The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-02-19
Gleanings from Foreign Lana.

CAhn AaH4g.
Rev. MIR. Haweis, the English author
and preacher, records as the resnlt 4
his White House visit that Pres;d.ns
Cleveland seemed to him q man ill.,
Lord Broughman, but without
Broughman's irritability.
Huxley and Tyndan," SAYS the.
manager of q literary syndicate, "w;l
never write anything for publication
unless they have something to saw.
have tried them many a time aud
with good offers of money, but aIwava
unsuccessfully. They care too mncb
for their fame. But when they have
anything to say, they are ready to
say it, and TO charge for it, too.o
Leopold, of Belgium, is one Of the
most democratic" of Kings. He sau,.
tiers about Brussels in the most
leisurely way, and is as familiar !
figure on the Rue Royale as President
Grant used to be on Pennsylvania
avenue. He is fully six feet tall. and
has an angular form and an awkward
manner.
Mrs. Mary Hewitt, who wasfamous
as an English writer over forty years
ago, at S3 years of age, is in the en-.
joyment of good health and still en-.
gagged In literary work, being q regll.
lar contributor to the well-known En-.
giish periodical, Good Words. She re-
sides at Meran, Austria, in q beautiful
old manse, which bears the name Of
"Marion's Rest"
A serious fight took place at Poon-
ali, India, on the Goth Of December
between some men of the kings "
(royal Lancaster regimentl and 9th
ers of the Worcestershire regiment.
Fixed bayonets were used, shots were
fired, and several men were wounded.
one or two seriously. Accounts differ
regarding the origin of the fight.
The prince of Wales, John Ruskin,
Lady Dixie and other social and liter
airy celebrities have been induced by
an enterprising publisher to allow him
to print their opinions as to what
names should be included in a list OF
the hundred greatest authors o fbooks.
The prince declines to make the full
hundred, but says the list should in
clude Dryden, Scott, Carlyle and Rus.
kin. and exclude, Thackeray, Sterne,
Swift, George Eliot, Kingsley, Bulwer
Lytton, Longfellow and Southey. La
dy Dixie says Rabelais should be on
the list.
In the memoirs of Gustave Dore
some interesting statistics are given
with regard to his earnings. 1t is es-
timated that between 1850 and 1870
his illustrations brought him $1,400,-
900. A mornings work has been
known to realize $4,000. But it was
the number of his works quite as
much as the unprecedentedly high
rate of remuneration which he COM
manded that made his earnings SO
large. Everything brought grist to
his mill, from Dante to IN almanac.
He was not actuated by a greed OF
grain, but by the desire to establish q
monopoly of talent in his W per-
son.
Mr.. Algernon Sartoris, at a period
when his wife was known as Miss Nellie
Grant, had some thrilling experiences
in the wilds about Chicago. 1t was
current in the clubs at the time, that
Algernon while on a duck shooting
campaign, not twenty miles from Chi
cago, was induced by his young Amer
lean companions to mount guard at
night in order to give timely notice OF
the approach of wandering bands OF
red skins, and that to his earnest vigil
anee the safety OF that hunting party
was due.
Lord Macaulay, according ito the
Greville Memoirs, was rather uncouth
than attractive: stHis voice unmusical
and monotcnous, his face not merely
inexpensive but positively heavy and
dull, no fire in his eye. no intelligence
playing round his mouth, nothing
which bespeaks th~egenius and learning
stored within and which burst out
with such extraordinary force. 1t is
impossible to mention any book IN
any language with which he is not
familiar; TO touch upon any subject,
whether relating to persons or things,
on which he does not know everything
that is to be known