Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-12-12
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Max Muller strikes compromise between those who are contending for the abolition of the poet laureateship and those who desire the post filled. His advice is don't abolish it, but just hang it up till another poet like Ten ayson appears.
 The new duke of Marlborough is one of the ablest students at Trinity college, and was engaged the night be- fore his father died in writing an ar ticle on modern railway cars, based upon ideas that were suggested to him by recent accidents on English rail- ways.
 When John Morley was a schoolboy he was described as the negative end of the family magnet, his brother ''Ned" being the positive pole. John was always cold, unresponsive, and neglected, and as consequence was al lowed by the other boys to 'foregather by himself"
 George Ohnet's "Maitre des Forges" was written, it is stated, during his honeymoon, with no little help from his wife, and the latter, after several pub fishers had declined the MS, persuaded him to publish it on his own account. They are said to have drawn over S300,. 900 from it's sale.
 That gifted, but unapreciated genius, Oscar Wilde, who lately shook the dust of England from hls feet and went to France to live, turned up at an art show in the New gallery in London few days ago. The Pall Mall Gazette sarcaStically observes that Che was heard speaking English quite flu cntly."
 Ralph Waldo Emerson's death draws attention to two facts: His un- married daughters beautiful devotion to her blind parent these many years; and the undisturbed condition of MT. Emerson's study since his death. In fact, the whole house and its furnish ings have undergone little change in a decade.
 Mark Twain's humor-created coro- ncr, who held an inquest on an Egyp- tian mummy and charged the county with compound interest on the regular fec from the time of Moses, has some thing nearly akin to a parallel in the Buffalo coroner who held an inquest on the recently unearthed bones of few Indians whose tribe became extinct prior to the year 1880.
 Rear Admiral Stephenson, the new commander of the British squadron in tho Pacific, has been in her majesty's navy for forty years and saw active service in the Crimea, in China, and during the Indian mutiny. It was Capt. Stephenson, as he then was, who was in command of the Heron gunbOat on the Canadian lakes during the Frnian disturbances, and he had charge of her majesty's ship Dis covcry in the arctic expedition of 1875 16. Rear Admiral Stephenson was for. mcrly naval aide-de-camp to the queen, and he has been an equerry tc the prince of Wales since 1878. Wilson Barrett tells the following
 story of his childhood: "Forty years age three little boys advertised show tc | be given in the barn belonging to the father of one of them near Manchester | England. The price of admission was three pins, or six pins for a reserved scat. The play was an adaptation O, | Julius CWsar,' and the parts O | 'Cpsar,' Mare Antony and 'Bru
 tus' were taken by three boys, none | of whom was over four years of age | A retired actor, then living in Man chcster came to see the children play l and after the performance remarked | that he had never seen anything jus | like it before. One of those childreI
 was myself, the others were my dcal
 friends, Henry Irving and Iohl | TOO1t," "