Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-04-02
Children Cry for
Pitchers CastorIa.
PERSONAL End LITERARY.


-Ex-Empress Eugene is said to have
refused fortune to write her memoirs
for publication.
Bruno Sperani is the nom de plume
of one of the E.ost famous Italian au-
thoresses of the present time, although
she is but little known outside of her
own country.
Rev. Howard McQeary's trial for
heresy gave an astonishing boom to his
heretical book More than Is, 900 copies
of it have been sold, a remarkable rec
ord for book on theology.
Sir Richard Burton, the famous
traveller writer and arch8ologist, who
died recently at Trieste, was master of
twenty-seven languages. Bayard lay
lor could command nearly as many, and
Theodore Parker read twenty-three,
though he spoke only English with ease
and fuency.
-Philo P. Hubbell, of Winona, Mimi,
is proba bly, the oldest living member OF
the Masonic fraternity. He was born
in 1899 and became master Mason in
May, 1920. Next in seniority is Henry
Ruby, of Chambersburg, Pa, who was
born in 1904 and in 1925 was raised
| master Mason.
1t is a very curious fact that all the
| paragraphs made about the famous Mrs.
| Kate Chase Sprague state that she was
| formerly very handsome, and is at pres
ent very youthful looking. The truth
is it is her alta BILE and gracious person
atty which inspires all the pretty
things said about her.
-Brisbin Skies. of Lancaster county,
Pa, is past seventy-five years of age,
| but he enjoys a fox hunt in the saddle
SO much that he will go without his
dinner any fine day for the chase. This
season he has captured twenty-seven
live foxes, which he will keep penned
up until spring, when they will be lib
Grated.
Literature is one of the instruments
for forming character, for giving us
men and women armed with reason,
| braced by knowledge, clothed with
steadfastness and courage, and inspired
by that public spirit and public virtue
of which it has been well said that they
are the brightest ornaments Of the mind
of mani ohm Morley.
MIR. Ruslxin, it is reported, is ex-
tremely tender as regards his personal
appearance. He is quoted as saying
that he is dissatisfied with all his por
traits, and that the truer and more can
did they are the less he cares for them.
81 like to be fiattered, both by pen and
pencil, so it is done prettily and in
good taste,'' he said humorously.
With bated breath New Workers
speak of the organizing of club called
the ''Millionaires. site for house
on Fifth avenue is contemplated, and
the whole outfit will be something I'M
exceled. Some of the people, Cornelius
Vanderbilt, William c.. Whitney, Fl. G.
Marquand, James M. Waterbury, J. 1.
Cadwallader, Robert Goelet, Adrian
Iselin. Jr., J. Newbold Morris and Sam
uel D. Babcock.
Before Kalakaua was taken i'll in
San Francisco, they say. he was accost-
ed on the sixth floor of the Palace hotel
by lady who had come there to visit a
friend and had forgotten the number
of the room. His complexion and un-
dress uniform led her to mistake him
for porter. Very politely he took her
card, and with bow, said: Madame,
, I'll see that it is done" Just then a
gentleman who knew him came round
the corner, and to him the king quietly
gave the card and the lady's commits
sion.