The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-22
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Rustomjee Pestomjee Jehangir n
the m%ellifluous name of an East Indian
who has written a pamphlet advocat'
Ing the use of spium as a cure for vari-
Gus ills which flesh is heir to. He
should be engaged as press agent for .
poor theatrical show.
Edgar Scott, of Philadelphia, son
of the late Thomas Scott, will visit
Sweden and Norway this summer in
his yacht. On reaching the age OF
twenty-one in August last he came in
to an income of q, 900, 900, and this will
be doubled when he is twenty-five.
Thomas Allen, of Tyler county, W.
Va, may be said to have earned his
title as veteran. He served under VEL
lington in the wars with Napoleon, un-
der Gen. Scott in the Mexican war, and
at the age of seveDty-two enlisted for
service in the late civil war. He is now
one hundred and three years old.
1t is said that Mrs. Leland Stan
ford has one of the most remarkable
collections of jewels in the world.
They are valued at &, OOu, 900, and in
clude a set of pink, q set of blue, a set
yellow. and n set of white diamonds.
Some of these gems were owned by the
Empress Eugene and by Queen Isabella
of Spain.
Mrs Mary Ann Rice. who lately
died in California, was the wife Of the
late John Il. Rice, twice mayo Of Chi
cago and a long resident of that city.
Mrs. Rice was a member of the famous
Warren family of Philadelphia, being
a sister of William Warren and a OH
sin of Joseph jefferson. She was promi-
nent in all charitable works.
Mr.. Dobbins writes to the Pitts
burgh Dispatch that the very ohjec-
tionable bit of slang, 1.-The wind blew
through his whiskers," is not Ameri-
a at all. In fact it was first used by
an Englishman. N Dan Chaucer. who
wrote the Canterbury Tales" In the
tale of The Shipman'' occurs this re-
markable line: with many tempest
had his beard been shake
Hilary Hopkins, a colored man, re-
siding in Suburba, Tex, is anxious to
find his two brothers, Ike and Harry
Bolden, the sons of Fanny Bolden, who
were raised near Decatur. Ala. At n
slave sale on Judge Hammond's farm,
near Huntsville, Ala, they were sold in
different lots, and became separated.
Ike and Harry were taken by their
owner W. Gray Bolden, to Texas, and
have not been heard from since.
The late Nelson Sargent of Denver,
had the distinction of starting the first
stage coach out of that city when it
was a struggling little frontier village.
Another distinction he had was that of
literally sinking 1000. 900 In Chicago
land in 1878, the property proving to
he swamp land of the least desirable
kind. During his later years his vener-
able figure was known to everybody in
Denver, even to the newly-arrived
'tendcrfoot."
John Tenniel, the old Punch car
t%oonist, whom the queen has recently
knighted, did more than any other
British comic artist to develop the
typical John Bull as we know him
pictorially. OF course he did not in
vent the cartoon. but the top-boots, the
low-crowned hat, the waistcoat, and
the stout walking stick of the plethoric
Briton as represented in the comic
journals were more strikingly por-
trayed by Tenniers pencil than by any
other.
Samuel Smiles says that when the
manuscript of his most popular work
was offered to Messrs. R~outledge the
book trade was upset by the Crimean
war. and the volume was declined.
Eventually it was brought out by Mr..
Murray. and within a year twenty thou
sand copies of it were sold. Since then
It has been translated into all the lam
guages of Europe. Mr.. Smiles has
had a varied career, having been a
country physician. a newspaper editor,
and secretary of a railway company.