The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-12-29
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

1T is full thirty years since w. &.
Grace, the English cr;clleter. made his
first ''century in Il big match: Yet 1T
was only Il few days ago that he put on
one hundred and thirty-one runs
against the PROFESSIONALS, making the
ninety-ninth time when he has passed
the three-figurc mark.
Lady Sophia Cecil, aunt of the Mar
quis of Exeter, who is now nincty-four,
is the last survivor Of the famous ball
at Brussels on the night before Water
loo. She is Il daughter of tho Duchess
of Richmond, who gave the ball, and
danced that night with the duke of
Brunswick. who was killed next day a t
Quatre Bras.
flames N1ul1igan. the United States
consul-general at Samoa, writes to a
friend in Lexington, Ky. that Robert
Louis Stevenson is :. very lively man
for ono who is supposed to be in bad
health. lie plays tennis for hours. and
no one can outlast him at Il dance. He
will put off writing a story at any time
to attend ball.
A recent addition to military liter
ature is ga bles from Field a nd staff.
by Lieut.. James A. Frye. of Boston.
The book is the second of a series OF
stories Of life among the citizen SOL
diery and the seven short stories, or
Enclosures, as the author calls them,
are brm full of pathos and humor.
Rear Admiral Albert Hastings
Markham, the Arctic explorer, and
second in command to Sir George
Tvron when the latter. with three
hundred others. was lost in the Vic
toria. was recently married in London
The wedding cake was decorated with
:. model of the Alert, which he COM
manded in the North Pole expedition
of 1876. when he reached So deg,
min., 90 see. the highest northern alti-
| tudc attained by Englishmcn, and only
surpa sSed by Brainard and Lockwood
of Greely's expedition.
| -Pcrhaps the best-naturcd. and at
| the same time one of the wittiest. re-
| ioinders in religious dispute was t ha
| made by Father OIIeary to an Irish
Protestant. II have no objections,
| said the latter. ''to have the Virgil II
Mary treated with reverence. but Only
as a respectable, vcncra bic woman
| Just such /. one my own mother.
'Still.'' replied OLeary, ''you must
allow there is some difference in the
childrcn.'
The duke of northumberland il
spite of his vast wealth. is very unaf
! fected and simple in his life. When
| ever a railway, he usually takes q
third class ticket, to the indignation
| of the railway officials. One day they
determined to break him of this fruga
| habit. and they filed his compartment
| y
| SCOT. When the duke arrived at his
| destina ton, he took the sweeps to the
book ing office and bought them each 4
first-class ticket back again, and put
| one in each first-class carriage, sacks
and all.
"A fac-simile of the ''Soldiers Pocls
ct Bible" compiled by Edmund Gala
my in 1913 and used by CROMWELL:
Eoundheads. of which only two copies
one in the British museum and one il
the United States. are known to exist
has just been published by Elliot Stool
in London. 1t was long supposed tina
the edition used by the army of thu
| Commonwealth was very small Eibl'
printed by John Field, but as that wa
first issued in 1858, after the civil wa
was over, it can not have been tn
bools. The credit for the discovery be
longs to Mr.. George LiverHere, Q
Cambridge. Mass,