St. Landry democrat., 1880-01-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

translation of his letters promised by
St, Petersburg firm.
-Ruskin refused $500 from Scribner
for short Article on the church of St.
Mark, and Browning, the poet, stuck up
his nose at $1,000 which accompanied
the same proposition. +.
Rosa Bonheur has just bought a
magnificent lion from the Geological
Garden at Marseilles, at the price of
5000 francs, and is painting its portrait
for next years Salon.
The late John 7. Delanc, for SO
many years the editor-in-chief OF the
London Times, scarcely ever wrote a
line for the paper himself, but used
other writers as most men use a pen.
-kinglake, the historian, is a lawyer
as well as the heir to large property.
He has all his life long studied plans of
battle in war, and he rode beside Rag
Ian in the Crimea. He is very slow,
conscientious and patient in his work.
Miss Lillian Whiting, on the editorial
staff of the Cincinnati Commercial, stays
at her post until II o'clock at nj ght.
She is said to look the picture of strong,
healthy, fresh, young life, and has
proven by her work that woman can
do well on a daily paper.
Mrs. NJ. X. A. Brackley, writer of
some note and well known in the Epis-
cOpal Church as an earnest advocate of
woman's recognition in church work,
and identified with the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with
the temperance movement and woman's
suffrage, died in New York few days
ago. Mrs. Brackley left her remains to
the Women's Medical College of New
York for dissection.
Miss Braddon- James Max
well, the wife of the publisher of that
name-is stout tlorid woman of per-
haps 40 years. Her reddish fair hair is
worn in curls over her forehead; her
eyes are blue; her mouth somewhat
large and smiling. Altogether, she is
II woman of comfortable embonpoint,
and easy, good-natured manners, look
ing much more like the ordinary, COM
monplace matron of the middle classes
than the imaginative weaver of so many
dark plots and startling utterances
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes hit the.
nail on the head the other day when, to
a young man who had applied to him
for a position as amanuensis, he replied:
81 have no writing to do which | am
not competent to do myself with little"
9 occasional aid from members of my own
family l regret MOTTO be able to give
yo,, encouragement as to employment
in Boston, but the truth is there is next
to none of the kind you mention, most
of our authors being as poor as
rats themselves and no more able to
keep an amanuensis than they are able
to set up a coach and SIX
School and Church.
Mr.. Farnhain.s Sunday school in
Shanghai, China, has 10 scholars.
The Sunday-school Association of
France has decided to adopt the Inter-
national scheme of Sunday-schoo les
sons. - i
Virginia has 675 colored schools
taught by Ais colored teachers. The
male teachers salary averages $50
a month, the females 1928.
The French Assembly has voted
$4,000, 900 francs-2,OO0, 900 more than
asked-for education, against 26,0oO,-
900 in 1870, and 100000 in 1851.
The grant includes $4,000 travelling
expenses for explorers. ~a
"A Mussulman priest has been SEN
fenced to death for assisting to translate
the Bible into the Turkish language.
The British ambassador has demanded
the priests release. It is believed Ger
many will support the demand.
Lane Theological Seminary pres
byterian) at Cincinnati, celebrated it's
tittieth anniversary on the 18th Of De-
cember, when fine new building of
blue limestone was dedicated, and the
Rev. DR.. James Eells was installed as
a Professor.
According to statistics, up to July
last the Methodist Episcopal Church had
90 annual conferences, II, 453. itinerant
preachers, and 1,696,S37 members and
and probationers. Since the organiza-
ton of the church 444 presiding elders
and 634,967 members have died.
According to DR.. Dollinger, the
Mohammedan religion is making good
Roadway. There have been great num-
bers of conversions in CHINA single |
Moslem college at Sierra Leone is about
to send out 1000 teachers among the
African tribes-ard among the Malays
the converts are literally reckoned by
millions. al rid
The English literature prize of 500,
offered to the seniors at Yale College
for therbest examination in English lit
erature, with special reference to poetry
of the Elisabethan era, has been awal d.
ed to William Logan Crosby, of La
Crosse, Wis, and second prize has
been awarded to Theodore Mount Peck,
of Marketable, Conn.
A committee Of the Park Street
Church, Boston, reported lately that it
had made patient investigation among
the converts of the recent revival meet
ings of that city, and found a marked
falling from grace among those who
had been most earnest in religious pro-
LESSONS year ago. The Rev. DR..
Withrow, in reading the report from his
pulpit, said that with few exceptions the
converts had relapsed into condition
worse than that in which they were
previous to their professed change of
heart.
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