The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-26
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Justice Blatchford's wealth waa
partly inherited. His father once lost
$50, 600, IL is related, having set q valise
containing that amount down in Full
ton street, New York, to buy SOM pea
nuts and gone off forgetting it But
he was so wealthy that the loss did not
hurt him much.
Sir Leonard Tiliey completed two
years ago his second term as ieuten;
a~nt-governor of New Brunswick and
he is still serving because partisan
politics there is very bitter and the
government has avoided the danger OF
exciting the animosity Of one faction
by failing to select his successor.
Mrs. Frederika Macdonald, a we'll
known English writer and lecturer,
and Mrs. Annie Besant, who holds
Nine. Blavatsky's scepter, engaged IN
a public d%isputation in London recently
about the merits of theosophy and Bud
dhism. The debate resulted in a drawn
battle, but was most interesting to the
audience, as each disputant made an
animated argument to support her
thesis.
Pierre Lott, who is about to start
ont on a tour to Egypt and Palestine,
appears to be a great f~avorite with
some of the feminine readers of his sto-
ries. In a lecture which she lately de-
livered about the novelist, Nine. The
nard said that Eat receptions they over
whelmed him with %adulation, and had
l. - Ill %ha Zoos md prinag
they pressed on him he would have died
ere this"
1t is the distinction of Rev. Mr..
BlOdgett, of Greenwich, Mass, that
during his long ~pastorate of the village
church there he has buried more peo-
pie than the town contains. He has
oficiated at 624 funerals, while the en-
tire population of Greenwich at the
present time is only about so. Mr..
Blodgett is seventy-eight years old, n
for half n century he has been the
towns only clergyman.
There were great rcjoicings among
the pupils of NJ. benjamin Constant
upon his election to a membership in
the French academy. A reception was
given him at one studio by the men
there, and a triumphal arch of roses and
laurels was erected by his girl pupils
in his studio in the Passage DIES PIANO.
ramas. BESIDES this, the staircase to
the street was lined with young girls,
zach of whom held aloft Il long spray
of flowers or a palm branch as the
painter descended, forming a floral
canopy over his head.
-Colley Cibber was playing cards
one evening. As the game went on, he
did not follow suit, ~whcreupon a testy
old general cried out: What, have
YOU not n spade. Mr.. Cibber??" The
~poet-laureate, nothing ahashed, looked
at his cards and answered: ''Oh, yes, n
thousand" a reply which drew forth a
very short and peevish comment from
the general. Colley. who was a very
cool customer. and was, besides,
''shockingly addicted to swearing" as
the narrative says, retOrted with
Don't he angry. general, for, damme,
i can play ten times worse if ] like"
The prince of Wales not long ago
was one of a large house party, his
host being a very well-known peer.
After dinner, the royal guest, the host,
and the other male visitors repaired TO
the billard-room. On a table at the
side were two or three boxes of cigars,
and the prince was helping himself to
one, when an ambitious millionaire ap-
preached him, and taking from his
pocket a cigar-case. held it out to the
prince, saying: Il think. sir, you will
find these better" Mr.. -" replied
the prince. If a mans dinner is good
enough for me, his cigars are good
enough for me-" The millionaire was
unexpectedly called away to town next
morning on business.