Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-03-19
SAVANNAH TENNESSEE THURSDAY, 10,
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs. Rachel Stilwaggon, who has
Just died at Flushing, l.. l., aged one
hundred years, made all her own
clothes and performed her own house
work until she was ninety years old
Prof. Harriet Cooke, professor OF
history in Cornell, is the first woman
ever honored with the chair and equal
pay with men professors. She has
taught in Cornell twenty-three years,
The well-known Connecticut wealth.
err prophet, Horace johnson, of Middle
Haddam, who predicted the famous
blizzard, and whose weather horoscope
was printed two or three times year
in the State papers, has become insane.
Paul Lidaw, the German novelist,
is about to visit this country and is ex-
pected to write a book about us when
he gets back home. The book will be
novel" enough if it follows the prece-
dent set by foreign travellers in this
land generally.
"A sensational story was printed in
Berlin recently that Baron Gustav
Rothschild had been sent to Algiers on
account of the condition of his mind
1t was also said that the Baron had lost
10000, 900 francs lately by specializing
in Paris and in London, and that since
1885 he had lost 200, 900, 900 francs.
Another New York society woman
who has gained substantial name in
the world of letters, and whose recent
publication of 1.-The Anglo-maniacs'
has given her wide fame, is Mrs. Bur-
ton Harrison. She is very pretty,
vivacious lady, whose winning manners
are great charm. Mrs. Harrison is of
Virginia birth and education and has
long been known as a successful writer
of plays and sketches.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley have reason to
remember Toronto pleasantly. They
were in the city just seven hours, dur
ing which time they were the biggest
people in the town. The Ontario So
ciety of Artists gave them a reception,
presenting to Mrs. Stanley handsome
album of paintings. Mrs. Stanley made
graceful little speech of thanks. The
artists gave her three Canadian British
cheers, and every body was Supremacy
happy.
Francis the Second of Naples, that
luckleSs Bourbon Ounce whose throne
Garibaldi overthrow in 1860, and who is
said to be one of Daudet's "kings in
exile" still lives in aimless comfort il
Paris, where his sole activity is walking
once day from his apartment to the
Church of st, Philippe to say his prayers
He is rather small and insignificant il
appearance, and looks like a pensionet
bank clerk rather than monarch re
tired from business"
William Westale, the novelist, lives
at High Standing, Loughton, and is ;
Lancashire man. He was born in 1885
In appearance he is slight and slim
about five feet five inches high, will
grayish hair, much wrinlxled forehead
bright blue eyes, straight nose, a soft
silky grayish beard, which delight al
Eastern cadi. He speaks very clearl,
and emphatically, and it is evident tina
he has q good deal of reserve force
When describing a scene his eyes igh
up, and you can not fail to feel that h
is seeing the whole thing as he speaks
He has a great fund of humor, ant
every now and then some quaint it'll
story comes out. He practically begal
to write stories when he was in hi
teens. Then he contributed to the loca
papers.