The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-12-12
Personal and Literary.

Ruskin recently remarked to a
friend that in two years his time for
going TO bed and for rising in the
morning has not varied fifteen min
utes. Ruskin is not subject 10 the com
plaint known a. katzenjanmer
Dean Hole, who will lecture in tbs
country for the benefit Of the Roche
Ter Eng. cathedral, is known 10 many
by a volume Of entertaining memoirs,
full Of agreeable gossip about Thack-
cray, Leech, Dickens, and Others. The
volume showed the discriminating
mind of the author.
DR.. Holmes was spoken 10 some
time before his death about elsie Ven
ner," and said, in reply, that it was
many years since he had looked at the
book, and that, though the people in iI
were mostly portraits, they had begun
to fade completely from his mind. lie
seemed 10 remember only one Of them
at all definitely.
Lord Robert will publish early
next year his "reminiscences Of more
than forty years of service in India,
from subaltern 10 commander in chief.
His career includes the period Of the
mutiny Of lSj7-S with the siege Of
Delhi and the relief Of Lucknow, the
expedition to Abyssinia, the war in
Afghanistan, and the m1rcI 70 Kanda-
har
Prof Sayce, Of Oxford, has Just
shown that the Sar1anapaIus Of
Ktesias and Lord Byron Is not Assur-
bani-pal, ~ Hssyriologists have hither-
to supposed, but Assur-dain-pal, the
rebel king Of Assyria, who ruled from
s27 To SD before Christ. The names
and the history correspond, and
Belesyy, the Babylonian who appears
in the Greek accounts, is Balasu, the
Babylonian contemporary OF Assur-
daia-pal.
BY the death of Giovanni Battista
de'Rossi, Max Muller becomes the old
est foreign member of the Academic
dies Inscriptions, to which he was
elected twenty-five years ago. The
only other foreign members are Sir
Henry Rawlinson Ernst Curtius, the
historian TheOdOr Won Sickel, the
photographer and director or the Aus
trian institute at Rome; Mr. Whitley
Stokes, the Celtic scholar; and Prof.
AscoIi of Milan, the philologist.
The great French comic-singer,
Paulus, should be q rich man. In adj
ditiOn to his income a a performer
which i small, a. his popularity has
greatly fallen Off-and the proceeds of
his vineyard, he i the proprietor Of the
music-publishing firm which issued t6
name no Others the two famous songs,
EN- Reyenant de Ia Revue" and "Pere
Ia Victoire,n Of which nearly five hun
dred thousand copies have been sold ar
fifty centimes each. A. the expenses
Of production are covered by the sale
of the first thousand, the profits must
be enormous.
At the Paris conservatory, then
under the direction Of Cherubini, Ber-
lioz was an unruly genius, and not in
favor with his teachers, especially the
precise and classical Cherubini. One
examination day, Cherubini was run
ming over a piece which Berlioz had
submitted, when he came upon COM
plete rest Of tWJ measures. What is
that?" he asked, in mis- usual i'll
natured tone. MIR. Director" said the
pupil, Il wished to produce an effect
which thought could best be pro-
duced by silence" 'Ah, you thought
il would produce a good effect upon
the audience il you suppressed two
measures - ''YeS, sir.n VERY good
Suppress the rest; the effect will be
better still"