The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-21
PERSONAL AND LlTERARv.


--Tennyson's mother was always re-
rarded by him as q model for all other
mothers. He once said; THE training
of child is woman's wisdom.
Capt William Penn Stedman, who
is employed in the agricultural depart
ment ut Washington, asserts that he
was the real captor of Jefferson Davis
at Irwinsville, Ga, May 10, 1865.
George Eliots portrait representa-
her as having remarkably unprepos-
sessing face, with heavy nose and chin.
and thick, badly-shaped lips. She
would be pronounced positively ugly.
John Chrysostom often spoke Of
the tenderness Of his mother. and quits
as often of her beauty. He believed
that the eloquence which gave him so
wide reputation was inherited from
her.
-Catharine OF Braganza, queen Of
Charles H.. was singularly gifted, both
in person and intellect, but in spite Of
her beauty and her good sense, she
was never able to win the love Of her
dissolute husband.
byron Sturtevant. grocer OF Port
Clyde, Me-, is said to be the most oblig-
ing man in Maine. Recently one OF
his neighbors wanted his horse for the
day, Mr.. Sturtevant needed the horse
in his delivery wagon, SO he let him
have the horse, and wheeled his gro
ceries about town on wheclbarrow,
going in some cases as much as a mile.
lien. Sam Browne, as he is famil-
ihlly known. Is one of the few me-.
who took prominent part in the STIR
ring events in the early history OF Col
orado. He was born May IL, 1892, in
Pennsylvania. near the battlefield OF
Antietam. While captain in the reg
ular army he resigned and was appoint
ed assistant registrar OF the United
States treasury.
--Victoriep Sardou, the French play
wright. was on the verge OF starva'
ton, actual death staring him in the
face, when he made his first success.
His recovery was due to the lady who
is now his wife. He lay in d garnet.
slowly wasting away with typhoid
fever. when a poor actress living in the
same building took pity upon him,
nursed him back tolife, and afterward
introduced him to the theaterical
world.
When Will Allen Dromgoolc, the
southern novelist, applied for the
place of engrossing clerk in the Ten.
nessee house of representatives sew
eral years ago she signed her applica
ton to a member of the house: "Will
Allen Dromgoole." The answer she
received ran as follows: Dear Bill
/ got your letter all right and would
like the best in the world to give you
job, but IL he DID if vote for any
man whilGHlfere are SO many descrv.
ing ana charming young women look.
.hg Tor position of the kind" The
wonIa99-s6ck the hint, set the repre-
Sentative right and received the ap-
poin ment.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, OF Boston,
by turns abolitionist, woman suffrag-
list. patriotic poet, prose writer and
philanthropist, is, perhaps, most prom
inently regarded by the women Of
America as the sranchesi sort of an ad
vocate of the formation of women's
clubs. ~ think these clubs have ac
complished . vast amount of good,
she said recently. ''They have had 9
wonderful educational value in broad
ening and quickening the opportuni
ties of women to gain knowledge
Persons unfamiliar with the inside
history of clubs whose membership ]!
Exclusively feminine would be sur
prised to learn the number of good
serious ideas that one usually gains
by an afternoons attendance on them.