The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-12-16
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Senators James q. Georgc, Of Nile
sissippi, and A. II. Coiquiti, of Georgia,
and ex-senator S. B. Maxey, of Texas;
all of WHOM were officers in the codfed:
crate army, are on the Mexican pension
roll.
Prof. Cunning, NJ. D., to whom Mr..
Gladstone has rendered a baronetcy, is
ii eminent Irish physician and a pro-
fessor in the queens college at Belfast.
His daughter married q son Of Sir
Charles Russell.
MIR. Charles Francis Adams has
written n book entitled "Massachu-
sets; Its Historians and Its History"
He convicts the state of a long practice
of religious intolerance and historians
of ignoring the discreditable fact
Van Roberts, n ho~telkeeper at
Rush Hill, Mo-, has fallen heir to $780,
600 left him by John Bennett, who
died at La, Vegas, n. NJ. Roberts
saved Bennett from drowning in the
Sahgainon river near Decatur, Ill,
twenty years ago.
clarence King. formerly director
of the United States geological survey,
well known as Il man of science and
of letters and conspicuous in the social
and club life of New York and New
port, has become insane and has been
sen to an asylum.
Prof. Weinhold has been elected
rector of the university of Berlin to
succeed Prof. Rudolf Nirchow, whose
term ended at the beginning of the
present semester. DIR. Virchow has
been appointed a member of the uni
versity senate by the new rector.
Charles l.. Nichols, who died re-
Gently at Lyons Farm. n, j.. was the
original promoter of the elevated rail-
road system, He was made secretary
of the New York company, but was
oustcd when the Gould management
took possession of the ''watered" cor
poration.
Daniel Webster liked to make re-
marks of a character intended to puz-
zlc simple minds. Stopping to dinner
one day at a country inn, on his way to
Marshfield. he was asked by the hostess
if he usually had a good appetite.
Madam" answered Webster, Il some
times eat more than | do at other times.
but never less."-Argonaut.
No matter at what time of the day
you call upon Pension Commissioner
Lochrcn you will find him smoking,
and not a cigar either. He is devoted
to his pipe. and it is an elaborate affair
of briarwood, and as large as Il teacup.
lie receives no visitors until he lights
this pipe in the morning, and receives
none after he puts il out at night.
Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop. whose
entertaining books of travel are we'll
to address the British house of COM
mons. She had a remarkable expert
nee of travel in Koordistan. and was
summoned before the English parlia-
ment t tell what she had seen of
Christians in that remote country.
Miss Ella Knowles. who was de-
feated for the attorney-generalship of
Montana by a small majority, and'was
then appointed assistant by her sue
ccssful competitor, recently secured, in
favor of her state before the interior
department in Washington, a decision
involving about two hundred thousand
dollars worth of school lands in Mon
tana.
Eugene Kelly, the millionaire New
York banker, is a sclf-madc man. He
was BORN in Ireland cighty-two years
ago. lie earned the money to pay his
passage to America by driving n jaunt-
ing car. lie had not one penny to
jingle against another when he landed
in New York in 1881. lie became a dry
goods clerk, and to-day his fortune is
at from ST. OO, 900 to $40, O0O,-
900.
Robert Louis Stevenson, with per-
the first reputation among living
writers of English fiction, is an en-
example of what genius may
accomplish in n short time. 1t is not
many years since he landed in this
country, with weak lungs and no lit
crary rcpute. and vainly cssayed to
market his wares with the publishers
of books and magazines, who now are
only glad to pay him well for whatever
he may furnish them. but even 10 pay
other persons fer grave critical articles
upon the nature of his literary art.