The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-29
GENERAL.

There has never been wisdom
enough in the world to know how tc
help a man who does not try to help
himself.-Ram's Horn.
is briggs doing anything these
days?" Yes, busy all the time"
That's good; what is his business?"
making debts. "-Inter-Ocean.
-Teacher-"What do you see above
your head, when you are in the open
air?" Scholar-'The sky" Teacher-
and what do you see when the sky is
covered with clouds?!" Scholar-'My
umbrella"
I'll he blamed if I wouldn't be
ashamed to call myself an artist an
paint a picture like that" She
What's wrong?" Its a picture of
still life a n not a blessed jug nor moth
ing of the kind in sight."-Inter-Ocean.
What is the difference" shouted
the orator, between the pitiful bride
of five dollars accepted by an obscure
and unknown police officer and the
fifty Thousand dollars taken by a great
and mighty senator high in the coun-
ellis of his nation?" ''Forty-nine thou
sand, nine hundred and ninety-five dol
lars, to be surc!' roared the led.
whiskcred man on the front bench.
And that shows what brains is good
for."-Indianapolis journal.
The active promoter of the winters
Worlds fair in San Francisco, Mr.. r.
Cornely, is a German by birth, and
served in the German army during the
Franco-PruSsian war as ordnance off,
Ger on the staff of Gen. Broeker. and
was decorated with the iron cross.
After. the wal he was elected mayo of
Clcves. He began the management of
expeditions with the first exposition of
sports held in Europe; afterward he
was connected with several others in
Guiding the International exposition at
Brussels in 1883 and that at Colon in
1889.
DR.. Reuben Aldridge Guild, who
has just resigned as librarian of Brown
university, has served his alma mater
in that place for -forty-six years. His
term of continuous service is longer
than hat of n other officer Brown
has ever had, excepting only the late
Prof. Lincoln. To fill the vacancy
caused by DIR. Guilds retirement the
advisory committee recommended the
election of Henry L. Koopman, who
has served in the Astor, the Cornell
university. the Columbia college and
Rutgers college libraries.
Half dozen Americans must have
recognized in the Chailly-en-B iere Of
Robert Louis Stevenson's "Wrecker"
the little village of Gree, fifty miles
Fontainebleau, where Stevenson lived
twelve or ffteeE years ago along with
his cousin and double, also Robert
Louis Stevenson. They were distin-
guished By the artist colony and its
h~angers-on as Bob and Louis. The
cousin was an artist, while the novelist
of to-day wrote for tine British and
Scotch ''heavies." Gree ceased o
after to attract artists, though it has
not yet lost its charm of simplicity.
"A rather amusing story is told of
NJ. Charles Geryais, a French cheese
merchant, who recently died in Paris
full of years and honors and wealth.
M. Gervais was a self-made man and no
scholar. Last year. he stood for some
municipal post in the department of
Seine-lnferieure, and, in the course of
his campaign, read a speech composed
for him by a journalist of Rouen, be-
ginning as follows: "As a candidate
FOR this important ofiice-comma-fullv
understanding your wants-comma-I
ccme to solicit your votes-full stop.r
The scribe had written down the stons
ass guide to eloeution. but poor n.
Ge-Sais conscientioualy delivered e n
. part Of bis speseh