Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-04-05
PERSONAL ANp LIrERARY.

Little Lady Alexandra Duff, who, If her mother, the duchess of Fife, were to become queen of England, might herself some day occupy the throne. is pictured as baby of preternaturally mature expression, with features very much like those of her royal great grandmother.
 The truth about the condition of M. de Lesseps, the great French engineer. is that while his physical health is fair ly good, his mind is so enfeebled that he can scarcely sustain conversation and that a return to vigorons health for him is considered highly improbable by those close to him.
 James Whitcomb Riley's income from his readings and recitations equals bank presidents salary, while Bill Nye, in 1891, cleared $40, 1000 from his appearances on the rostrum. Max O'Rel1 and Will Carleton get $2OO night from their managers, and George w. Cable receives $100 every time he reads.
 The British commentator stumbles hopelessly over words and expressions in Shakespeare which are still common speech in Vermont. Nowhere in the world did the older English survive so long as among the Green mountains. The common speech in Vermont in 1900 was that of Shakespeare's time, almost undefiled.
 Sir Morell Mackenzie was we'll known in Louisville, where he once visited. One of his favorite patients was Mary Anderson Navarro, to whose house in London he was often attract VII T. s-- of the handsomest residences there, and it was filled with treasures of art, of which Dr. Mackenzie was great lover Margaret Fuller used to be accoutS ed a very wise woman, and doubtless | she was. for Mrs. Sherwood credits her with having once said: Never talk about yourself, your diseases, your do- | mestics or your dresses. Talk about your friends interests, not your own. Perhaps it was byzputting that precept into practice that Miss Fuller gained her great celebrity as converser.
 Gen. Butler thinks that MT. Lin- coin had but one fault-and that was a virtue-he had such great kindness o1 heart that he could not punish crim. inals. The general had tried his best to make MT. Lincoln hang deserters, but the president could not be brought to do 1t. As result of his clemency there was at the close of the war an army of deserters numbering more than one hundred and seventy-seven thou sand.
 The most remarkable thing about the brilliant careeer of Guy de Mau- passant, whose sad mental collapse ex. cites the sympathy of the whole world of novel-readers, is that it was the fruit of the long and industrious literary ap prenticeship he served with Flaubert From that novelist he learned to ap preciate the truth of Buffon's saying that ''talent is merely continued pa tience," and verified it in later life by the success that rewarded his pains.
 -Gustave Dore's mother was a plain quiet woman, who preferred domestic life and did not shine in society, but she had the greatest sympathy witk her illustrious son. She studied art that she might understand his work read the books and newspapers of which he was fond, made his friends hel friends, and humored his many, though harmless whims. The great artist gave as 8 reason for never marrying that he always compared all women to hi' mother, and they fell far short of her