The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-12-13
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


Joan Ingoldw lives in retirement
with her mother in Kensington, En-
gland. IS. $3.50
DIR. Brooks. a Johns Hopkins pro-
fessor. says that either dredging must
stop or the, Maryland oyster will cease
to be a factor in the market in three
years. III
The silk manufactures of Germany
have been completely crowded out Of
the European markets by the superior
cheapness and excellence Of French
stuffs. The German wares are now
chiefly exported to South America.
Robert Browning is said to have
written THE Pied Piper of Hamelin"
for the amusement of young lad Of
whom he was especially fond. The
idea of publishing the little story did
not occur to him until the child's pleas
ure convinced him that it had unusual
merit.
Nine Louise Kossuth Ruttkay,
writing to friend in New Jersey, de.
plores Hungarian Indifference to tho
needs of her famous patriot brother,
who has to keep at work to supply his
needs. Kossuth has finished the fourth
volume OF his memoirs He declines
private aid.
-Emin Pasha is described as q live
~ energetic man, very near-sighte6,
and in various ways reminding one of a
keen, scholarly German professor. Ten
different publishing houses in Germany
have invited him to write a volume or
two about his African life, but the ex-
petition to the interior, which he ex-
poets soon to undertake, makes*it inn
possible for him to engage in any liter
airy work at presently. Y. Ledger
In his article just printed in the
Dix-Neuvieme Steele General Boulan.
ger tells the interesting facts that an
American bureau offered him $780, 600
for a course of lectures in this country,
and that he declined the offer. 1t is
not probable that Mr.. Gladsto tone has yet
given out the facts that an American
Literary syndicate recently offered him
wa, O0O Tor twenty-five articles that he
could have written in two or three days,
and that he declined the offer.
"A discovery in chronological and
Masonic lore is announced by Rev.
Hackett Smith, a rector of Lincolnshire.
While in Lebanon Mr.. Smith was ad-
mitted to the most secret intimacy with
the Druses for having saved the life of
young man by sucking the venom of
snake. bite from his body. He was
initiated into the Druses' hitherto I'M
known mysteries, and in these the ma
tives startled him, as Freemason, by
using the most characteristic of Masonic
signs. Hence he argues that the Druses
are none other than branch of the
great PhGnician race, whose ancestors
supplied the Lebanon cedars for Solo
mons temple. ~.......
= Prof. ". B. Buchanan predicts in an
article in the Arena that between 1910
and 1915 America will be devastated by
a most fearful war, "a labor and capital
war and black and white war, in which
the church will be shattered and the
marriage relation approxima ted to free
domP' The Atlantic coast of the United
States will be devastated by tidal
wave, New York and New Jersey being
the chief sufferers. All the cities not
more than fifty feet above the sea level
are doomed to destruction, and in the
midst of it all there will be an earth
quake which will belittle all previous
geological iconvulsions. The professor
may be the victim of defective informa-
ton. $780,