Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-05-20
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs. Lovejoy Aldrich, of Seattle, Washington, is the widow of two soldiers Her first husband was in the revolutionary war, and the other in the war of 1872. She is the only person known to the pension office who stands in this position.
 A posthumous work by Cardinal Manning, being his only contribution to secular iterature,i is about to be pub Iished in London. It consists of essays on ''Honor," ''Consistency," Vanity"
 "Popularity,' ''The Fourth Estate,'' Critics" and like subjects.
 MT. Henry M. Stanley is busy upon a series of short stories for early pub lication. They consist of legends and folk tales communicated to the explorer by his native followers during his long and perilous journeys through the great forests of the Dark Continent. M. Ernest Lavisse, the new French | academician, is notable for his histri- onic talent. Indeed it is claimed that | at the Lycee Charlemagne he was wont to declaim Cicero's orations with such | dramatic vigor as to check any ten | dency to yawning on the part of his ! class.
 MT. George Lizotte and Mrs. Lizotte, | niece of Justice Harlan, have been on | a wedding tour ever since their mar riage in June, 1891. They like the life and say they may continue it as long as they live. Thus far they have trav eled 57,OO0 miles and have visited al- most every town of any size in North | America.
 Mime. de Lesseps, wife of ''le grand | Francais," can write equally well in French and English. She wrote novel several years ago and published it anonymously. She is collecting her husbands private papers and corre- l spondence. and proposes, it is said, to write a book explaining and defending his course in regard to Panama.
 Edison, the wonderful, the man who can work sixty hours on stretch the greatest inventor of the country, has interesting ideas about food. Variety" he says, lis the secret of | wise eating. The nations that eat the most kinds of foods are the greatest na- tions," and he said to his wife, just after they were married: II wish I might not eat the same thing twice in a month"
 -Jame Whitcomb Riley told tn,
 Louisville people that he is always troubled with diffidence when he goes upon the platform to deliver lecture.
 Il always" says the poet, have an ! ague of more or less pronounced type when I face an audience. But I have grown to be grateful for this, because I consider it an acknowledgment that a speaker owes his audience obeisance, and that he is fearful he will not be able to fulfill their expectations. l would rather approach crowd in thir attitude than to be too sanguine."
 David Mccoy, of Redlands, south ern California, celebrates this year his one hundred and third birthday. He i> still hale and happy, and hopes to liv> down many younger men yet. He was
 born in Burke county, N. C., May ?.
 179O. When twenty-one years old he moved to Frankfort, Ky, and in the war of 1872 he joined Col. R. NJ. John
 sons First regiment of Kentucky vol
 unteers to go up against the British md
 Indians who were menacing the United
 States border from Canada. In 1S4O he
 moved to Greencastle, Ind, and in 1S5G
 to Rolla, Mo. In 1863 he went to Cali
 fornia, but after a residence of somC
 years there returned to Missouri. He
 is finally in California again.