The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-07-20
PERSONAL AND IMpERsonAl'

Isaac Watts Thought the world con-
tanned no fner reading than the Psalms
Of David. He paraphrased many It not
most of them in English verse.
Sir Joshua Reynolds greatly en-
joyed the old English plays He said
they contained moro real merit than
all other English literature combined.
-Petrarch wore his HAIR in long curls
and describes himself d turning .
corner with great caution on windy
day lest the breeze should disarrange
his locks.
Frederick Bonner, of the New York
Ledger, and Henry E. Abbey. the the
atrical manager, were each fined SOD
by Justice Laurence, of the New York
supreme court, for failure to do jury
duty.
| Charles /. Of England was curt In
speaking to the gentlemen of his court
and to the common people he was
never known to speak at ALL His per-
sonalunpopularity had much to do with
his downfall.
| George Latimer, whose rescue
from slavery in 1s4e is national re-
membrance, is still living in Lynn,
Mass, but is in such poor circum-
stances that the people of Boston are
raising fund for him.
Gen. Iartinez Campos, who has
been sent over from Spain to su bdue
the Cuban insurrection, is sixty-one
years old He has been an officer for
nearly forty years and during half that
time the first soldier of Spain.
MIR. John r. Wilson, of Salt Lake
City, has secured piece of the Charter
Oak tree of Hartford, which will be
made into q table, on which it is pro-
posed to have the governor sign the
first bill passed by the Utah legisla-
| ture.
| -Myron j. Whitney, of Syracuse, N.
Y, has filed claim against the state
board of claims, in which he asks for
| 81, 800, 900, or $1,000 a day for the 264
days during which he was confined
without due process of law in the state
insane asylum.
On the field of Waterloo topaz
seal, set in gold was recently found,
| bearing the arms and motto of Wis
count Darlington. 1t belonged to En-
sign harrington, who was killed at
Quatre Bras, June is, 1915, and had
lain undiscovered for nearly eighty
years
The Princess Mercedes, of Spain,
now in her thirteenth year, enjoys the
distinction of being the only ex-queen
of her age in the world. She was queen
of Spain during the six months after
the death of her father, Alfonso Kill,
and before the birth other brother, the
present king.
-Ex-Capt. Dreyfus has arrived in the
penal colony of Cayenne and is in
termed on DEVILS island. He Is al
he cannot leave without running the
risk of being fred at by his warders,
who, six in number, watch him care
fully both night and day.
Felix Faure, president of France,
can give Emperor William as good as
he sends. 1.-THE French army" said NJ.
Faure, recently. lis the safeguard and
the hope of the country, the constant
object of the solicitude of the govern
ment of the republic. It can. under
all circumstances, reckon on the affec-
tionate attention of the president of
the republic"
Lieut.. Charles Clark Jameson, of
the Fifteenth infantry, stationed at
Fort Sheridan, has received the coveted
prize of a transfer to the ordnance de-
partment Of the army as first lieutcn-
ant This officer made reputation
for himself during the strike last year
at Chicago by taking his place on the
pilot of locomotive and forcing his
way through the blockade with his
men.