The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-11-04
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

PEhSONAl ANU LII EHAtV. ,
Horace Boies has never used to
bacco in any form and is unacquainted
with the taste Of liquor, and perhaps
his only profanity was when .he swore
in as the governor of Iowa.
The late Arthur Elder Nelson is
said to have made about SO, 0O6 a year
writing dime and half-dime novels, and
he didn't waste any of it on pistols and
bowie-knives to so hunting bears and
Indians.
Prof. Garner. who is monkeying
with gorillas and c~himpanzees in the
wilds of Africa, calculates that lie will
get back home in December. lie eS.
poets to have several exceptionally fine
specimens with him.
Jordan Bailey. a negro farmer il
Georgia, is still daily using a two-horse
wagon which he found left in one OF
Gen. Sherman's camps in Butts county
in 1884. That army wagon was evi'
IDENTIFY made for service which was not
true of all of them.
Henry W. Scott. associate justice
of the supreme court of Oklahoma. is
at twenty-eight years the youngest
Judge perhaps in the country. AT
twenty-five ne was register of the land
office at Larned, Kas., and since then
has written several legal works OF
standard authority.
The czar dislikes German SO much
that he recently declined to answer a
DANISH officer who addressed him in
that tongue until the remarks were re-
supposed that it would be Il relief to
him to hear Il few sentences in German
after listening to his native language
for a time.
Emperor Francis Joseph, wnom
his Czech subjects wanted crowned nj
Prague as king of Bohemia. has been
twice crowned already, as emperor of
Austria and king of Hungary. The
kings of Italy, Spain, belgium. Ba-
,aria, and Saxony. on the other hand,
have never taken the trouble to be
crowned at all.
Ming bPndllLlH VI ~lFd1btltN ID Sdiu
To he a follower of modern fashion in
his correspondence, for he has selected
a gorgeous coat of arms, which embel.
fishes all his letters. Ills letters are
written by his secretary and bear the
official stamp of Behanzin. The king
is said to he fabulously wealthy, and to
an English correspondent he deplored
the loss of one hundred and sixty pots
of gold stolen from him after his re-
treat before the French.
bismarck collects thermometers for
amusement as other men collect coins,
or stamps. or canes. Hardly a window
in his home is without one. and alto
gether he has fully thirty of improved
make about the place. The prince has
"a great fondness for the dumb creation.
In the forest about his castle there are
many squirrel boxes and bird-hOuses,
the occupants of which have been so
well treated that they come down the
trees to receive the are SEES of visitors.
Henry Irving's voice gave symp-
toms of giving out while he vas in San
Francisco. and the result of a consulta-
ton with Il specialist was that 4 sur
gical operation WIS performed on the
great actors throat, and a growth that
had formed in the nose to such an en-
tent that both the larynx and pharynx
were much irritated. was removed.
The Improvement in Mr.. Irving's voice
after the operation was cry marked,
and he has since expressed himself as
greatly pleased with the result.
-Worthington's Magazine says the
oldest rose bush in the world is at
IIildcrSheim, in Hanover. Ii was
planted more than 1000 wears ago by
Charlcmagne in commemoration of a
visit made to him by the ambassador
of the caliph IIaroun-al-Raschid. After
it had become a flouriShinG vine a
cathedral was built ovcr it. II is
known. however, that Il cofin-shaped
vault was built around its sacred oots
in the wear SIS, the vault and bush
surviving Il fire which destroyed the
cathedral in TAG. The bush is now ri
feet high and covers 80 feet of the wall.
The stem. after I.O9O years growth, is
only . inches in diameter.