The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-24
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

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1t is full thirty years since W. G.
Grace, the English cricketer. made his
first century" in q big match. Yet it
was only q few days ago that he put on
one hundred and thirty-one runs
against the professionals, making the
ninety-ninth time when he has passed
the three-fgure mark.
Lady Sophia Cecil, aunt Of the Mar
| quis of Exeter, who is now ninety-four,
is the last survivor of the famous ball
| at Brussels on the night before Water
loo. She is a daughter of the Duchess
of Richmond, who gave the ball, and
danced that night with the duke Of
Brunswick, who was killed next day at
Quatre Bras.
James Mulligan, the United States
consul-general at Samoa, writes to q
friend in Lexington, KY, that Robert
Louis Stevenson is a very lively man
for n who is supposed to be in bad
health. He plays tennis for hours, and
no one can outlast him at a dance. He
will put off writing a story at any time
to attend q ball.
"A TcCcub d0ulblOu " hIlkltdEy 4AtCk-
allure is Fables from Field and Staff"
by Lieut.. James A. Frye, of Boston.
The book is the second of a series OF
stories of life among the citizen SOL
diery and the seven short stories, or
Enclosures, as the author calls them,
are brim full of pathos and humor.
Rear Admiral Albert Hastings
Morly6on tho Arofso nvr1ara~ o~d
second in command to Sir George
Tyron when the latter, with three
hundred others, was lost in the Vic
toria, was recently married in London.
The wedding cake was decorated with
a model of the Alert, which he COM
manded in the North Pole expedition
of 1876, when he reached SO deg, 2
min, 90 Sec, the highest northern alti-
tude attained by Englishmen, and only
surpassed by Brainard and Lockwood
of Greely's expedition.
Perhaps the best-natured, and at
the same time one of the wittiest, re-
joinders in religious dispute was that
made by Father OLeary to an Irish
Protestant. 81 have no objection"
said the latter, ''to have the Virgin
Mary treated with reverence, but only
as a respectable, venerable woman
just such a one as my own mother"
"Still," replied O'Leary, ''you must
allow there is some difference in the
children"
The duke of Northumberland, in
spite of his vast wealth. is very unaf-
fected and simple in his life. When
ever OF a railway, he usually takes a
third class ticket, to the Indignation
of the railway officials. One day they
determined to break him of this frugal
habit, and they filed his compartment
with chimney-sweeps carrying bags of
SCOT. When the duke arrived at his
destination, he took the sweeps to the
booking-office and bought them each a
irst-class ticket back again, and put
one in each frst-class carriage, sacks
and all.
"A fac-simile of the Soldiers Pock-
ct Bible" compiled by Edmund Gala
my in 1913 and used by Cromwell's
R~oundheads, of which only two copies,
one in the British museum and one in
the United States, are known to exist,
has just been published by Elliot Stock
in London. 1t was long supposed that
| the edition used by the army of the
Commonwealth was a very small Bible
printed by John Field, but a that was
first issued in 1853, after the civil war
was over, it can not have been the
book. The credit for the'discovery be.
longs to Mr.. George Livermore, Of
Cambridge. Mass,