Feliciana sentinel., 1890-10-04
PERSONAL ANb LITERARY.

-Qucon victoria's chief cook Is .
Mohammedan.
1t is estimated that 162. .9s7 volumes
have boen added to the college libraries
Of the United States during the past
year, making the total number OF vol
umes in such libraries 1853, 49S
Francis Power Cobbe is sixty-eighS
years Of age, and still active in her liter
sry productiveness. She is at the head
Of the anti-vivisection movement in En-
gland, and . power in its labors, both
with tongue and pen.
Probably the smallest millionaire
in the country is Jacob Seligman, who
is hardly more than four feet high. He
came from Germany when boy, and
went to Michigan twenty years ago
without dollar. His fortune is now
estimated at S15, 900, 900.
"A library exclusively intended for
women has been opened at Turin. The
rooms are elegantly furnished, and tho
tables covered with all the best period
icals and newspapers that can interest
female readers, while tho best modern
books fill the shelves. Turin, it is said.
is the first Italian city that can boast Of
such library.
Mr.. Gladstone, in a recent speech In
the House of Commons, delivered one
sentence of 214 words, which in typo
made twenty-four lines. 1t has been
remarked of it that, Notwithstanding
"its extraordinary length and the more
or less extem poraneous nature of Its ut
terances, the sentence was perfectly
clear and not in the least involved"
Literary men, according to CELSIUS,
have universally weak stomachs.
Aristotle had this organ so feeble that
he was obliged to strengthen it by the
application of an aromatic oil to the
region of the stomach, which never
failed to impart its cordial effects by
transpiring to his viscus. And an
emlncnt physician once asserted that
he could estimate tho capacity OF the
mind by the delicacy Of the stomach.
Just after the war ended the Navy
Department gave Ericsson a 15-!nch
she'll found among the ruins of Sumter
It had been fired from one of tho moni-
tors, and somehow the fuse had failed
to go off. Ericsson sent 1T to the King
of Sweden, and the good Oscar placed 1t
in the great museum at Stockholm,
with q fitting and touching inscription
in honor of one OF the most honored OF
Swedes. It's there now.
Mrs. Louise Phillips and Mrs. Au-
bertine Woodward Moore, two we'll
known literary workers. residing at
Madison. have begun the compil alton
of work which will contain collec-
tion of stories, sketches and poems by
Wisconsin writer's. Tho book will DO
an octave, and will contain five hun
dred pages More than one hundred
writer's will be represented in its pages.
The Introductory chapter will give
brief history of literature in Wisconsin,
and in addition there will be direc-
tory of Wisconsin writers.
Tho Speaker, of London, has made
study Of novel heroes. Out of 192 OF
these gentlemen that came out between
October and June last it is discovered
that eighty-five stood six feet while
many were even taller. Compared with
those of the nine months preceding last
October. tho heroes of the period in
question show an increase in height
averaging three-quarters Of an inch per
hero. 1t is observed that lady writers
show marked tendency to make their
male characters tr..i. The reading pub
lie would willingly allow some OF theF
fair novelists tho right to lengthen their
heroes to any extent if they could only
be induced to shorten their stories.