The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-01-03
ABOUT FAMOUS PEOPLE.
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land, and paper of that city finds hip.. not the elderly man of the old style expected, but 6 a young and fashionable man of ceurtly be4Eing.' He would pass as a typical Parisian or a fashionable New Yorker. He has finely formed head and face, of rather delicate contour, and bushy mustache, whose ends curl upward. He ;s of medium height and rather slender build, and has the modest but decided bearing of man who re- alizes his own power but does not va mt his attainments. He is no triflsr in art.
 On April 20 I73I. the English vessel RebeCca, Captain Jenkins, is visited by the coastguards of Havana, who accuse the captain of smuggling military goods
 They md none on board, but they in- treat hIm by hanging him first to the yard and fastening the caoin boy to his feet The rope breaks, however, and they then proceed to cut of one of his ears, telling him to take it to his king. JenkiRs returns to London and claims vengeance. Pope writes verses about his ear, but England does not choose to quarrel with Spain just then, and all is apparently forgotten. Eight years after some insults offered by the Spaniards to English vessels brought up again the topic of Jenkins ear. He had preserved it in wauding. The sailors went about London wearing the inscription, E ar for cal" on their hats. The large mer- chants and shipo vners espoused their cause. William Pitt and the nation in general desire war with Spain, and Wal pole is forced to declare it. The con- sequences are but too well known: blood shed all over the world, on land and sea- Jenkins ear is indeed avenged. If the English people were poetical, says Car lyle, this ear would have become con- stellation, like Berenice's Crown.-COs- kemforGry ReviezO.
 "In him." says Lord Malmesbury, of Lord Derby, 1 lose my best friend, and the country a brilliant and accomplished ssatesman." He is as of-hand, and takes great affairs as easily and treats politics as completely as game. as his public performances led people commonly to suppose. Stanley" said Macauley, in I84o, is great debater, but as to every thing else, he is still what he was thirty years ago-a clever boy" So he appears here. Mir. Disraeli somewhere pays a higher compliment to Lord Derby's in- domitable industry. Those who knew Lord Derby's habits smiled at the insin- cerity of the fattery. The breakup of the conference of Vienna, in April, I8ss, was tolerab y serious event in the history of the day. Lord Derby was at New market. He returned to day." said Lord Malmesbury, SO full Of his racing that he could think and talk of nothing else, and knew nothing of the last weeks events and when alluded to our pro- positions at the Vienna conference hav- ing been rejected by Russia, he asked, What propositions ? evidently not hav- ing looked at newspaper for the whole week. Such" he goes on to reflect, "is the character of this remarkable man, who has the habit and power of con centrating his mind upon the subject which occupies him at the moment, and of dismissing irwholly with equal facility. He is very fond of using the expression, tOne thing at time" There are stories in more recent days of ministers, not of Lord Derby's politics, being sum- moned by telegraph from Newmarket or Goodwood to settle the course of great party at ticklish moment. And there is tale of very illustrious leader, in- deed, who, when asked if he had seen some utterance of the utmost moment in the newspapers, replied cheerfully that he had not had time, for he had spent the day iH the library of- college, looking into editions of the "Prayer Book of Edward VI."-Maemillan 5 Magasine.
 Walmer, October I, 1894. We were talking of Lord Nelson, and some in- stances were mentioned of the egotism and vanity that derogated from his char acter. "Whyl' said the duke, "I am not surprised at such instances, for Lord Nelson was, in different circumstances, two quite different men, as myself can vouch, though only saw him once in my life, and for perhaps an hour. It was soon after returned from India. went to the Colonial office in Downing street, and there was shown into the little waiting room on the right hand, where found also waiting to see the secretary of state a gentleman whom, from his likeness to his pictures and loss of one arm, inn mediately recognized as Lord Nelson. He could not know who l was, but he entered at once into a conversation with me-if can call it a conversation, for it was almost all on his side and all about himself and in really a style so vain and so silly as to surprise and almost disgust me. suppose something that hap pened to say may have made him guess that was somebody, and he went out of the room for moment, have no doubt, to ask the ofice-keeper who l was, for when he came back he was altogether a different man, both in manner and mat ter. All that thought charlatan style had vanished, and he talked of the state of this country and of the aspect and probabilities of affairs on the continent, with good sense and knowledge of sub- jects both at home and abroad that sur prised me equally, and more agreeably than the first part of our interview had done; in fact, he talked like an officer and statesman. The secretary of state kept us long waiting, and certainly for the last half or three-quarters of an hour