St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-23

uIdiHdGlc dHO musical WORKS. a great
deal of poetry is being written, and
dnring the past year Al. 900 literary In
ventionS were entered into this intel
lectual patent Office. A great part of
our copyright now comes from syndi-
cate newspaper letters, and sometimes
receive as many as twenty applications
a day for such copyrights. The library
is steadily growing, and we now have
more than 625. 900 Volumes"
asked as to the new library building.
at will be pushed AS soon as the
spring opens" said Mr.. Spofford, land
the people will be surprised at how fast
we can build when We again get to
work. We are now waiting for granite,
but in one day last fall we laid 81, 1000
brick and on another day $4,000. The
building is All imperative necessity, and
it will be pushed along as fast as pos
sible,"
Speaking of literary matters, under
stand that Henry Adams is still at work
upon his history of the United States
during JefferSon's administration. He
has had four volumes of this work al
ready published, and Bancroft looked
over the proofs and gave him his literary
advice. The work as completed will be
very valuable one, and Mr.. Adams
has the advantage OF the valuable pa
pers of John Quincy Adams and John
Adams in the preparation of it.
The biography of Lincoln, by Nlcolay
andHay is being prepared for book form.
John q. Nic0lay is editing the matter
and reading the proofs, and there is no
doubt that he and Mr.. Hay will make
considerably more than the $4,000
which they received for the manuscript
from the Century company, out of the
sale Of the book. | see that George
Kcnnan, the Siberian explorer, offers
his valuable lots on Sixteenth street for
sale. These are worth $4,000. He will
undoubtedly make something out of it.
Mr.. Kennan IS making cords of
money, out OF his lectures. /
ant secretary of state, abont him
the other day. He said: "Kennan's
suit of prison clothes and the iron chain
lie brought with him from Siberia
to America have already brought him in
$4,000. and they are adding to his bank
account every night. At the close of
every lecture he appears upon the stage
in his prison garb, and he finds it sue
cessful feature" Maj. Pond, the lee
ture manager of New York, told me
that me that KEENAN, was his oest card.
Said he: II have booked more than
$4,000 worth of contracts for him this
season, and he is the best-paying lee
turer in the field. One OF his secrets of
success lies in the fact that he prepared
himself well before going OH the stage,
and another is the splendid advertise
ment which the Century Magazine has
given him."
nr- I, !
OF frances Hodgsun Burnett, tells
me that she is growing better in Lon
don, and that she will return home as
soon as she is able to travel. She was
preparing to come to America when she
was thrown from the carriage and she
has been able to do no literary work
to speak OF since then. She has some
plans mapped out for future work, but
nothing in manuscript or in well-ad-
vanced preparation. DIR. Burnett says
that Little Lord Fauntleroy" paid very
well as book and as play. Eighty
thousand copies of the book were sold,
and it is still selling widely. The orig
inal Little Lord Fauntleroy'' is now in
Washington going to school. 1t is Tor
rather he Isl the son of Dr.. and Mrs.
Burnett.
The cartridge which Senator ingalls,
received by mail from Mississippi a
week ago brings to me a curious remi-
niscence of Secretary Stanton. 1t was
during the stormiest days of the war,
just before the emancipation prOclama-
ton had been issued, and when the
colored man was the prominent factor
In every mans mind. Stanton was sit
ting around his family table one even
ing when a bundle OF mail was brought
to him direct from the postoffice. In it
there was little package of about the
size of the box Which held the cartridge
received by Senator ingalls,. The pack
age was opened, and inside the paper
there was long, round roll of linen cloth
about an inch in diameter. Secretary
Stanton took out the pin which held the
roll, and began to unwind it. He went
on, and after two wrappers had been
removed the CHASTITY thumb of a negro
was found within. 1t had blooded the
rag which was around 1t, and had evil
IDENTIFY been cut from living man OF
one who had but a few moments before
the cutting died. The eyewitness of
the opening tells me that the nail OF
the thumb was rOughened as with hard
work, and that the skin on the front OF
it was worn white by labor. He de-
y
his family. and says that the incident
did not help the cause of the South with
the gruff war secretary.
The women suffragists have captured
the capital. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
trots about as though she owned Wash
ington. Phoebe CouZlns' eyes snar
with grit and determination, and Helen
NJ. Cougar acts as though she weighed
ton, May Wright Sewell has put or
her war paint, and Susan B. Anthony
is making scores of votes by her siege
on the congressman in the capitol com
| mittee rooms. Susan is seventy years
old this month, but she looks no Older
than when first met her years ago, ana
her eyes are as bright and her brain
| is as clear as it was i'm the
sixties. She has devoted her life tx
woman's rights. and she has come into
| close association with the public men OF
| the country for two generations. She is
not blusterer or notoriety seeker
and she has never cut off her hair mol
| worn bloomsr pantalooDs. She dresse:
| as we'll as any lady Of Washington, anC
| she is fond of black silk stiff as board
| She has the brain of man rather thar
| one of woman, and her warm gra,
| eyes look out through gold glasses in
very fetching way. | saw her chat
ting with Senator George Fris
| bic Hoar, of Massachusetts, in Statu
| airy hall ut the capitol this afternoon
| and Hoar's face beamcd with smile
and his great. round blue eyes popped
| out with kindness as he looked dow
upon her with Horace Greeley air. T,
my mind he looked more like grand
mother than she did. and the pictur
| might have served for a model for
great painting Of the platonic affection
of January and December. AS locke,
at them they were proudly rehearsinl
old times together, for both seemed de
cidediy tickled. i did not address either
but merely said to myself: 'Oh, yo
giddy things" and walked away.
George Bancroft, the historian, is cor
fined to his bed. and he has been sic
the greater part of the winter. He
not doing any literary work and he cor
siders his life-worlz done. He S i'll play
whist occasionally, and one night tli
winter he played the whole evening
making but one mistake, which is yer
good for man nearly ninety. Hi
library Is one Of the most valuable j