The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-04-11
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAl

Cicero had very thin face, which
,orresponded exactly to his long atten-
uated body. He kept himself thin by
a system of dieting, or rather of starv-
ling, himself, on the theory that all
bodily ailments were caused hv too
| II Gcn eating, and so, on every trifling
lindisposition, he tasted from twenty
four to forty weight hours
"A Brooklyn man hurt his right
hand on an elevated railroad car by
the brakeman closing a gate upon it.
He brought suit for damages. Meet
| ing a friend, the latter noticed that the
injured man extended his left hand,
and asked the reason. The answer
was, ''Oh, can't shake hands with my
right until | win my suit"
Louis XVI. had very heavy, red,
sensual face, with large Roman noAs,
full cheeks and lips and double chin.
There was no trace of more than ordi-
nary intellect, either in his face or
conversation, the latter being always
commonplace, often dull. He gave his
contemporaries the impression of a
man who habitually ate and drank
more than was good for him.
When he was at Elton, the duke of
Westminster was known az Jack
| Sheppard, and for this nickname his
mother was responsible. The duke.
then Lord Belgrave, was a small, thin
boy, with sharp figure and sharp
face. Lady Westminster had caused
his hair to be closely cropped after the
French fashion, SO that he was the
very living image of Cruikshank' 5
pictures of Jack Sheppard in Aims.
worth's famehs novel.
Some years ago Frederick Douglass
addressed a convention of negroes in
Louisville, says the Buffalo Courier
He said in the course of his remarks
that he did not think an amalgamation
of the white and black races desirable,
the pure negro being, in his opinion,
the best of the race. While speaking,
his eyeglasses continued to slide from
their perch. But l WISH" interpo,
lated the speaker, II wish that we
could get up some sort of an alloy for
the negro which would insure a nose
capable of holding spectacles."
Once when Cardinal Manning was
preaching in Rome he recognized JohL
Bright among his listeners. On the in
slant he determined to preach TO him
and dwelt with as much force and eff
| feet as he could on the claims of the
| Blessed Virgin to our veneration. Two
| or three years later he met him and re-
! minded him Of this incident Il re-
member it perfectly" said John, ''and
| shall never forget it. was delight,
ed with everything that morning.
! gratified smile came on the cardinals
| face-''eXcep5ing your sermon"
On the authority of Mile. De Les
cure, who hard it from the heroine's
own lips, writer in the Guardian tells
the true story of Mile De Sombreuil's
saving her father's life from the gull.
lotipe. NJ. De Sombreuil and his
( daughter were condemned to death at
the time of the September massacre.
and were waiting in the cart, surround
ed BY the mob, for their turn to mount
the scaffold. Mile. De Sombreuil turned
to the crowd and asked what harm a
weak old man like her father could do
to the nation. Some of the men an
swered that if she would drink a glass
of blood to the nation they would let
him go, and passed up glass. Sh~
drank it down Immediately. The
crowd took her and her father from
the cart; they escaped and made their
way to England. She thought at the
time that she drank blood but after
ward she concluded that it was red
wine, for she saw no one stoop to fill
the glass To her death she was never
able, however, to see red wine in a
glass without shudder.