The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-08
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Charles Dudley Warner was born in
Plainfeld, II. j., and few days ago
the town, by official vote, resolved to call
the hill on which he was born warner
HILL" in honor of Mr.. Warner and in
recognition of his generosity TO his ma
tive town
Alexandra Dumas is greatly ham,
pered in his literary work by his wife
protracted and painful illness. On hes
account he stays at Marty, and is said
to walk fast and aimlessly about the
adjacent forests in all kinds of weather.
This mental distress completely units
him for the use of the pen.
The name of ,Swinb urne is almost
as closely associated with the Isle of
Wight as that of Tennyson. The poet
himself spent much of his early life at
the Undercliff His brother and his ia,
Their, Admiral Swim burne, are buried at
Bonchurch, and several members Of
his family own property in the island
Gen. Peixotou. the new Brazilian
president, is soldier-lilse man, past TIE
middle age, of dark or swarthy COM
plexion, and wearing his gray hair close
rut. Courteous and pleasing in man
ner, he it courteous land nerveusly po-
lite, and has good sympathetic voice.
AS soldier his record has been respect
able rather than brilliant,
Prince Max, the third son of Prince
George of Saxony, nephew of the king,
recently passed brilliant examination
at the university of Leipzig, and re-
ceived the title of LID. AS usual at
German universities, the examination
took place in the presence of various
faculties, any member OF which was
privileged to ask the young candidate
questions.
The Browning society of Boston
holds Interpretation meetings, in which
attempts are made to fathom the
depths and pierce the mysteries of the
British poet. who is admired by the
highly-cultured children of the Hub,
masculine and feminine, OF various
colors and all ages, whether living on
Beacon street or at the Back bay OF
elsewhere.
-One odd experience in the life OF
Sir Edwin Arnold seems not yet to
have been brought out in the course OF
his visit to New York. To win q wager
made by lady he climbed thirteen
thousand feet to the top OF Fuji San,
in Japan, and wrote on the edge of It's
crater n picturesque poem Of ninety
two lines Few poets ever attain TO
greater heights than this even in i'm
sgination-
Experts are predicting that the
books of to-day will fall 10 pieces be-
fore the middle of the next century.
The paper in the books that have sur
lived two or three centuries was made
by hand OF honest rags and without
the use of strong chemicals. while the
ink was made of nut gals To-day
much of the paper for books is made,
az least in part, OF wood pulp treated
with powerful acids, while the ink is :
compound OF various substances natur,
ally at war with the fimsy paper upon
which it is laid.
Maj William Dickey, known IL
Aroostook county as the duke OF Fort
Kent" IS one of the most picturesque
figures .among the pioneers and poll
ticians of Maine. He is about eighty
years Of age. but straight as an arrow
and very active IN the cause Of the PEG
pie OF MS district, whom he has often
ably represented in the legislature.
lie lives IN the barracks which were
erected at Fort Kent By the govern.
ment az the time Of the Aroostook war,
having purchased the property slll
fitted it I'D as a homestead.