Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-07-23
One Dollar Per Year.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

1T is curious little fact, and ono
worth remembering, that on the same
day, April 26, 1919, that William Shake
speare died in England, Miguel Ger
vantes, the celebrated Spanish author
Of don Quixote," died in Spain.
"A genius with taste for statistics
has calculated that the average news
paper writer makes 100000 strokes
with his pen each year, or line 300
miles long. A rapid penman draws his
pen through 1915 feet every minute. In
forty minutes his pen travels furlong'
Mrs. James T. Field, of Boston, the
widow of the publisher, is said to pos
scss one Of the largest private literary
collections in the world In the library
are quantities Of valuable original
MSS. and autograph letters, and in the
garden in the rear Of the house grow
trees that were planted by many IA.
nous authors and public men.
James Whitcomb Riley and Ella
Wheeler Wilcox were more than friends
years ago, it is said Both were poor.
however, and neither had attained a
national reputation at that time.
Whether or not Mrs. Wilcox ever in
tended to marry the Hoosier poet, Riley
himself was nearly heartbroken when
their cordial relations were sunde-ed.
Edwin Booth was recently offered
twenty-five thousand dollars by lead
ing New York publisher II he would
write the story of his life and theatrical
experiences Mr.. Booth refused in en-
phatic language. "Five times that sum
would not induce me to write line. /
shall never write book. l detest
writing. Sometimes | think ] don't
even like to act"
Wilder, the western humorist, says
that in appreciating good jokes crowd
of newsboys is the quickest and most
intelligent he ever met. No point,
gesture or shade of infection escapes
these alert little nomads, while on the
other hand many fashionable assem-
blages are chilly and unresponsive un-
til you break the crust of reserve or in
difference as if with a sledge hammer.
Two of the German emperor's
favorite dogs recently ran away from
| the stables at Potsdam without leave
and without their muzzles, which is a
necessary article of dogs attire in
Berlin and its neighborhood. "Fix" and
"Schnurchen," after a days enjoyment,
were taken up by the police, but were
eventually restored to the royal stables
after payment of fine of three marks
for each by the emperor.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland made
her first appearance in public life re-
Gently by going through a number of
functions in Amersterdam, which, to a
thirteen-year-old sovereign, must have
been perfectly bewildering. In the
simplest of white froclss, with broad
black sash, she moved about SO COM
posedly that one would have imagined
she had been doing nothing else but
take part in court ceremonials from her
cradle.
Queen Margaret's visits to the hos
pitals among the sufferers from the ex-
plosion are looked forward to with
great delight, especially by the chill
dren "And now tell me if there is
anything you would like, and l will see
if can get it for you," she said, as she
stopped over little cot where two bat
tered and bruised little victims were ly-
ing "Signora," lisped the younger 81
should like a dolly" "You shall each
have doll, perfect beauty" and be-
fore another day magnifi cent doll lay
in each little cot tenderly nursed by very
pale-faced and bruised little mothers
N. Y. Sun.