St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-06-30
PERSONAL AND LITERARY i.

When Theodore Parker visited Car
lyle in 1s4s he found the two brothers.
Thomas and John. drinking hot whisky
punch together. Carlyle praised the
young poet Tennyson to the American.
defending HIM from the reproach Of
daintiness and shouting out: low. he
drinks his glass of grog with the rest
of u.s.
Mrs Potter Palmer. Of Chicago. has
q penchant for Mexican and duchesse
laces She probably owns one Of the
finest assortments of these delicate en-
broideries in the world. Mrs Isaac
Catlin. the wife Of the general, has a
special charity fad. She loves to dis
pense clothing and food to the needy
youth Of Brooklyn.
George Meredith rejoiccs ina profu-
sion of hair which falls in artistic neg
ligee round his classically -chiseled
face, and he looks younger than his
years, which are sixty-two. Oscar
Wilde had described his style as ''chaos
illumined by brilliant flashes of light
ming" and, save by the inner cult, no
one really cares for his books
Most Of the droll stories attributed
to Abraham Lincoln are supposed to BE-
apocryphal. but Robert Bonner makes
public q letter he received years ago
from Henry Ward Beecher, in which
the Plymouth pastor says concerning =
visit to Lincoln: abraham told ne
three stories, two of which / forget
and the other won't bear telling"
Miss Elizabeth Bullock, who died
in Salem. Mass. recently, ut the age OF
seventy-seven, had not left her house
for more than forty years Miss Bull
lock was engaged to be married to .
young man of Salem. Just before the
marriage was to take place the young
man broke the engagement and de-
parted for the west This was more
than forty years ago. Miss Bullock
home again alive, and kept her word.
MIR. Gladstone since his retirement
has received many hundreds of tributes
from admirers all over the United
Kingdom, and the gifts are still pour.
ing in. He has received several dozen
walking canes and umbrellas A num-
Der OF admirers clubbed together and
sent him q handsome armchair, and
many more pretentious presents have
come to him. The tributes have been
entirely spontaneous, no suggestion of
such = thing having been made in the
newspapers until their number became
notable.
-Grenville s. Redmond, of San
Francisco. has just taken second rank
in Paris. Redmond. who is only twen-
ty-two years of age, is deaf-mute, and
his career has already been a remark
able one. In 1879 he became an in.
mate of the institution for the deaf,
dumb and blind at Berkeley. Cal. He
1T once showed phenomenal ability as
an artist, and during the last three
years he has been u student at the art
school in San Francisco, his expenses
being borne by the Berkeley institu.
tion.
"A friend Of the late 4. nj. Ballan.
tyne. the well-known author of boys
books of adventure, says he always got
material from first hands His first
story, "Thc Young Fur Traders" he
wrote after spending six years in the
wilderness of North America. He
went to Algiers and wrote 1.-The Pirate
City;" he spent couple Of weeks on
the North sea with the deep sea fisher.
men, and wrote THE Young Traw-
ler;" he sat up for a fortnight or so.
with the London firemen, and went out
in costume to fire almost every night,
and then produced Lighting the
Flames" and Life in the Red Brig.
ade." Again, Ballantyne lived a couple
of weeks in the He'll Rock lighthouse.
ani the result was 1.-THE Lighthouse"
he spent a similar period on the light
ship OF the Goodwin Sands, and wrote
''The Floating Light" and he went
down the deepest of the tin mines, and
the sequel was Deep Down; A Tale Of
the Cornish Mines"