Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-01-29

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a toad, and he could see little in her but
an aptness for grimaees, for mounting,
and for posturing. Tourgeneff never
would have become famous as an artist
were his portrayals in general charac-
terized by 50 little sense of proportion.
| Princess Beatrice, whose marriage to
Prince Henry, of Battenberg. is soon to
/ take place, writes literary trifles. She
composes- she wrote wedding march
lately. She paints; and her drawings
of the landscapes around Aix-les- Bains
were published some years ago. She
has a kindly vita great desire to please,
and pride which never apes humility.
She knows all the details of household
management.
A fine hound which had been sent to
| a citizen Of Gordon, GA, week or so
| ago, returned to its former hon. in
Eastpoint within thirty-sx hours after
its departure, having Travelled the en-
tire distance, about 12S miles, thu ough
a country it had never been through,
and with no one to guide it. The dog
was boxed up before it was shipped to
its new owner. and for portion of the
journey was kept in dark car.
Sir Moses Monte6orc, of whom we
have recently read so much, had al
ways the keenest sense of honor Many
years ago, owing to circumstances over
which he had no control, he failed in
business. Having subsequently made
money, he called together all his credi-
tors, and presented them with the
amounts due to them, with interest at
the rate of 5 per cent, calculated from
the day on which the debt was in
Cured.
The fan painters of Japan are an es-
pecial separate guild, as distinct from
artists in other branches as with us the
scene painter Is from the portrait
painter. The unknowing American
looking at japanese fan sees nothing
in it but upon one side grotesque rep
resentation of the tea-box order, and
upon the other few crude splashes of
ink But to the citizen of Toxic or
Osaka, each fan carries special signi-
tication-a story, or part of a story; an
allusion, satire, or suggestive idea.
Madame Ristori comes back to
America with all her old fire and
ambition. but both she and we have
changed. She is older, and, as is al
ways the case at her time of life, the
means of expression are fewer and less
subtle. Besides, she has to contend
with language not her own. As for
us Americans, our histrionIc idea has
become higher, especially of late years,
| and through such work as Mr.. Irvings
We care less for the classics too. But
Ristori's fame was justly earned, and is
secure
Mr.. Gladstone is prowler. He
loves back streets. 1t is no unusual
thing to see him looking in the win
dows of a bric-a-brac. store. Summer
days he often strolls from Parliament
to his house in Harley street, an in
terested spectator of all that is going
on around him. He is not well dressed
His trousers are generally baggy at the
knee. His tall collars are always fami-
liar in caricatures. He. rarely buys
new hat. He has strong, hard, bon
face, powerful forehead, a character
istIc nose, a firm mouth Ca little too
hard in its lnes). He would strike the
most ordinary observer as man of
great intellectual physique.
An unsecmly family quarrel is report
ed to exist in the British royal family.
Neither the Prince of Wales nor the
Duke of Edinburgh congratulated Prince
Henry of Battenberg or Princess Beat
rice on their engagement, and they are
said to be disguised at the match.
The Queen has refused to 60 to Sand
bingham because the Prince of Wales
insisted on having dancing. To this
she was opposed on account of the
Duke of Albany's death. Princess
Beatrice also refused to go, bnt for an
other reason--she was in the sulks over
the neglect of Prince Henry, who was
not invited, and would not have gone
even if her mother had given her per-
mission.
At lis highest stage Great Salt Lake
covered about $4,000 square miles of
surface, and the present body of water
has barely 5000 The water is generally
supposed to have disappeared by eva
poration, or, in plain terms, an APP
proximate evaporation has occurred of
about | l6 cubic miles of water. If the
lake lowered at the average rate of one
hundredth part of an inch per year
(and that suppo ses IN evaporation of
l 100000 cubic feet annually then it
was at its greatest height POO 900
years ago. If the evaporation continues
in the future as it has in the past in
1000 years there will be nothing but
thin sheet of water during each spring
where Great Salt Lake now is. j
Sarah Bernhardt told an interviewer
who inquired what progress she was
making with her role in NJ. Sardou's
new piece that she never studies the |
parts for which she is cast in a regular
methodical manner. She works at all
times; when she is dressing, when she is
taking rive-especlally when she is
taking a drive. In going to aud coming
from the theatre she thinks over the |
part 1t is at rehearSals that she makes |
most way. She has the greatest conf
dence in the judgment of her comrades, |
and she invariably takes their opinion |
on her mode of her rendering a bit about |
which she has any doubt. When they |
say mo it is no: quite that, !" she begins !
again. and keeps on trying till she sat
isles them. No one knows. she says,
what energy and passion she brings to
the study of her roles.