St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-01-25
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAl

-Pliny says that special perfumes
not allowed to any but the members Of
the royal family were prepared for the
Roman emperora
-Hippocrates is said to have greatly
allayed the violence of the plague ut
Athens by liberal use of perfume in
the streets and houses
Mime Pompadour, whose head.
dress has given name to well-known
style of wearing the hair, spent one
hundred thousand francs year on per-
fumes and pomatums.
An actual case of death from a bro
ken heart is reported from Hoxton,
near London. A cabdriver's wife, after
laughing hilariously, suddenly fell tc
the floor limp and lifeless. A post NOR
tenn examination showed her heart,
either from excitement or too heavy .
dinner, had literally burst in two.
Gen. r. ]. Baumgartner, c. b, who
died in England the other day in his
eighty-second year, saw . good deal of
service in India under Sir Charles
Napier. He was present as an ensign
of the Twenty-eighth foot at the bat
tie of Meanee and at the fall Of Hyder.
abad. He also served in the Crimean
campaign, being in the battles of Alma
and Inkerman, and at the siege OF Sc.
bastopol, where he was wounded.
Sister Mary Regis, nun in tho
YouQhal convent, county Cork, who
died recently. was famous designer
of Irish lace, her patterns having made
the Youghal point lace known
throughout the United Kingdom. She
made the lace fan presented by Lord
Houghton to the duchess of York, and
. lace Aounce, still kept in the con.
vent, which was to have been present
ed to the same lady on her marriage
to the late duke of Clarence.
Lady Margaret Scott the woman
champion golf player of England. on
the occasion of the Cotswold competi-
ton won tho first prize with q score of
eighty for fourteen holes There were
ten other players, to whom Lady Mar.
garet conceded starts to the extent OF
as many as sixty strokes The scores
next below the champion were 91-6-s5
and le6-40-sG Playing in foursome
COu4pCNASiOu A<Ouy AuoEkoASe 0VOss OAO
Mr.. Goodeve scored s3-4-7o.
~ shall be very much surprised II
Mr.. John d. Rockefeller builds. as re-
ported. q magnificent mansion," said q
man who knows him. If he does il
will be the first sign of q taste for dis
play that he has ever given. He is
modest and quiet in all his ways, his
dress, his mode Of travelling and in
every way; in fact, beyond having
made grand gifts of money for educa-
tional purposes, he has never allowed
his money to attract attention. He is
typical Baptist, and that church is .
very democratic society"
There are six women, according to
the reckoning of New York newspa-
per, who possess in the aggregate
S3O5, ,00O. 900. The women and their re-
spectivc fortunes are as follows: Sonora
Isidora Cousino, of Chilli, 5000, O00, 900;
Mrs Hetty Green, Of New York, &5O.-
600, coo; baroness Burdett-C Coutts, of
England, sec. 0O0. 600; Mme. Barrios, of
Spain, SIS, ,OO0. 600; Mrs Mary Garrett,
of Baltimore, Nd. $40. 000. 900; Mime.
Waleska, of Russia, 10000, 600 The
six richest men, whose fortunes aggre-
gate 81. OS0. 0Oo, 600. are Ii Hung Chang,
John d. Rockefeller. Col. North, the
duke Of Westminster, Cornelius Van
derbilt and Woh Qua, the Chinese tea
ma1nate,