Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1890-02-07
LITERARY FRAGMENTS.

MIR. JOSEPH JEFFERSON is said to have
received $4,000 for his autobiography.
OUDA, it is said, has made more
money by her labors than any woman OF
this century, except Patti.
AN American publisher has offered
| Gladstone SIS, 600 . year for the ex-
| elusive use all he writes.
MARK TWAIN works only three
months in the year, and then does his
writing on farm, near Elmira, where
he has an octagonal glass room in which
he composes.
IT has been proposed to mako 4 bool,
that would be indestructible by print
ing in gold or silver letters upon thin
leaves of asbestos, the binding to be of
thicker sheet of asbestos. Neither
time nor fire could have any effect upon
volume of this kind.
THOUGH his general health is better
than it has been for some years, Edmund
Clarence Stedman,' reports the New
York Journalist, ''has been suffering of
late from rheumatism. Mr.. Stedman is
great worker, and, like all high-strunr
Americans, is very sensitive to the
weather."
Miss IDA Adds, the discoverer of the
place of manufacture of the iridescent
MeXlcan pottery, and of the process by
which it is made described in Harper's
Monthly for August), is wcll-known
newspa per writer on the Pacific coast,
is good Spanish scholar, I'd has spent
several years in Mexico. She is living
now in chihuahua.
MIR. ANDREW YOUNG, the writer of the
religious song, "Thcre is Happy Land,
Far, Far Away" is still alive, asnan
eighty years OF age, vigorous in mind
and body, and-having all that sympathy
for children without which it is impossi-
BILE to influence the little ones for good
1t is about fifty years since these words
were written to the music Of an Indian
air, and they h.: We since been translated
in to nineteen languages.
A PROOF-REA in tho New York
World office recently wrote to Jules
Verne to know the precise name of the
hero of the story "Around the World in
Eighty Days" He received the follow
ing In response "Replying to your let
ter, I will tell you that it is really
Phileas and not Phineas that it should
be written, also that the hero of Around
the World is named Fogg. l take ad-
vantage of this occasion to send you my
best wishes for the new year. JULES
VERNE"
WILLIAM BLACK is small and sunburnt
and hazel-eyed and blacl5-mustached,
he asks six thousand dollars for q novel
and gets what he asks, yet withal no is
profoundly unaffected and 1naster OF
small talk. He is also addicted to yacht
ing and epicurean dinners; has recently
described his treatment at the hands of
the autograph f1end, and he is alleged
70 have sneaking regard for Scotch
mist. He is fortyeight, wears spec
tacles and is reckonod among tho ad-
mirers of Mary Anderson.
ALrHoNsE DAUDEr had determined to
remain bachelor, because ba was
afraid should he mako a wrong step in
matrimony he might dull his imagina-
ton; but meeting Mile. Julia Allard,
who was charming writer as we'll as a
lovely woman, his fears were removed.
His marriage has been a very happy one.
His vito has been the light Of his
hearth, tho regulator of his work and
the discreet counselor Of his inspiration.
There is not page that she has not re-
7ised, retouchcd and enlivened.