The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-12-29
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

M. de Lesseps. though partly re-
covered from his recent illness, is still
very weak. and will shortly be removed
to Paris for better medical attention.
His salary as president OF the Suez
canal having been garnished by the
liquidators of the Panama Canal Co.,
the family is said to be in straitened
circumstances.
The house wherein Poe wrote "The
Raven" is still to be seen in New York,
few hundred feet from the corner of
Eighty-fourth street and the st. Mich
olas boulevard, formerly the Bloom
ingdale road. It is plain, old-fash-
ioned, double-framed dwelling, two
stories high, with light windows on
each side and one at either gable. It
has pointed roof, fanked by two tall
brick chimneys.
Mrs. Wilson, the wife of the author
of the Wilson bill, is almost unknown
in Washington society. She lives al
most entirely at her West Virginia
home, going to Washington only once
or twice year for short visits, and
then declining all invitations. She is
a daughter of Prof. Huntington, of Co.
lumbian university, in Washington,
has prepared four sons for college, and
all passed their examinations bril-
liantly.
Baron Won Schloezer, formerly Ger
man ambassador to the vatican, in his
leisure hours wrote his memoirs, which
were to have been published recent
| ly. The young kaiser, however, Sc
cured proof-sheets of the book and
peremptorily forbade its publication.
Baron Won Schloezer is an intimate
friend and warm admirer of Prince
Bismarck, and it is believed that his
complimentary references to the ex-
chancellor displeased the emperor
San Francisco Argonaut
The forthcoming edition of Sin
Richard Burton's complete and literal
translation of the Carmina of Catullus
is to be printed on handsome paper
from old-faced type cast expressly for
the purpose, and to be destroyed imme,
diately after production. 1t will have
for frontispiece an etching of Blake's
portrait of Catullus. The issue will in
no case exceed the number of 1,50O
copies, and will be limited to private
subscription. There are to be few
large paper copies, and four copies on
Japanese vellum, which are not for
sale. The volume will contain many
curious and out-of-the-way annota-
tions.
Daniel W. Dawson, the Philadel7
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was sort OF all-around man. One
morning he went over to New York to
give his foreman and workmen some
instructions in carrying out contract
for building a creosote factory in Har-
lem. In the afternoon the Authors
club gave him reception, and his
latest poem was the topic of discus
sion. Later he went to Sheepshead
bay to see his steeplechaser, Rush
brook, engage in a race there In the
evening he lectured on "Norse Ny
thology" before select literary au-
dience, and afterward before the New
York Athletic club he outboxed their
champion amateur middleweight pu-
gilist
Miss Harriet Weed, who has Just
died in New York, was probably more
familiar with the mechanism of poll
tics, state and national, than any other
woman who has lived during the last
three-quarters of century. She be-
came so through her knowledge of the
operations of her father, the late Thur
low Weed, who was political operator
of unsurpassed skill and subtlety.
Miss Weed possessed many of the traits
of her father. She was of very re-
firing disposition, and had lived in
New York for over quarter of a CEN
tury, hardly known at all to the gen.
Grafton now at the front of the stage.
She was of most kindly nature; she
was most amiable; she was woman of
good deeds.