The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-01
PERSONA AND LITERARY.

-Ruskin recently remarked to b
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 to the
complaint known as katzenjammer.
Dean Hole, who will lecture in this
country Cor the benefit of the Roches-
ter (Eng.) cathedral, is known to 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.
DIR. Holmes was spoken to 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 it
were mostly portraits, they had begun
to fade completely from his mind. He
seemed to remember only one of them
at all definitely.
Lord Roberts will publish early
next year his "reminiscences of more
than forty years of service in India,
from subaltern to commander in chief.
His career includes the period of the
mutiny of 1878 with the siege of
Delhi and the relief of Lucknow. the
expedition to Abyssinia, the war in
Afghanistan, and the march to Kanda-
har.
Prof. Sayce, of Oxford, has just
shown that the Sardanapalus OF
Ktesias and Lord Byron is not Assur-
bani-pal, as psychologists have hither-
to supposed, but Assur-dain-pal, the
rebel king of Assyria, who ruled from
1877 to $50 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-
dain-pal.
BY the death of Giovanni Battista
de'Rossi, Max Muller becomes the old
est foreign member of the Academic
des Inscriptions, to which he was
only other foreign members are Sir
Henry Rawlinson; Ernst Curtius, the
historian; Theodor Won Sickel, the
photographer and director of the Aus
trian institute at Rome; Mr.. Whitley
Stokes, the Celtic scholar; and Prof.
Ascoli of Milan, the philologist.
The great French comic-singer,
Paulus, should be a rich man. In ad.
dition to his income as a performer
which is small, as his popularity has
greatly fallen off-and the proceeds of
his vineyard, he is the proprietor of the
music-publishing firm which issued Ito
name no others the two famous songs,
"En Revenant de la Revue" and 'Pere
la Victoire," of which nearly five hun
dred thousand copies have been sold at
fifty confines each. AS 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 vas 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 a com
plete rest of two What is
that?' he asked, in his usual ILL
natured tone. "Mr. Director" said the
pupil. 81 wished to produce an effect
which 1 thought could best be pro-
duced by silence" "Ah, you thought
it would produce a good effect upon
the audience if You suppressed two
measures??" Yes, sir" Very good.
Suppress the rest; the effect will be
better still"