Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-03-19
HER GREWSOMs PRIZE.

lbrSONiyh SOC.ety
 A story is going the rounds of Brook lyn's fashionable circles, says the New York Herald, which shows how absent minded persons may often find them selves in a very embarrassing situation. One of Erooklyn's reigning society belles, it is said, recently entered a Court street confcctiuner's to indulge her taste for sweets. ;Hhc had been shop ping and carried a number of small packages. which she laid on tho counter while waiting the filling of her order "a pound of French mixcd.'
 When she was about to go the polite clerk laid [. dctaining hand on her arm.
 ''lies pardon, miss," he said, but you've forgotten sometninc.' pointing to a small oblong package on the coun- ter.
 The young lady looked at the package. It did not in any way resemble any she had received during her shopping tour. It was ohlong and flat, and a-rn.,i to contain something of a ha.'l nature. S!l" finally counted her packages, decided that it was not hers and said so.
 But the clerk was sure he had seen her lay it down. and tho proprietor, who was called in, also insisted that his fair GUS toner was the owner of the mysterious package,
 "But it is not :rtnc,;' she returned. greatly annoyed. II have all my p'll- chascs. If you think it Is mine open il, and that will soon prove am right
 "', Its SC" wu., tue confcctioncr's re- Srnn$", and wi.h";.' further barley h, cut the string ;:,ol uArollcd the paper. First q piece Nf tiMo brown paper was taken off, then s,.ar fine tisauu paper, and under this w&S-what do you think?-uu Cl&l.,,1;.;.,7, -cnrravcd silver coffin plate, wl..~.n informed tho r:ton- ishcd bcholdrr> that "Wi.lia.l < ubbs'' had died in l.s >iXti ;h N...r. nile a piuus " 9h t1a; h., so#l l..t ,,lt rest in peace appeared br}o" in Gnu cngravcrs' script. Tho youll" lady shriokcd and almost fAintCd, for s''r "t once remcm- hrr,i that her Inst r.ll before coming to tho c,HfrrtinHvr'; w.; to an en- gravCr'S 10 get SumC visiting car,i., en- irraN"d !n q pCruila" sty.' which is be- coming fashionable. IT. q faint voice shc cNl,iainrd this to the confpctioner and then offered to take back the plato. Shc was allowed to do so. followed hv thu HmuHCd lool1:, of the coufr..aiornrs clerk.
 On arriving at tho cngravcr's she found that the placo had been turned almost inside out in tho vain scarth for the coiiin-plate of the lato Mr. Stubbs. who was to be buried next day. She had picked it If, with her other parcels on leavinr the ,.larr hnforn
 IN THE WORLD OF LETTERS.
 TIE Russian Nihilist Stepniak writes all his works in English and they are revised by William Westall, the novel, iSt.
 WILLIAM D. IIowELLs has a poor opin- ion of Dr. samuel Johnson. and declares that he was mo poet, no critic and no philosopher
 CHARLOTTE NJ. ToNGE is one of the most prolific of book-makers. She has written and compiled hundred historic al works and novels.
 DR. EDWARD EGGLEsroN aff1rms that in his opinion there is not single American author who really makes an income out of his books.
 MR. GLADSTONE has again refused an offer made by Il firm of American pub fishers of 9G,O0 yearly for every thing he writes for the public.
 AMONG the moro important books of the coming year will be Stanley's on Congo, Dr. Talmage's Life of Christ and nr. Schliemann's new work.
 TIE day after Browning's death a speculator bought up the entire edition of his last book, then just from the press, and made large sum by Sales of copies at eXtravagant prices,
 THE Biography and Letters of Sarah Bernhardt, 1sS4-1SS9," by an old and well-knou'n military officer, is soon to appear in Paris. The book is to con- tain preface written by a man now dead.
 FROM memoranda of the late Henry w. Grady it has been found that, during the year 1889, he made loars to various people in amounts from $50 to S40O, the whole aggregating more than S13,O0O. IT has been stated that Miss Amelia B. Edwards was the first woman to re- ccivc the title of LL.D She received it about four years ago. But Maria Mitchell was malo an LID. in lS52, and Mrs C. ". Dall in lS7t JULES VERNE can travel no moro, prevented by the accident which befel | him four years ago when a favorite nephew went mad suddenly and shot at the novelist. One of the bullets hi him in the leg, and the wound has never hnal"d.