The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-08
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Sir EDWIN Arnold, the poet, Is
''slim-built, thiek-featured, dreamy
eyed and copper-eomplexioned. and has
struggling wisp Of brownish-gray hair
end thin. pointed beard"
Mary Kyle Dallas is lady who has
written 5000 short stories; of her it is
said: Her hair is white, and curls in
rings about her forehead, and her face
IS fresh. fair and youthful, and her
figure, in its black silk frock, neat and
trim
The king and queen Of Greece live
in very simple style, cheerfully adapt
ing their expenses TO the impecunious
plight of the country, and his majesty
often boards the tram" when he wants
to run down TO the port the famous
Pirssus) at Athens.
Anna f. Dickinson has brought suit
against eight persons, two Of them
physicians. for compensation for dam
ages suffered bv her in consequence OF
her confinement in an insane asylum,
which confinement. she insists, was
unnecessary and accomplished by force.
of James Bryce, author of the
american Commonwealth a recent
biogze~s.ar records that he is "a good
fellow sttll of information, who can
make himself very genial eompanion;"
that he, IS a confirmed botanist and
wears "a white felt hat that has seen
many years of service"
Sir John Thompson, the Canadian
premier, who has gone TO Paris in con-
nection with his duties as a Behring sea
ease arbitrator. is not yet fifty years
Did, and il is but sixteen years since he
was elected 20 the Nova Scotia legisla-
ture, whose proceedings he had previous
ly followed as reporter.
Louise Michel, the socialist. began
life as goTerness in the family OF
Count de Scissors and her first exploit
was to smash the crucifxes belonging
to her pupils, the counts daughters,
and to dance around the counts din
ingtable denouncing the parish cure,
who was sitting at meat with the
family.
The car and czarina of Russia have
gone to Livadia, their summer residence
in the Crimea, about three miles south
Of Yalta. The gardens of this villa
were laid out by Joachim Tascher
humble relative of the Empress jose
phine, whose master, Count Potocki,
purchased the estate in 1884. Thirty
years later it came into the possession
of the czarina.
Dick Quick. who was the first mate
Of the four-masted' schooner Talopa is
one of the best pupils in the East Maine
Conference seminary at Bucksport He
had pluck enough TO enter the seminary
without knowing how either to read or
write. but in two terms his hard work
has enabled him to be a student as well
as a sailor. and he is ranked as one of
the smart men IN the institution
The popularity OF the study of
DRnte has of late years had an extraor-
binary growth in England. in London
within the last decade there have been
more copies of the works of the Italian
poet sold, in translation and in the'orig.
inal, than were previously disposed of
in a century. It IS not too much TO say
that in this country the increase Of in
terest in the gloomy Florentine has
kept equal pace with that n England
Mr.. Gladstone's unappeasab BILE ap-
petite for literature is indicated by the
fact that recent consignment of books
sent to him at his request by London
dealer contained several works in the
Cornish language, an account of religion
in England in Anglo-Saxon times,
Griesinger's history of the Jesuits, Dr.
Stoughton's Religion in England Tn
der Queen Anne. Adams book on birds.
a life OF Cromwell, an early English
glossary. and other mental pabulum of
equal variety.