The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-02
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-Henfy Somerset. the son Iof Lady
Henry Somerset. viii devote his spare
tune while svinterfng 1t Boston tocom-
pleting his book, Gin which he will
describe his recent explorations in the
Hudson boy territories.
William Cullen Bryant began to
write verse when he was only ten years
nine-pennyco coin from his grandfather
for . rhymed version of the first
chapter of the book of Job.
-Hrandin. the pedestrian and Paris
IAN journalist, who last year went on
foot from New York to Chicago, has
for the last four months been tramping
over Algeria. Tunis and the extreme
south ofthe Barbary states.
Miss Doh Readc Goodale, the poet
of the BERKSHIRE hills, whose sister
Elaine married DIR. Eastman, Dakota
Indian, few years ago, is engaged tc
be married to Prof. Thomas Sanford,
OF the University of California.
In the valedictory of the Newark
N. J) Morning Times, which suspend
ed recently. Thomas c. Barr observes
chat all he has to show for his invest
nent of $500, 600 are copies of the first
ind last issues which he will preserve
as mementoes.
-Kipling, Barrie, Jerome, Howells,
stockton, Stedman, Mark Twain. bret
Harte, Boyesen, Saltus. Ore none OF
Them above medium height, and sew
eral of them are actually diminutive.
Marion Crawford and Conan Doyle are
tall. athletic-looking men, but they
are the exceptions that prove the rule.
Thomas Foster, who has just been
sentenced ct London to three years
penal serEitude for q number of petty
frauds, was the originator of the .tmiss-
ing word" craze, of which newspapers
all over the country some time ago
availed themselves to boom circula ton.
He has been living on his wits for
years.
Paintings and designs by Bartram
Hiles, an armless artist, Re now on
exhibition in London. M Hiles lost
his arms, close to the shoulder, when
a child. by being run over by a horse
car, and is obliged to paint holding
the brush between his lips. He won,
nevertheless. in open competition, the
national scholarship of five hundred
dollars year at south Kensington. and
at the same time obtained first prize
for modelling in clay. He paints land
scape.
-Rubinstein had probably travelled
more than any other virtuoso. In his
time he made many fortunes, and gave
them away to the poor in Russia. Dur
ing the famine which ragged umong the
Russian peasants n few years ago, he
1ourneyed to Vienna, Moscow and ST.
Petersburg to play for charity. The
price of seats rose to llnheard-of fig
nres. but every penny of the money
went to the starving farmers. 1t is
said that in the course of twenty-eight
years the sum which he thus disposed
Of amounted to $3.50. 600.
The former teacher ,of the present |
czarina says that she was brought up |
almost entirely as an English girl, de. |
spite her German birth. The family |
spoke English exclusively, their plays |
were English and the governess of the
princess was English. Her German is |
spoken with n foreign nc
cent. The teacher thinks the princess
will make an excellent wife for the
gar, and one who will never bother
lerself about politics. She has no in
crest. he says. in politics, and was not
'tlucated to have any interest in it.
She was brought up, in fact, us the
laughter of u family of the middle
lass.