St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-11-09
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

z Rev. william c. Winslow, Of Eos
ton, vice-president Of the Egypt ex-
ploration fund, has received the deco
ration Of the Society OF Science and
Arts Of Great Britain for honorary fell
lowship
r. A. BrOckhaus entered business
hundred years ago and ninety years
ago became . book Publisher. Begin
ming with the ConversatiOns-Lexicou.
The firm has consisted OF members OF
his family alone ever since, and the
third generation OF Brockhauses il
about to retire leaving the fourth gen
GRAFTON. Albert and Rudolf. ut the
head of the house. now in Leipzig.
Rev DR.. I. L. Townsend. the Meth
odist divine and pastor Of the M0u Mt
Vernon Place church in Baltimore. has
rendered his resignation to take effect
st the end Of the present conference
year. Mr.. Townsend will leave the
ministry entirely and devote his time
to literary work. rs has been his de-
sire for some time past. Mr.. Town
send went to Baltimore from Boston.
The coming man In Turkey Is
Turchan Pasha. the foreign minister.
who has had . remarkable career and
is in high favor with sultan and the
grand visier. He was educated in
France, and his wife is one of Turkeys
rare new women" At her husbands
official receptions she stands by his
side unveiled. dressed in the latest
European styles and wearing eye
glasses
Geronimo has been In confinement
ten years, and his warlike spirit, ifnot
subdued, Is very carefully concealed.
During his captivity he has consoled
himself with dealing out Justice, in the
capacity of police magistrate. to his
tribe. Meantime his captor. Gen. Miles,
has been talked of for chief magistrate.
Gen. Miles 10 ffty-six years old. and it
is thirty years since he broke the rec
ord in military honors by becoming =
major-general at twenty-six.
n w. Yeats. the young Irish poet.
IL mentioned as reminding one OF
Stevenson. He wears . scarlet sash
and . sombrero in the streets Of Dub
lin and has - tall, willowy frame,
with the tint in his cheeks of the
Wild olive" And il you stop in the
street this mixture of the olive and the
willow with u question n to the
weather-behold! he will ''dreamily
spin you . fable ont Of the Celtic
twilight or reel OF sad-toned SON
net"
John Norton, who IL ninety-three
years old, has lived all his life in his
house near COmpounce lake, Conn.
and. although he has been in sight OF
both the Northampton division Of the
Consolidated and of the New England
railroad, never rode in . car Of any
kind until recently. The old gentle
man is hale and hearty. with all of his
faculties keen and alert. and has q
good prospect Of living tobe one hun
drsd. He ssenssd 70 enjoy his ride very
much.
-willian Watson's nDw and com
parativsly long poana. which has not
yet reached us. but notices Of which
appear in the English papers. is high
~ praised by the Spectator. The poem
~ CuSsViCA ny AAu " s1S SC& Ahe
Spectator says: There is not line in
it which is not . great line.
In this noble poem. mistermed . hymn.
but oil the more wonderful, for the
purely imaginative character Of it,
splendor, we are greatly mistaken il
all competent critics will not recognize
ut last that we have among us another
of the really grestest aastses Of En-
Rlish song"
lit il stated that ~ redoubtabl
m. Max Nordau. the author of DE
generation" Is shortly abant to visit
London. The doctor, wAo has for
some time past resided q Paris. is,
like SO many Of the literary lions Of
Germany, Of Jewish race, Nordau be.
ing IN assumed name. His earlier
work. 1.-THE Conventional Lies of Civ
ilization," was on sale in an English
version some eight or ten years ago;
but in spfte Of its truculeat and acrid
esitiS1Du0, xtasaeoed Io1lo notice.
There Was litale stte0pt hit 20 gibbet
living psesonaees. . metkGdef secur-
ing noties = extensively a1epted In
Degeneration