Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-02-11
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

ginia, whose death has recently been
reported, was one of the earliest emf
grants to California in the gold fever"
days. lie was n lawyer at the time,
and having settled in Sacramento, be-
came district attorney and took an
active share in politics,
"A writer in Belgravia recalls what
seems like a mockery of fate. Before
the poet, Philip BourSe Marston, be-
came blind, in fact while he was yet an
infant, Dinah Muloch, his godmother,
apostrophized his beauty in lines be-
ginning, Look at me with thy large
brown eyes, Philip, my king"
Mile. SzumowslSa, a pupil of the
great PaderewslSi, is to make her debut
in London soon. In compliance with
her fathers wish that she should be-
come doctor, she passed while very
young severe preliminary medical ex-
aminatons; but her love for music con-
quered, and she is expected to prove a
brilliant pupil of her brilliant master.
Lieut.. Julien Wand, of the French
army, well known as "Pierre Lott"
recently elected member of the
French academy, has been made COM
mander of the French sloop-of-war
Javelot, stationed now at Bidassoa.
AS the clever writer will bear Spain in
his new station. French papers express
the hope that he will be inspired to
write book upon the country of the
toreadors.
Dom Pedro's daughter, the Countess
d Eu, who lays claim to her fathers
hereditary right" of ruling Brazil, is
most unpopular among the Brazilians.
She is said to be a bigot, and has very
eccentric notions of economy. Ac.
cording to the stories told of her she
used to scrub the steps of the royal
palace with her own hands as an ex.
ample for the encouragement of thrift
among the people
The most prolific German author
ess, Amely Bolte, has just died at Wies-
baden at the age of eighty. She began
as governess in London and COM
menced to write in German in 1851.
After that she obtained considerable
popularity through the production of
more than four hundred romances, of
which most were in two or three vol
umes An effort to improve the social
position of women ran through all her
works.
Nine. the Princess de Sagan. leader
of fashions and frivolities, who has con-
tributed more than any other woman to
the fortune of Worth, the -milliner,
has villa at Trouville that reproduces
even to details the residence of Persian
millionaire. Everything within the
house suggests the land of the shah,
even to the picture of Nasr-ed-Din that
hangs over the fireplace. This maison
Persane is the favorite residence of the
lavish hand.
"A violin once the property of Louis
XIV, who was passionate admirer of
the instrument, was recently purchased
by dealer in Buda Pesth. 1t was made
years ago by Master Amati. The
violin was sold few days ago to a
member of the royal house of Prus-
STA" for five thousand gulden. The pur-
chaser, tits supposed, was Prince Henry,
the sailor prince, brother of the en-
peror, who is an excellent performer on
the violin. Indeed, the prince has
played several times in public, and has
acquitted himself with credit While
in Kiel he organized an orchestra among
the members of the nobility, and gave
concerts at the castle, which became
famous in many ways. The prince is
one of the cleverest members of the
Hohenzollern family