The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-05-19
PeRsoNAE AND lNapEaoossAa-s

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"A mail carrier up in oxford county.
Maina, when his team was stuck In
the snow recently, borrowed u hand
sled and hauled his mail bags and ono
passenger. . lady, to the station In
time for his train.
Steele was kept in constant uneas-
iness by his irresistible desire to make
love to.every woman who would listen
to him. He was kept In perpetual hot
water by the necessity of getting RID OF
the old love when he contracted q new
affection.
Worth, the man milliner and dress
maker, is an Englishman. He went to
Paris early in life and soon engaged In
the business which has made him ia
nous. Every dress sent out from his
establishment is photographed. MIR
WortE's two sons are associated with
him in business.
Count Pappenheim gave the late
Emperor William a bottle of American
whisky that agreed SO we'll with the
imperial palate that the result was an
order for one hundred and fifty bottles
The lxaiser's check and autograph let
ter accompanying it are in the possess
sion OF Philadelphia liquor dealer
Comptroller Eckels is the greatest
student in the Illustration. In his
room in the treasury department he
has very extensive financial library
and he spends much of his time in
reading. He comes up to his room
alone in the evening and free from in
| terruption reads and studies financial
problems until after midnight
Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian au-
| thor. loves to keep his hair in disorder.
| This is said to be his one vanity. He
| always carries a little toilet case, says
q Danish writer, containing a looking
glass and a comb, attached to the lin
ing of his gray hat. He often removes
| T.: TT +hn sp.r0V tn
how his hair is lying. If it is not
rough enough to suit his fancy. he uses
the comb to give it the requisite tangle.
| There is a story of Carlyle in his
old age having taken the following
! farewell, in his broadest Scotch, OF a
young friend who had had him In
| charge for walks, and who, while al
most always adapting himself to Car
lyles mood, had on a single occasion
| ventured to disagree with him: II
would have you to know, young man,
that you have the capacity of being the
greatest bore in Christendom The
| boredom had consisted solely in the
rather negative sin of not having been
convinced of the truth of one of Car
lyle's dogmas
Mrs Thomas Wentworth Higgin
| son, who is niece of Mrs Longfellov'
is younger than her husband, who i:
Just seventy, by d score of years. She
| and is of great assistance to him in hi
work, because she understands hin
thoroughly. A little daughter o
twelve is the darling and delight o
the colonies hours of recreation
Whenever he goes away on n railroad
Journey, and circumstances render i
possible, he takes her with him. Al
, ready she shows signs of having inner
tied her fathers literary talent.
1t is supposed that business letter
, are deficient in hunor. Still Their
, have been. exceptions, and the yer.
r latest, sent by member of a wei
known wholesale soap:making firm,
one of the most brilliant retail
2 dealer in a small way had sent for
, consignment of their goods: ''Gentle
e men, he writes, ''wherefor have yo
t | not sent me the sope? His it bekaws
j you think my money is not so good a
$ nobody elses? Dam you! wherefo
n have you not sent the sope? Pleas
send sope at once, and oblige your re
|spectful servant, Richard Jones.
S.-Since writing the above. my wifi
,. 1as found the soPe under the counter.