The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-06-11
UITHER And YONDER.
Notes About People and Things In
General.


ki's nervous prostration, which he took
back with him from his American tour.
IS more than compensated for by the
go 20O which he acquired with it. Most
of them would not mind being nervously
Frustrated several times Tor tenth part
of that sum. and some Of them have, in
the mast. achieved that condition without
a pound sterling to show for 1t.
The good and genial autocrat had al
WAYS the faculty OF doing a graceful
thing in a graceful way. One OF the lat
est Illustrations OF this faculty is his let
ter To some school children who wrote
10 him at the suggestion Of their teacher
10 EXPRESS their opinion Of "The Last
Leaf" which they had been studying.
In his reply DR.. Holmes wrote:
"Am glad to be told that have written
what has instructed and grained you.
The poem called 1.-THE Last Leaf was
written sixty-three years ago, before most
of your fathers and some Of your grand
fathers were born. / am almost the last
leaf of myself now, but / am glad to be
reminded that the tree OF life is full Of
young leaf buds, which will spread in the
sunshine OF the twentieth century. when
the bough TO which l am still clinging is
shorn Of its last years latest leaf"
II Queen Victoria were TO abdicate the
crown would still be in the family, but
she seems to think that II is a better fit
for her than for Albert Edward.
We Hun Penk, who from a cook In a
mining camp three years ago developed
into one OF the biggest mine-owners In
Arizona, and the husband OF pretty
American girl formerly Miss Mater, a
New Orleans typewriter), has sold out
TO an Australian syndicate and Is going
10 South Africa with his wife.
Professor ]. Soule Smith. editor OF
Fetter's Southern Magazine, a man Of
some years and great learning, has this
to say about young girls: "A young girl
is at once the breath OF life and iG In
carnation in pink and white beauty. She
is the dream and it's embodiment. the
peach blossom and the rlpened peach. a
carnal paradise, and yet the apotheosis
OF earth. An Eden, guarded well by
flaming swords Of custom and propriety,
she is the substance Of all fruits. the es-
sence OF all flowers. In her eyes there are
faint shadows Of a possible Madonna; I'm
her smile the Turing "reminiscences Of for
hidden fruit. Fitted TO tease, TO tan
tallze, TO captivate the bright waves OF
her being flow about an old mans heart,
though reaching not quite to his lips.
Al through the sunlight Of the day she
drifts like apple blooms In spring drift
through the air, beneath the moonlight;
she becomes the plastic statue of a sigh,
a vision and a sentiment. figure always.
always changing, always lovlier In the
change. The frost upon an old mans
head may not have pinched his heart,
and so he looks and fingers, loves and
dreams, and wraps himself about with
robes OF gentle Renaissance"
Donna Eulalle will find the undemon-
strative admiration OF the Madrid popI-
lace rather tame when she goes home
with the ardent homage OF democr attic
American cities lingering in her memory.
The friends OF criminals who intend 10
summer IT, Chicago my address their
letters care of the chief-of-police. APP
preciating the temptations offered by the
unusual crowds Of strangers, the author
tiles have arranged a great ''round up"
Of crooks and sharps. and when the pro-
fessional criminal gets to the Fair he
will find a member OF his home police
force all ready to welcome him. In fact,
the police are having little Worlds
Fair congress OF their own, and all using
their summers work as a great object
lesson to each other. Picked men from
detective forces all over the world have
in Chicago. not only for the
protection OF visitors. but TO confer with
each other as 10 the best method OF max
ing the way Of the transgressor still
harder.
Never was there so much building going
on at the Capital as now. At every turn
the eye encounters brick, stone and NOR
tar and some OF the new houses are a
vast Improvement on the old. II archi-
tects would only postpone drawing their
plans until they had become saturated
with the architectural beauty OF the
Fair, Washington would be the
gamer.
Everybody in Chicago who has a house
is filling 1t with friends and doing every
thing possible for their comfort. The
weather is at last settled, and there's
enough TO see at Jackson Park TO take
all summer in the seeing. Whoever stays
away because the Fair isn't ready
makes n great mistake. No one person
has brains enough TO absorb a one-thou-
sandth part Of what is now In sight.
Next seasons crop OF buds will prob
ably decide to emigrate en- masse to Den
yer. Colorado. An enterprising dancing
master instituted there an endurance
in which the participators
sought to find out how long they coMd
waltz without stopping. Each young
man was allowed six partners. who re-
ieved each other by turns. AT the END OF
eighteen hours and a half the Humane
Society interfered. and the dancers were
stopped by the police.
The incident is cited not In approval
but TO show the kind Of young man they
raise in Colorado. Here In the enete
East so few Of the lords or creation can
endure the fatigue of dancing at ALL that
the prettiest .debutante often goes part
nerless. Not only have we no men VINO
can Guidance six partners. but there are
hardly any equal 10 tiring-out single
one of the athletic girls OF the present
The wide-awake summer
hotel-keeper should lose no time In max
Ing a contract for the services OF hair
, dozen or more OF these eighteen-hour
walters. The hiring of dancing men Is
one OF those mythical Industries. known
only in columns OF the Sunday papers
but with the advent Of the Colorado va
riety, such an enterprise might be trans
formed from fiction 10 fact.
Amelie Rives' brother-in-law. Mr.. w
J. Chanler. went into the Bowery In
search of copy" as he Intended TO write
A realistic, "strikingly descriptive" story.
From his own account he suffered IRON
thieves and policemen. and he entered ths
PLAYERS Club In a battered ard bleeding
,ondition. The gifted writer u now At