The daily Cairo bulletin., 1881-10-23
MEN, WOMEN AND BOOKS.

EDITED IN THE INTEREST or THE CAIRO
PUBLIC LIBRARY.
"GEoRGE BANCROFT, the historian, cele-
brated his eighty-frst birthday last week.
He is living at Newport"
"MIss JEAN INGELow ordered two vol
umes of her poems to be sent to President
Garfield with her kind regards and sym.
pathy, and they we're forwarded to his
widow at Mentor the other day."
king OSCAR, of Sweden, who devotes
his leisure to literary pursuits, has finished
new drama called The Kronburg Castle"
which will be published shortly in Swedish
and German"
"MR. HERBERT SPENCER has recovered
his health, and ii is rumored in London that
the visit to Egypt with which his name
has been associated will result in his mar
gage to an American heiress, whom he
first met at Cairo"
"SIR. A. B. ALcoTT is now, at the age of
eighty-two, engaged in writing his poetical
autobiography, and in adding a new study
to his house at Concord, the old one being
now too small to contain his library. He
will not 90 west next winter, but will oc-
cupy this new study and complete his auto
biography"
"IN HIS lecture on the Reign of the Com.
mon People Rev, Henry Ward Beecher
says New labor, especially manufacturing
industries and commercial industries, are
most powerful educators; they stir up the
brain; they make it nimble, they make it
various; they make it fruitful, and drive
men forward in the way of life"
"EDMuND YATES, an English writer of
some note who was treated with great hos
pitality during recent visit to this country,
is the editor of paper called the World,
published in London. Not long ago in
speaking of certain class of nuisances, the
World said, "they should be avoided like
Americans or Frankfort Jews" We are
proud to state that Mr.. Yates is neither an
American nor n Frankfort Jew He is q
fullblooded Englishman,"
"WHEN Napoleon the First was impris,
oned at ST Helena he developed those lit.
tlenesses of character which until then had
been obscured by the splendor Of his ca
reer. He lretted and fumed the remnant
of his life away in idle and trivial COM
plants The victim of an assumed mon.
strous injustice, he reproached England
with treachery and all people with ingrati.
tude, quareled with his jailers, and alien.
ated his devoted attendants by the as
sumption ofa majesty whose shadow even
no longer remained to him. The man who
had absorbed the attention of the world
and trod its stage as a hero the equal of
Caesar was transformed by misfortune into
pitif,ll hypochondriac, retailing his COM
plants and woes to servants.
Gen. Patterson's will makes this provs-
ion; "That the Washington glasses, now
in my residence at Thirteenth and Locust
streets, Philadelphia, being the same which
were set in the walls Of Gen. Washington's
house upon Market street, and which l
purchased and had reframed, and set up in
my house on Arch street more than fifty
years ago. and thence removed them in the
year 1886 to my present residence, shall
remain where they now are so long as any
of my descendants shall continue to occupy
the said residence Upon the sale Of the
house the glasses are to 80 to his son
Robert, afterward to his grand son Frank,
and then IL is declared ut is my wish
and hope that my said grandson will pro-
vide for the transmission Of the said glass;
es to his own children, If he shall have any,
or to some other Of my descendants, 90 that