The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-08-13
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Count Leo Tolstoi, the Russian poet
and novelist, whose serious illness is re-
ported, can handle farm implements as
well as the pen and is, withal, a skill
full shoemaker. During the last winter
and spring he has worked inceSSautly
among his famine-strickcn countrymen.
Mime. Adelina PATHS diamonds
alone have been valued at 1878, 900.
Empress Eugene gave her "A comb set
with twcnty-threc diamonds as "a we'd
ding present when she married the
marquis dc Caux. A gift from Queen
Victoria was "a superb diamond locket.
Cardinal Howard is the only car
dinal now in England. He lisa brother
of the duke of Norfolk, and lives in re-
tirement at Arundel, the seat of the
duke. He has completely lost his rea
son. At one time he used t officiate at
st. Peters, Rome. He is n splendid
looking man, with a handsome face and
fine figure.
The chances are hat the man who
wrote an immortal book may have
something worthy to say even in a
nGsthumous book Henry dc Roths-
child has secured a newly dis
covered manuscript from the pen of
lie Sage, author of GIL Bias" 1t
is an o~pera-comique, entitled ''Arle-
quin Colonel and is written with
remarkable elegance and wit.
Prof. Skeal, who maintains the
orthodox belief that the study of Latin
and Greek is serviceable for improving
a students style in English compost
ton, thinks also that there is m
thing to be said on the other side.
Whatever the student of Latin and
Greek might do toward improving the
students style. the study of languages
and English literature would do more.
The little queen Of the Netherlands
has been made chief of the Second reg
ment of W~estphalian infantry, known
as the "Princc Frederick of the Neither
lands, by Emperor William of Germany.
The late Prince Frederick of the Meth
erlands, from whom the regiment took
its name, was it's chief for sixty years.
The regiment has an honorable history
in German military annals, and distin-
guishcd itself at Guiappe during the
late Franco-Prussian war.
When King Arthur visited the Prince
of Monaco recently, the latter ruler not
only turned out his full army to receive
the guest, but he reinforced the organ
iZation by borrowing a few policemen
from the city of Nice. The governor
general of Monaco, the Baron de Faren-
court, presented himself in his newHni-
form made for the occasion, which the
sovereign visitor is said to have declared
10 be the most magnificent which he
had vet seer in the west.
James Ii. Miller, postmaster at
Gauley Bridge, ". Va, was appointed
by President William Henry Harrison
over fifty years ago, and is probably the
oldest postmaster in the country. He
has retained his office through all the
political changes of the last half cen.
tury, and ut the age of e~ighty-six year
is as prompt and efficient rs any post
master in the state. During the late
war Mr.. Miller's office was several times
within the confederate lines, but he
was never disturbed or annoyed in any
way.
-Maurel has published n book on
singing. which, he says, is passing
through n crisis, due to the changed
condition of modern life. In old days
the profession of singer offered few at
fractions comparatively, and those went
into it only who had a real vocation fol
it, and they prepared themselves by a
long and rigorous course of study.
Nowadays business is the leading mo,
tive SINGING ia lnnlka5 on lose nc ort
than as a way to make money, and peo.
pie push into the profession in every
state of crude preparation.