Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-22
THINGS INTERESTING.

Mrs. Langtry, who has become a pub
lie reciter frequently receives as much
as $500 for an evenings performance.
Vicomtesse Houssaye, whose salon is
one of the most highly esteemed in Paris
by men of intellectual distinction, was
formerly an American girl, Miss Ritter
of California.
Madame Modjeska is not dependent-an
the stage for support. Her beautiful
estate in California, where she has gone
to regain her health, comprises 600 acres,
including a large and prosperous vine
yard.
Mckinley organs are expatiating with
much gusto on the report that Governor
Morton has concluded that his presi-
Dental candidacy is only pressed by the
politicians in order to give them chance
to tap his pocket.
Lady Mary Hamilton-Douglas is only
II years old, but she is one of the great
est heiresses in the world. She is the
daughter of the late Duke of Hamilton
and received from him her large fortune,
affording her an income of about 100000
a year.
Ex-Congressman Harter, who commit
ted suicide, once described himself as "a
Jeffersonian whose influence politically
is conservative, for safe measures and
against radical. unsound, meddlesome
legislation; quiet man in manners,
p1ain man in dress and a studiouS man
by habit"
Anyone more simple in habits or meth
DDS than the president of the French re
public. M Faure, could not be imagined.
He lives at home in the simplest style,
and the other day he apologized for be
ing late at a brilliant assemblage at MS
own house. giving as his excuse that so
late at night the buses were all crowded.
A wear ago Mr.. John Jacob Astor adj
mitted his possession of personal prop
erty to the value, for taxing purposes, OF
80 zoo 600 This year he takes his solemn
oath that he is reduced to $3.50, 900 worth
of personal property. Some curiosity IS
exrressed in New York to know what he
has done with it.
Mark Twain told a Bombay reporter
that his memory sometimes completeiy
deserts him when he is on the platform.
He is apt to forget the point OF tne stoi
he happens to be telling, and to avoid q
catastrophe he dovetails another anec-
dote into the incomplete one and smooths
over the break as best he can.
Tolstoi defends his proposition that
natriotism Is wrong. He declares IL 10 pe
unrea sonable in principle TO rove one
own nation above all others. PATRIOTISM,
ba maintains. is counter to the first prin-
cinles of Chrst's teaching. and that
Christianity makes patriotism super
huous and a hindrance, like lamp III
daylight. Mall
M Astor's new editor for his Pail Mall
Gazette. Sir Douglas Straight, Went
from a London law office to INDIA wn ei,
he became a Judge, returned win PEI
L., aud a lxnighthood In one OF the III IL
81 81, arders He Is between so ana oo
ula n1.s old His journalistic experience
| hitherto seems to have been niue Lo. "a.
don evening paper shortly aiteI ne ~ ie -,
| Harrow school, more IMAM 'n'i
ago. ,o,, nren,ier of
| o 81 drank too much wine at pan
| o,at and made wandering 80,
hitch an indscreet stenoeraphei 80
| IN full Tear that up, salu .ne - ,,,a,,,n
ta,selv. when the manuscript was ..NJ"n,
, .ei ~. revision. Then he added NOW
| MN lot al, Won what I did say" and he
i WI, an excellent address. Dung
oo, ,, ha observed dryly, as the stehos-
MAJ was going. :" let me give you some
ad,,ice. never try to report STATESMAN
when you're drunk"
During a recent tour made by rresl-
dent Kruger of the 1raHsEaai o.,tad q
ot ana nlace a leading burgher wanted .
d. on education law. The presl-
I'm i, si,,,niv would not hear to II. NO
uei m he curtly replied. that is churcn
nuestiea, not political one put,
urged another burgher, why cou'o th w.
not have compulsory eauee''p rnn, d the
urosident "education is compulsory IN
ptSsr countries, but so is military service
This is a republic, and people may keeL
LIS nis children in ignorance If they
please" ,rono,a cum
The Vicksburg Commercial-Heraia SUP
niles the following interesting l E
pance. "The Italian colony at sunny
Side Side in Arkansas, is to be increased o., bs
the addition Of forty families, now on tee
rnnte from Genoa. This Will raise the
total above 1000 ASsIln co.'s
bay,ng route surveyed for railroad
from Sunny side to the Missouri paoinc
railroad. This is an old scheme. hereto
fore designed to connect the Missouri Pa
cific with the Georgia Pacific and the rail-
road systems east of the river. It's Sig
nificance at this time lies in the inqlca-
ton that Mr. Corbin designs decided en-
largement of his Sunny Side enterprise;
that he is not attracting emigrants TO
that point for the mere purpose of selling
out If his italian colonists succeed in
making themselves contented and COM
Portable they will prove nucleus for a
large, perhaps very large, community"
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