The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-09-23
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Joseph Jefferson's genius, industry
and prudence have enabled the actor
10 acquire a fortune, and for years he
has for the most part confined his sea
son on the stage to six weeks. This
short season keeps him In touch with
his loved profession and is a source 81
pleasure as well as peculiarly profit.
-Ex-Premier Honore Mercier OF
Quebec has published aletter thanking
the French Canadians of New England
and the Americans who Joined with
them in extending sympathy and hos
pitality to him on his recent trip
through that section lin the interest
of the great cause, independence of
Canada"
-Postmaster-Genera Bissell is too
heavy to get about much, and when he
plants himself in his chair behind the
great ~glass-covered desk, on which Mr..
John Wanamaker had n complete pos
tai map of the United States framed.
he is almost anchored, sitting there
steadily and only half rising to give a
fat. chubby hand to his callers.
Mrs. W. p. Earle, of New York,
who has been spending some time at
Richficld Springs, does not permit the
tritie of her being a great-grandmother
TO interfere with her antebreakfast
canter on her pet horse Dandy. Mrs
Earle's figure is as erect, her eye as
clear, her hand rs steady. as though
she were under forty instead of past
seventy years of age.
Mrs. Lewis Rice. of Frederick, Nd,
has collected enough money to place n
suitable monument over the grave of
Francis Scott Key, author of The
Star Spangled Banner" A fiat marble
slab now marks the place where he
lies in Mount Olivet cemetery, Wash
ington, ID. =. There is n very hand
some monument to Key in Golden Gate
park, San Francisco.
-Zola's latest ambition is to become
a member of the French chamber of
deputies. The novelist says that for
twenty years past his minute researches
into every class and phase of society,
from high to low, have provided him
Will d SlOth VI hLO" ItbEt dDVuJ LAC
evils and mysteries of social life of such
a nature as to make him an experienced
physician in the application of legis-
lative remedies.
Rev. Russell III. Conwell says he
never writes put a sermon or 4 lecture,
and that lie has delivered his lecture
Acres of Diamonds" i.136 times, but
never without change, according To- his
own mood or the character Of the
audience he is addressing. lie gives
all the proceeds of his lectures for the
education of young men, and he is now
supporting ninety-three in various col
leges and universities. Forty-four are
studying for the ministry.
Some secondhand book stores,
though only a few, make q speciality
of old diaries. Those of this year, If in
good condition, still fetch thirty or
forty per cent of their original price,
and il bound in detachable backs Of
good leather they go even higher.
Diaries of other years fetch from five
to twenty-five cents. Those at the lat
ter price are often richly bound.
Diaries of the year 1876 sell well this
year, because the dates of the two
years from March 1 are identical.
Harriet Beecher Stowe has entered
upon her eighty-second year, and,
speaking of the new brunswick" edi-
ton of Uncle Toms Cabin" she says:
AS took the little book in my hand |
seemed to hear the soft rush of the dis
tant tide in the sunny bays of Maine,
and to scent the odors of the balsam,
spruce, pine and hemlock which fringe
those lovely shores. 1t was indeed a
happy thought, the naming of this new
little edition for the birthplace of the
original" Mrs. Stowe wrote the i'm
mortal book in 1850. when her husband
vas professor in Bowdoin college.