The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-01-12
eERsoNAL AND LITERARY.

The physician in charge of tho
woman.s hospitaiin 500 Chow. China,is
DIR. Anne Walter, a Mississippi woman.
There is no country on earth now
where the pluclsy American woman is
not doing missionary work of some
kind.
Justice j. NJ Harlan, who is s'men-
toned" for the republican presidential
nomination I'm 1896, is a physical giant,
being the largest, ard, next to Gray,
the t0llest man on the supreme bench.
He is sixty -one years old, bald and in
fine health. He is bluff, hearty, very
popular, and greatly in demand at din
ner parties.
Miss Bacon, a young Englishwo,n-
an, enjoyed q most fascinating and cN-
hilarating outing lasa summer. She
cyclcd from London to Scotland, re-
turning through Wales and the lake
district, distance, in all, of twelve
hundred miles, alone; was gone two
days less than a month, and the total
cost of her holiday was fifty dollars.
When the timid colonial clergy
men were afraid to criticisc Aaron
Rurr's treason, they asked Lorenzo
Dow what he thought of Burr's mean
ness. He raised both hands like a
great v, and shouted: ''Aaron Burr,
mean! Why. I could take the little end
of nothing whitfield down to a point.
in forty thousand such traitor souls as
his, shake 'em up, and they'd rattle
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont has
been elected president of a new chap
| ter of the Daughters of the America n
Revolution which has been formed in
Los Angeles, Cal. The fourteen char
| ter members of the chapter represent
| many famous colonial patriots. At the
| opening session, tea was brcwed in
complexities that are heirlooms in the
! Darsey family, and were used by Wash
! ington and Lafayette in the revolu-
| tionary war.
! The personal appearance of Jean
| Richepin, who is described as the most
| versatile genius in all Franco since the
death of Victor Hugo, must impress the
stranger who meets him for the first
| time. He is pictured as Il tall, burly
| man, handsome in a brutal style, with
a low brow, a thick neck, dilated nos
| trils and a general air of athletic calm
ana intellectual vacuity. A PERSONAL
ty Of the John L. Sullivan kind such as
| this is unusual in 4 famous author
Philadelphia Press.
| The late +. w. Bird, the distin
| guished paper manufacturer of Wal
| pole, was believer in a somewhat un
usual cure for sickness of all sorts
| For nearly forty years it WAS his prac
| tice to re ma in in bed all ono day every
when it was absolutely necessary fol
| any caller to see him, he had to see him
| in bed, and only few were permitted
to do this. When Mr. Bird was fort )
years old he was an invalid, yet his
practice kept him alive nearly fifty
years longer.
-Shelley's monument at Niar.ggit
has at last been unveiled. The Italian:
were the principal contributors to the
| work. but besides the names OF Dc
| Amicis, Eonghi. Cavalotti and Menott
Garibaldi as constituting the commit
tee in charge, were those of Mr.. Glad
stone and Mr.. Swinburne. The follow
ing inscription is on the monument
''To Percy Bysshc Shelley. Heart o
| Hearts. Drowned in the sea: crcmatet
on this spot. where he composed
| 'Cronetheus Unbound A posthumou:
page wherein every generation viii
have a token Of it's struggles, it's tear
ind it's redemption"