The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-09-04
LIBRARY NOTES.

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1.-THE possession Of the manuscript of the
first poem which MIR. Whittier ever publish
ed, leads the Portland, Me-, Transcript to
recall the young poets sensation when he
first saw his production in print. He was
working one day with his uncle, repairing
stone fence, when the postman in passing
tossed him copy Of the journal to which
many weeks before he had sent his poem.
Tremblingly young Whittier opened the
paper, to find the verses at the top of the
first column. He was 80 delighted and be-
wildered that he stood looking at it for
long time, and is sure he did not read
word. At length his uncle called him back
to bis senses by bidding him keep to
work"
"DEAg STANLEY used to tell an anecdote
ola visit to Queen Victoria by Carlyle, In
company with other literary men, at her in
vitation. She started as the subject of con-
versation with him, the probable future of
the second French empire,-a subject on
which Carlyle was greatly at home. Both
were standing when the talk began, and as
he warmed with his subject, the Queen still
remained on her feet. He desired greatly
to sit down, being weary, and finally said to
her: "If your Majesty would be seated we
could carry on the discussion with more
ease" OF course she had never realized his
fatigue, but at once the Queen Of England
and probably tor the first time in her
life as a Queen, took seat at the invita-
ton of subject"
In private we often hear it remarked
how much illness has impro7ed a certain
person. No one can have failed to observe
how, in certain cases, prolonged ill-health
has changed brusque anil self-centered
woman into gentle and sympathizing one,
and has grated on careless and oveIbear-
ing man the virtues of kindness and con-
sideration for others. If this be so, disease
cannot be the unmitigated misfortune that
the healthy are apt to imagine it. If we
consider the whole case, it must be con-
fessed that even i'll health has its sdvant-
ages. Medical Examiner.
Miss EMILY FAITHFUL has some sensible
remarks in the London Echo upon the
''curse of gentility," She says, in her ear
nest, womsnly way, that so far as move
ments for women are concerned, until the
false and contemplate caste ideas, which
have eaten into the very heart of our social
life, are destroyed, all onward progress
must inevitably be regarded, and women,
when forced to work, will encounter diff.
culties from which they might have been
saved, had those who are responsible for
their existence given them an education
which is worthy Of the name. For the
most part they have been hitherto subjected
to a process better described as being dip
ped in thin solution of accomplishments
which will not bear the test of time, and
which will never place them on the first
step of the steep ladder which has to be
mounted before they can gain enough
whereby to live. The shams Of society, the
pretension to seem what one is not, and the
miserable desire ito keep up appearances
are the foes they have to combat,-Interior.
THE portrait of Cleopatra which was ex-
humed at Hadrian's Villa, near Rome, in
1910, Ddo OUCC IlUlt COlllC lulo plOtuiuSuNO
through the efforts of prominent Neapo-
Titan journalist to induce the Italian gov
eminent to purchase it. At one time a
question arose whether the picture, which
is on slate, was true antique or belonged
tc the period of the Renaissance. Chem.
lists were called in and decided that it was
q true encaustic painting, such as Pliny
the younger describes, and that its smooth
ness and transparency were due to the ap-
plication of wax and fire. In 1864 the pic.
ture was in Paris, where it was much dis.
cussed and it is now in Italy again, the
property OF Baron de Benneval at Sorrento
Inc painting IS ascribed to Tbimomatus, a
pupil of APPELLEE, and the Neapolitan jour.
nalist makes out so good case in favor Of
its antiquity that some of our long-pursod
connoisseurs ought to show their Yankee
enterprise by stepping in ahead OF foreign
purchasers and bringing Arthony's friend