roof, f1anlxed by two tall
brick chimneys.
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
a daughter of Prof Huntington, of CO.
lumbar university. in Washington,
and is scholar Of no small merit She
has prepared four sons for college, and
all passed their examinations bril-.
liantly.
Baron Won Schloezer, formerly Ger.
man amba ssador 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 it's publication.
Baron Won Schloezcr is an intimate
friend and warm admirer of Prince
Bismarck. and it is believed that his
complimentary references to the ex-
chancellor displeased the emperor
San Fra ncisco Argonaut.
Tho forthcoming edition Of Sir
Richard Burton's complete and literal
translation of the Carnina of Catullus
is to be printed on handsome paper
from old-faced type cast expressly for
the purpose. and to be destroyed irnme-
diately after production. It will have
for rontispiece an etching of Blake's
portrait of Catullus. The issue will in
no case exceed the number of 1,5OO
copies, and will be limited to private
| subscription. There are to be a few
| large paper copies, and four copies on
! Japanese vellum, which arc 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 n sort OF a11-around man. One
morning lie went over to New York to
give his foreman and worlSmen some
instructions in carrying ont a contracts
for building a creosote factory in Har-4
lem. In the afternoon the 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 ''Norse My
thology'' before select a literary au-
dience, and aftcrvard before the New
York Athletic club he outboNed their
champion amateur middleweight pu-
gilist.
Miss Harriet Weed, who has just
died in New York, was proba bly, moro
familiar with the mechanism of poll
tics, state and national, than any other
| woman who has lived during the last
three-quarters OF century. She be-
came SO through her knowledge of the
operations of her father, the late Thur
low Weed, who was a political operator
| of unsurpassed skill and subtlety.
| Miss Weed possessed many Of the traits
| of her father. She was of very re-
firing disposition. and had lived in
| New York for over a quarter of a CEN
| fury. hardly l>n own at all to the gen
Grafton now at the front of the stage.
| She was of most kindly nature; she
| was most anna BILE; she was woman of
| good deeds.