The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-12-23
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


Manat, who went from London to live
at the antipodes some years ago, died
recently at his mansion in Victoria.
He was the man who once sent an orde,
to England for ton of books.
Miss Braddon, the novelist, has one
great hobby - the collection of old
china. She has series of magnificent
cabinets of this at her house in Rich
mond, near London, and one room is
known as the plate-room, because it is
hung round with china plates.
On the anniversary of Lord Nell
sons death every October his flagship
is deliberately decorated with ever.
green's, and the white ensign is freshly
displayed as it was all the night long
prior to the battle of Trafalgar, when
he ordered it kept in view on every YES
sci of his feet, to indicate that he
would engage the enemy the instant he
encountered him.
-Erastus Wiman has gone to the
Muskoka territory, in Canada, about
three hundred miles north Of Toronto,
where he has hunted nearly every sea.
son for twenty-five years There the
Dwight Wiman Sporting club owns
two thousand acres, including many
lakes. 1t has a log club house, raises
its own potato crop and makes its own
maple sirup, and the fame of it's cuisine
is widespread.
The medal presented to Prof. vir.
chow at the recent jubilee is unique. II
measures 11s millimeters in diameter,
weighs five pounds, and is made from
eighteen-carat gold. The front of the
medal bears bust representation OF
the professor in relief. The back is
adorned with an heraldic design, the
categorical figures of medicine and pa
thology, microscopes, books, skulls and
an Egyptian mummy.
The total number of distinct words
names and their derivatives, is 4,ss9. A
few comparisons may be interesting:
The vocabulary of the Old Testament
is larger. Gesnius' Lexicon emitting
proper names and obsolete roots, con.
tains $50 words, of which 642 are
marked 'Chald.' The 'Iliad' and the
Odyssey together contain g, 900 words.
Shakespeare uses $4,000 and Milton
9,OOO.-Presbyterian and Reformed Re.
view.
"A unique thing in books is prom.
ised to chosen few. 1t is a book con-
tanning twenty-three poems by the late
Francis S. Saltus, Jr., the erratic young
genius who died a year or two ago. His
father will have twenty-five copies pub.
lished by Partisan house at cost Of
SIS, 1000. and will distribute them among
the personal friends of his son and him.
self. The poems could not be brought
out in this country. Each poem is writ
ten in a different language. The young
poet, whose brother is Edgar Saltus,
the novelis.tsslies in Sleepy Hollow Gem.
etery at Tarrytown, N. Y, where he is
to have $4,000 monument.
-Tsui Kno Yin, the present repre-.
sentative of the Chinese government al
Washington, has scholarly tastes, and
is especially interested in astronomy.
In order to gain time for study he is
! accustomed to retire at seven and rise
at three in the morning, to enjoy the
perusal of his favorite authors while
the streets are quiet and his attention
not likely to be diverted by outside
sounds. Mrs. Yin, a tiny creature with
diminutive feet, does not speak English
and on state occasions is quite thrown
in the shade by her brilliant husband
She spends the greater part of her time
in retirement, and is an adept in thu
art of intricate Chinese embroidery.