The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-11-05
PERSONAL AND LITERARY,


Harry A. Garfield, the eldest son Of
ex-P President Garfield, is professor in
the new law school of Western Reserve
university, at Cleveland, which Presi-
dent Charles L. Thuring is just organ
izing.
Frank r. Stockton, the author of
"Rudder Grange, is at present doing"
London. He has bright, dark eyes look
ing out from under broad forehead, a
sensitive mouth and grayish, peaked
mustache.
The little queen of Holland now
counts q colonel's uniforms pretty
condemnation of colored cloths and
gold-among her wardrobe treasures.
This is for service in the post EN-
peror William assigned her to at the
head of the Second Westphalian infan-
try.
Gen. Lew Wallace did not originate
his great "Ben Hur' chariot race. but
he did. it appears, originate the novelty
of courtship by telegraph. An old tele-
graph operator, now an editor, says that
he transmitted ardent messages from
Gen. Wallace to his future wife as far
back as 1852.
Mr.. Theodore West, one of the old
est railway engineers in England, and
at present, and for many years, SUPER
intendent of the locomotive department
of the Northwestern railway of En-
gland, will be the guest of the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad at the Worlds
Columbian exposition next year.
Marquis Guiccioli, the new Italian
ambassador>at Berlin. is a granddaughter
of the beautiful Countess Guiccioi,
whom Byron loved, and who proved to
be the last of the English bard's roman
tic conquests. The marquis was for
merly mayor of Rome. and is said to
have inherited fair share of his great
aunt's good looks.
John R. Keeling, the policeman on
duty in Cooper Union. is one of the
bookworms of the department. He is
a student of history and devotes much
of his leisure to the examination of
historical data. His knowledge of Irish
history is exceptionally good. and many
persons go to him when they want a
knotty question settled.
"A Philadelphia authorcss, Miss
Laura N. Ford, has purchased ten acres
of land on one of the highest SUBMITS
of the Green mountains, in the heart of
wilderness, where she proposes 20
clear the forest, pioneer fashion, and to
form summer colony. She has
a. Sea. ol La o1u x,{
the seven mountain pinnacles that
tower above in.
DIR. Holmes library, a California
visitor says, is absolutely lined with
books, every one of them especially
priced by its owner. eve have just
culled out the best, my secretary and
l." the doctor said. each month brings
a multitude. but we keep here only
those love to have about me. like to
preserve most editions of my own
works." he added playfully.
Joseph Senior, whose death occurred
recently, was famous in England for
the verses he wrote while toiling at his
forge as cutler in Sheffield. He pub
lished his poetry under the title Of
''Smithy Rhymes and Sti.hy Chimes, !"
and the book had large sale. At the
age of sixty-five Mr.. Senior was stricken
with blindness, and he thenceforth de-
voted himself entirely to verse-making.
Hall Caine, the novelist, lives in
pretty cottage called THE Haw-
thorns," in the heart of the beautiful
Westmoreland lake country, made IA
nous by Wordsworth, Coleridge and
Southey. He has typical Celtic face,
not unlike that of Shakespeare in its
contour, and dresses nntidily, and is
lazy in most things. At present he is
at work upon an idealistic life of Jesus,
which he believes viii prove his master
piece.
On the road from Khandala to the
famous cave of Karli, i'll India, says
Miss North, in her recently published
"Recollections of Happy Life" she
came upon "a splendid tree of Jonesia
asolxa, full of orange flowers and deli
cate leaves. The priest of the temple
found me one fine flower growing
through honcycolnb full of honey,
which had been built round its stem.
Did the buds push their way through
the honey and wax. or was the thing
built quickly round then?''