Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-09-14
PERSONAL AND ,MpsRsoNAL

FehSONAk AN6 t"Fe"N
Cicero had very thin face, which
corresponded exactly TO his long atten-
uatsd body. He kept hlmsslf thin BY
. system Of dieting. or rather Of starv.
ing. himself. on the theory that all
bodily ailments were caused by too
much eating, and 80, on every trifing
indisposition, he tasted from twenty
four TO forty-eiRht hourS
"A brooklyn man hurt his right
hand on an elevated railroad car by
the brakeman closing = gate upon It
He brought suit for damages Meet
ing friend, the latter noticed that the
injured man extended his left hand,
and asked the reason. The answer
was, ''Oh. I can't shake hands with my
right until win my suit"
Louis XVI. had very heavy, rod,
sensual face. with large Roman nose,
full cheeks and lips and double chin.
There was no trace Of more than orii-
nary intellect, either In his face or
conversation, the latter being always
commonplace. often dull. He gave his
contemporaries the impression OF q
man who habituaily ate and drank
more than was good for him.
When he was ut Eton. the duke OF
Westminster WINS known rs Jack
sheppard" aud for this nickname his
mother was responsible. The duke.
then Lord Belgrave. was small, thin
boy, with sharp figure and sharp
face. Lady Westminster had caused
his hair to be closely cropped after the
French fashion. so that he was the
very living image OF Cruikshank's
pictures Of jack Sheppard in Aims
worth's famous novel,
Some wears ago Ere lcrick Douglass
addressed n convention of negroe, In
Louisville. says the buffalo Courier.
lie said in the course of his remarks
that he did not think an amalgamntion
Of the white and black races desirable.
the pure negro being. In his opinion,
the hest of the race. While speaking.
his eyeglasses continued to slide from
their perch. "liut wish," intcrpo-
lated the speaker. ~ wish that we
could get up some sort of an alloy for
the negro which would insure nose
capable of holding spectacles."
Once when Cardinal Manning was
preaching in Rome he recognized John
Bright among his listeners. On the in
slant he determined TO preach to him.
and dwelt with rs much force and ef-
feet MS he could on the claims of the
blessed Virgin To our vcneration. Two
| Or three years later he met him and re-
minded him of this incident. IL re-
member 1t perfectly" said John, "and
shall never forget II. was delight
ed with everything that morning"-a
yratified smile came on the cardinals
tace-"excepting your sermon"
On the authority of Mile. De Les
,nre. who heard II from the heroine's
avn lips, a writer in the Guardian tells
the true story of Mile. De Sombreuils
saving her fathers life from the gull
lotine. NJ. DE Soinbreuil and his
daughter were condemned to death ut
the time Of the September massacre,
and were waiting in the cart. surround
I'd by the mob. for their turn to mount
the scaffold. Mile. DE Sombreuil turned
to the crowd and asked what harm o
weak old man like her father could do
I 10 the nation. Some of the men an
.wered that II she would drink glass
Of blood to the nation they would let
him go, and passed up a glass She
drank It down Immediately. The
crowd took her and her father from
the cart: they escaped and made their
way to England. She thought ut the
time that she drank blood, but after
ward she concluded that II was red
wine. for she saw no one stoop to ill
the glass To her death she was never
able. however. to see red wine in q
glass without shudder.