The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-27

1t Is said Of william Morris. tho
limbs in anything but blue serge, IN
which he looks for ali tho world like n
blun sea captain. II ne be asked 20
dinner the first thing he stipulates -
for the serge garments and no swallow
tail
When Abraham Lincoln, while
studying law in Petersburg. III. was
paying Mr.. Alfred Gordon for his board
BY splitting rails. he had the same envi-
able reputation for doing thoroughly
good work in that occupation SIS in the
more exalted work he performed in aft
er years Some of these rails are stin
in use, forming part of the fencing on
the Alfred Gordon farm
French novelists are forming
powerful association for the protection
OF their interests against the publish
ers The society is being promoted by
one of the most eminent living French
writers OF fiction. The authors chief
grievances are that the publishers sell
their books at any price they can GET
for them. and that thew print and sell
larger number OK volumes than they
account for.
Tho duchess Of LauraCuais, who
! was somewhat given to making poetry.
could not think of word ~ rhyme with
coiIe- Turning To Tailevrand. who
CHANGED 10 be BY her side, she said:
Prince. give me rhyme 20 coifse."
Impossible. duchess" replied Tallev-
rand, without moments DELAY; FOR
| that which pertains 10 tie head OF
woman has neither rhyme nor reason"
An Snragcd Partisan poet lately
brought an action for damages against
his publisher because sonle OF His
rhymes were spoiled nv printers blur
ders. lie lost his suit, the court hold
ing that in withdrawing the book a.
soon as the error was discovered and ia
correcting the Oft ending line the pub
Usher had done all that could reason
ably be expected OF him.
Noted writers ere 70 be sent on a
voyage around the world oo discover
literary material for descriptive stories
and romantic fiction based on the lives
and scenes of foreign lands visited.
ton, and be win take an artist. "A Veolo-
gist naturalist and eonehologist. A
schooner. 10 be named the SargaSso.
will be chartered, and will sail from
New York.
Julia Ward Howe began the study
of ancient Greek in her old age. but
probably with no greater interest than
that with which Queen Victoria took
up Hindustani At seventy That was
three years ago. and her majesty is still
bending her energies 20 acquire per-
feot command of the language OF her
oriental subjects. She has added n
staff of Hindoo servants to her house
hold, to whom she gives orders In Him
dustsni, and whenever a raiah from
her far eastern dominions visits her
palace. as in the case of the gaiLIwar OF
Baroda, she converses with him in his
native tongue.
Joel Chandler Harris thu Uncle
Remus" OF current literature, lives near
Atlanta, on small estate thickly
grown with trees. vines, and flowers
among which magnolias and Cape jas-
mines predominant. There is a happy
family of six children ir the house. and
the author leads an existence that Is an
agreea bic com bination Of city aud
country life. Mrs Harris raises her
own poultry and attends 10 her pet
Jersey cows with maternal solicitude,
while her husband, who was reared on
plantation. drinks glass Of butter
milk with his noon lime dinner with all
the gusto of youth