St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-06-09
PERSONAL AND ,MpERsoMAL.

AAIHOuku 1AOutdS DdA0y AIutlCiI
Is nearly sixty, his easy-Yoing way OF
life has kept him youthful and he looks
younger than he is His hair is slight
~ tinged with gray, but his face is
ruddy and fresh and his voice is genial
and ''as balmyas one OF HE own stories "
The shah Of Persia, accompanied
BY his favorite son. Prince Massud
Mizxa, win leave home early in june
and go to London via St Petersburg
and Berlin 1t is generally understood
that the threat of a visit from the shah
makes every body about the royal house
hold Uneasy.
There is N old lady Of Glenlyon.
near Grief, in Scotland, Mrs ki?pcn
by name. who is in the position OF
being able TO say: Rise. daughter.
and go to your daughter, and ask her
% 90 to her daughters daughter"-in
other words, she is great-grcat-
grandmother, and what is more re-
markable, all the five generations are
alive.
Jose Maria de Heredia, recently
elected q member of the French
academy. is not mulatto, as has been
widely published The error is due to
confounding him with Leverians
Heredia, who was minister of public
works in France some years ago. The
latter is mnlatto who was adopted
when a child by . member OF the
Heredia family.
John de Haven was . wealthy
Frenchman, who came to this country
before the revolutionary war. and
loaned the government a round sum OF
money when the struggle began The
amount is stated ut 500. OOJ. and the
thirty living heirs-scattered through
three or four counties of Pennsylvania
are willing now to accept 5000. 000
and call it square
One Of the popular English authors
Of the day was wholly incapacitated
from work by lady who lived next
door and strummed Handers "Mes
siah." His idea of the inviolability OF
an Englishman's house did not allow
him to send in any message, and he
was at his wits end till he saw in 2
daily paper that steam-whistles could
be bought to fit on to kettle spouts-
He provided himself with one, and put
the kettle on the fire in the room near.
est the singer. As soon as the whistle
began, he went out OF course the
bottom came off the kettle. hut it cost
little to solder it on again, and after
two or three solderings the lady took
the hint
Jacob Tome, OF Port Deposit, Md,
whose bundle of 500, 900 was carclessly
tossed about railway car the other
day, is perhaps the only millionaire
eastern shoreman. lie began with
nothing Of material wealth and scanty
education. and has been reputci a mil
lionaire for more than twenty years
He built costly home at Port Deposit,
but thriftily placed it where he could
make his bank part of the structure.
The site was necessarily in the narrow
Susquehanna valley. where the bust
ness portion of Port Deposit nestles
and the spring floods invade Mr.. Tones
fine house as they do the dwellings OF
his neighbors Immediately behind
the house, SO close that one may al
most look down its chimneys. rises a
terraced hill some hundred feet high.
John Harris, of Pennsylvania, be
longed to a class of men that this coun-
try produced in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries and perhaps in
the earlier years of the nineteenth, but
a class that has received few recruits
in the last seventy five years. Like the
picturesque and strenuous Augustine
Herman, a hero of New York city and
the Delaware peninsula, Harris estab
lished himself in the wilderness and
became a man of wealth. power and
high consideration through trade with
the Indians. Harris Ferry became
Harrisburg and the capital OF Pennsyl
vania- Harris son John took up the
business where his father left it, and
in the sons day letter to 1.-THE care OF
John Harris, Harris Ferry. North
America" reached its destination from
any part Of the world. The man who
surveyed the town that has grown into
the capital city was the second Harris
son-in-law. William Maclay, the scna-
tor from Pennsylvania who conceived
20 low an opinion of Gen. Washington.