St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-03-23
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs. Jefferson Davis has just OBJ
tanned possession Of her deceased hus-
bands memoirs as q result of set
with publishers, and hopes to soon Sc
cure the sheet and plates of his '.Short
History Of the Confederacy."
S. Kurino. japanese minister ut
Washington, is an able, courteous
diplomat, and speaks English fluently.
He has made many friends since he
is quite a social lion at present.
BY the death recently of Mrs. G. Il.
Hyde the city of Boston comes into
the possession of a bequest of $4,000,
to be used for the creation of a statue,
pedestal and foundation included, to
Rufus Choate. the famous lawyer.
MIR. S. r. Crockett is accused by
writer in the Academy of gross plagiar-
ism in his Raiders" The parallel
column is used to show what he has
taken from a volume of Historical and
Traditional Tales from the South of
Scotland" published in 1s43.
Mrs. Oscar Wilde, when Browning
was calling on her at one of her Sun.
day afternoons, asked him to write
something in her autograph album,
wherein many famous people had writ
ten. with pleasure" Ssaid Browning,
and wrote: From a poet to n poem"
Marriage" says Cecil Rhoades,
the millionaire diamond mine owner
and political leader of South Africa.
''spoils a mans or a woman's career,
because it destroys singleness of aim"
He is consistent, at least, for he re-
mains bachelor, and will have none
but unmarried men about him.
Henry Il. Pomeroy, who died re-
Gently at the city hospital in Indian
apolis, was the personal friend of three
presidents. He was a neighbor of Lin
coin, companion of Grant and close
acquaintance of Arthur. He had been
a newspaper writer and an inventor,
but hard times and ill-luck sent both
himself and wife to the poorhouse.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes asks
that any persons having letters of DIR.
Holmes will send them to Houghton,
Miffiin & Co., with reference to their
possible use in a contemplated life and
letters of DIR. Holmes. These letters
will be carefully returned to their
owners after copies have been made of
such of them as are found to be avail
able.
The modern literary man is apt to
be a cosmopolite. After many wan
behring's Robert Louis Stevenson dies in
Samoa. Kipling has been n great
globe-trotter. Bret Harte, Marion
Crawford and Henry James are prac-
tically denationalized. Julian Haw-
thorne. after much travel, has settled
down in Jamaica. Stanley J. Weyman
has wandered over Europe afoot. Conan
Doyle has travelled much and is plan
ming further globe-trotting.
Had Naval Constructor Lewis
Nixon chosen to stay in the navy he
might have hoped for salary of four
after twenty years service, and retire
ment on half pay at the age of sixty
two. His pay at the Cramp yards is
probably double what his utmost hope
promised in the navy, and if his new
business venture succeeds he may be-
come n millionaire. Yet the officers of
the navy, who have an old-fashioned
pride in their profession, do not per-
nit themselves envy the lot of those
who go out of the service to become
rich ad distinguished in civil life.
Line officers in particular often hold
that no civil success can confer the
distinction that attaches to high naval
rank.