The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-03-28
DISTINGUISHED PERSONS.

DISTINGUISHED PERSONS. ECompiled by the San Franciscan.l
 any of my writings" saif the late NJ. Ed mond About, if come to a sentence, or even a word, which should not like my daughters to read, at once strike it out" The elder Dumas used to main tain that some of his works were fit read for his wife, but not for his daughters.
 President Cleveland is constantly re- ceiving letters from cranks" of various sorts, and the development of this species of lunatcs is matter with which most high officials are conversant long before the newspapers get hold of individual cases. "Once in four years" he said, re. gently, five hundred thousand people set to writing letters, and this time l am getting them."
 While going through the Tuileries after the Empress Eugenie's precipitate flight to England. Count Herisson found on her desk the following dispatch: "To the emperor: Do not think of returning here unless you wish to unch ain terrible revolution. This is the opinion of Reu- her and Chevreau, whom l saw to-day. It would be said that you fled from dam ger. Don't forget how Prince Napoleon $ departure from the Crimean army has weighed against him all his life.- Eugenie." The emperor did not disre- gard his wife's advice.
 John Bright, now seventy-four years old, delivered at Birmingham on the 20 h of January one of the most eloquent speeches of his life. He regretted that farmers in the United States are not per mitted to exchange their products with artisans of that city or weavers of Lanca- shire, but are compelled to exchange with protected manufacturers in their own country, who in some cases do not give half of what the farmers could get from the Lancashire or Birmingham manutac- turers. He strongly denounced war as a means of settling international controver- sies. During Queen Victoria's reign, he said, Eugland's wars had cost her S75o,- GOO ooo and the lives of oS 900 men.
 A leve-letter ofthe seventeenth century, preserved among the MSS of the British museum, is as follows: "Deare Heart, l am heartilie sorry that some occasions have hindered mee from coming to see you all this while desire you to i'm pute Try absence notto want of love but leasure & beseech you to bee assured that there lives not more constant, faith full and affec.ionate lover uppon the face of the whole earth than l am, of your most worthie selfe, whose vertue & beauty is such that 1 haue uerie good cauvse to fn hAlaityA fhArA 1i.tAe ca(onA fn he paralelrd to you. l haue sent you a small token, wch I desire you to accept of; I haue allsoe sent you copie of uerses, made by him why is The admirer & adorer of your divine beauje; HenUe Oxinden. Barham: Feb: 26: I64I. AnO Gkat: kae, r."
 Richard T. Ely's striking article upon the city of Pullman in the current num- Der of HayPer's Magagine evokes, as was to be expected, criticism from various points of view. The conclusion that all the practical advantages a benevolent despot could confer upon his people are dear at the price of even benevolent despotism is that to which most thought full Americans must come. 1t would be great pity, however, if this conclusion WCtC IO uCsCf tiCH LnCu HOth dA dCkuOWi- edgement of the social responsibility en- tailed upon them by wealth. One cor respondent writes "Before going to Pullman thought it a city of homes after living there a year l thought a city without a home would be a more appropriate appellation. Your article does no injustice more might be said. It is indeed beautiful city, but better a dinner of herbs.'"
 John Bright to his constituents "Csst your eyes back for a moment on the reign of the queen. Do you imagine the reign of the queen is remarkably reign of peace, and that heaven should be thanked for the long peace we have en- joyei2 How much peace have you en Ijsyed7 A great many other people, at your cost, have not enjoyed 1t. Three wars with China, the most peaceful em- pire in the world war with Burmah I know not how many wars with South Africa, even before the Zulu war; a war in Crimea of the greatest proportions ; two Afghan wars, in one of which not less than sixty thousand camels died of hunger, thirst, and over-labor another war in Egypt; and assert that it was not possible for anybody to form, will not say just defense, but a reasonable excuse, for the wars that have been waged