The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs. Lewis Rice, Of Frederick, Md,
has collected enough money to place .
more imposing monument upon the
grave of Francis Scott Key, author of
Star Spangle Banner" than the fat
marble slab which now marks it in
Mount Olivet cemetery, Georgetown.
Hon. James Harlan will be tempo
rary chairman of the next Iowa repub-
lican state convention. Ex-senator
Harlan has been for some years living
in retirement at Mount Pleasant, Ia.
He was one of the ablest supporters
President Lincoln had during the try
ing years of the war, when Mr.. Harlan
was a United States senator.
M lola, having been suggested as
a candidate for election to the French
chamber Of deputies, writes to the
Partisan newspapers that he has no
thought of entering q parliamentary
caree at present. He says, however,
that after having battled by means
of books he may in course of time re-
new the fight by word of mouth"
Baron Alphonse Rothschild, of Paris,
has only n eye. In the curse
of a hunt which he gave on his estate
in France last fall one of his guests ac-
cidentally shot him in the eye. Al
though the best specialists in Europe
tried to save the organ, it was found
impossible. The eye was taken out a
few days ago. 1t vas feared that the
sight of the other eye would be i'm
paired.
The only sign of great age in Mar
shall MacMahon, who recently cele-
brated his eighty-sixth birthday, is his
lack of teeth. When a molar passes
the time of its usefulness the ex-presi-
dent accepts the loss philosophically,
and refuses to call on a dentist to re
pair the damages. He attributes his
green old age TO temperate Irish an
cestors 1.-THE marshal's name is Patrick)
and to the absence in his own charac-
ter of malice and ambition.
}. d. Garrison and WI. O'Connell,
of the international railway survey,
have returned to Washington after an
interesting expedition into Central and
South America on the work of the
survey. They have been gone since
April, 1891, and have traversed the
country from Ecuador north through
Colombia, the Isthmus of Panama and
Costa Rica to San Jose, with an alter
nate route to Carthagena. Colombia.
They report the entire line practicable
to build at reasonable expense.
Lord Coleridge has beer telling the
following good story on himself.
Browning lent him one of his works to
read, and afterwards meeting the poet
the lord chief justice said to him:
what | could understand / heartily
admired. and parts ought to be i'm
mortal; but as to much of it really
could not tell whether I admired it or
not, because for the life of me | could
not understand it." browning replied:
'If a reader of your calber understands
ten per cent. of what | write | think |
ought to be content"
Charles Z. c. Brock, of Milton. Mass
is the one survivor of the three Mace
domains prominent in the Masonic
history of the United States who rem !
dered telling aid to the Union lodge of
Dorchester. Mass, and in
general during the struggle against
that order fifty years ago. Mr.. Brock
is ninety-six years old ard has beer a
mason for over siXty-seven years. 1t
is understood that the Massachusetts
fraternity will make an effort to send
him to France to attend the convention
old men soon to he held in France,
at which no man under ninety-five will
nermitted 70 ottnnd