The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-11-26
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The late william bradbury. the
London publisher, ~as senior member
of the firm that brought out Dickens
earliest stories. and to guard against
leaks Mr.. Bradbury and his brother, be.
ing practical printers, themselves set
Dickens manuscript.
Prof. E. n. Horsford. Of Cambridge,
the great believer of Ericsson as the
true discoverer of America. has re-
ceived from the king of Denmark the
decoration of a knight of the Royal Or
der of C~annebrog. This is a very an
cient order of knighthooh-it was
founded in the middle ages-reserved
for a score or two of persons of dis
tinction.
During a recent riot in Morocco the
mob threatened the house of the Brit
ish envoy. Sir Charlen Eaun-Smith, in
order to show their disapproval of the
treaty brought by him for the ~sultan's
acceptance. In the thick of the tur-
MOL, Lady Euan-Smith, who is, by the
way. a soldiers daughter. displayed her
GOODNESS by calmly photographing the
rioters with her kodak.
Mrs. Run1ell.C Charles, author Of the
Schonberg-Cotta Family, lives in a
pretty cottage near Hampstead Heath,
London. She is very pleasant and
cheerful in manner. and is the posses
sor of a goodly fund of shrewd humor.
AT present there is a prospect that she
:, n u rat,rr 20 har xrrnr Of Action
She has just finished compiling n series
of small devotional works.
A curious book, in which the text
is neither written nor printed. but
woven. has lately been published in
Lyons. 1t is made of silk. and was
published in twenty-five parts. Each
part consists of two leaves. SO that the
entire volume only contains fifty leaves,
inscribed with the service of the mass
and several prayers. Both the letters
and the borders are in black silk on a
white background.
-Bonamy Price once had a chance
talk of some length with Tennyson in
a public conveyance. in Mcmoriam"
proving the subject of most of 1t.
When it became necessary for them to
part the poet took the professor by the
hand affcctionatelv and said: who
are You? I must know who You are"
But Bonamy Price said. mo. I'm no.
body" and the story is so told as to in
dictate that he did not reveal himself.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett
wrote a letter to a London boys club,
in which she says: Il used to say TO my
of marble which is to be made into a
statue. You yourselves are the sculp-
tors. 1t depends upon you whether
You chisel it into n figure which is
beautiful and noble or one that is dis
tortcd and base. Every u%ngenerous
act, every hurtful word. every unmanly
thought is a false stroke of the chisel
and mars the statue"
The marquise de Blocqueville, who
died a few days ago in Paris. was form
erly one of the 'most beautiful women
of her time, and like most French beau
ties had considerable political influence.
The marquisc was a great favorite at
the court of Louis Philippe. and was
the intimate friend of Queen Amelia
and the duchess of Orleans. In early
~womanhood her features We're Of the
perfect Greek type, her eyes and hair n
brilliant black. Enthusiastic writers
of Louis Philippe's day described her
figure as divine. and her gait and car
riagr as those of a goddess. She was a
handScmc woman at tho tine of her
death.