The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-09-14
'PERsoNAL, AND AtTERARv.

-Tennyson's mother was always re-
garded by him as q model for all other
mothers. He once said: ''The training
of child is wonan's wisdom" f'a}
Capt William Penn stednan. who
is employed. iii the agricultural depart
ment ut Washirgton, asserts that he
was the real captor of Jefferson Davis
at Irwinstil1e, Ca. May TO-. 1853. -,
George Eliot's portrait Representa-
her as having as remarkably uhprepos-
sessinE face, with heavy nose and chin.
and thick, badiy-shaped lips She
would be pronounced positively ugly
: John Chrysostom often spoke of
the tenderness of his mother. and quite
as often of her beauty. He believed
that the e1oquence whic], gave him 40
wide reputation was inherited from
her. s .tsf
Gathering 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, a 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. MIR. Sturtevant needed the horse
in his delivery. wagon. SO he let him,
have the horse, and wheeled his gro
ceries about town on a wheclbarrow,
going i'll some cases as much AS mile.
--t;en. Sam Browne, as he is famil-
tally known, is one of the few me~s
who took II prominen nj part in the stir
ring events in the early history of Col
orado. He was born May, 12, 1892. in
I'ennsylvania. near the battle field Of
Antietam. While n captain in tho reg.
ular army he resigned and was appoint
ed assistant registrar of the United
States treasury. -. .i=-.sr
-Victorien 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 a garnet,
| slowly wasting away with Typhoid
fever, when Il 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 tho
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 houses: xviii
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
a. Job, but IL he id if I vote for any
man while there are many deserv-
| ing and charming young women look
| ing for position of the kind" The
| woman took the hint, set the repre-
sentative right and received the APP
poin mcnt.
| Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, of Boston,
by turns abolitionist, woman snffrag-
! list, patriotic poet, prose writer and
philanthropist, is. perhaps, most prom
inently regarded by the women of
America as the STA nchest sort of an adj
vocate of the formation of womcn's
clubs. 81 think these clubs have ac-
complished vast amount of good,
she said recently. ''rhey have had a
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 is
exclusively feminine would be sur.
prised to learn the number of good,
serious ideas that one usually gains
by an a afternoons attendance on them. "