The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-07-20
PERSONAL AND Lt1EnARv.

PERSONAL AND LtTEnARr.
Boswell was too great q Ounce to
know how good his Life of johnson"
really was. So far as known, he wrote
it simply to crafty his itch for writ
ing, and had no idea of its excellence.
Emperor William has sketched the
general plan of a history of the war OF
1870, and has commissioned Prof Lind
ner. of the university of Halle, to write
celebration in September, and will be
issued in an edition of 100000 copies.
Bishop Wesley J. Gaines Of
Georgia. the new star in the theolog'
ital armament, is a cOlored man of vast
proportions. He is said to have won
derful fund of oratory, originality, and
wit, a man who believes in putting. as
he expresses it. lots of ginger into his
sermons and who realizes his senti-
ments.
President Faure of France, when
on his travels, is accompanied by two
Wallets, one of whom has the single
duty of looking after the presidents
task. RS the number of suits and cos
tunes which the president is obliged
to carry about is considerable.
Col. Thomas Wentworth Higgin-
son says of Oliver Wendell Holmes: at
was uncertain to him, and always re-
manned uncertain, whether his main
claim to fame was to rest upon his pro-
fession or upon literature. Out.iaers
generally made up their minds that he
always chung to the ]aurels that came
from both, but in his early years he
undoubtedly preferred his profession"
III Henry A. Dupont goes to the
United States senate from Delaware
millionaires in that body, and will be
the first really rich man to sit for Del
aware. He is not an idle or a luxuri-
Gus man, as it has been the way of tho
Duponts for a century to learn the
powder-making business, and to work
at it, at first with their hands and
later in the executive department OF
the office.
William S. Steel, chief coiner of
the United States mint, whose resigna-
ton, rendered more than a year ago,
has recently accepted by President
Cleveland, had been in continuous
service for thirty-four years. lie en-
ant weigher in the deposit weigh
room. He was made chief coincr in
1885. and since that time the entire
coinage output of the government has
been under his supervision.
MIR. Gladstone has been telling
about his present manner of life. He
gets up at 6 O'Clock in the morning, hav.
sleep; takes his bath, shaves, goes into
the garden, or lin rainy weather) does
a little reading, and at seven sits down
to breakfast. Then he goes to church
(every day., and on his return settles
down to work on his correspondence.
After luncheon he takes a walk
drive, if the weather permits. He sits
down to dinner at eight, and half-past
ten finds him in his bedroom.
-Mme dc Chevreuse, a representa-
tive of one of the noblest families in
France, declined the honor which
Napoleon wished to confer on her. that
of being maid of honor to his sister-in-
law, the queen of Spain. She after
ward became Josephine's dame du
palais, but always affected to look
down on the imperial court. One day
she went to reception at tho
Tuileries. blazing in diamonds. what
splendid Jewels" remarked Napolcon;
"are they all real?' "Mon Dieu! sire,
I really don't know, but at any rate
they are quite good enough to wear
here"
Digging up q coffin in order to OBJ.
tain memoirs Of the first Napoleon
That was done though, it is id, for
those of Planat de la Faye, his orderly
officer, which were recently published.
His widow had only three copies of the
memoirs printed, and deposited one in
her husband'r coffin after having it ex-
humed with great trouble. When she
died she left directions that the book
should be printed from the other two
copies, but as they could not be found,
the executors were obliged to take out
and open the coffin again, and it il
from that copy that the book
printed.