The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-08-02
PERSONAL { AND LITERARY.

The Living church says that the
real name Of Swami vive Kananda, the
Hindoo monk now in this country, is
Novendra Nath Dutt. He is the son OF
Calcutta lawyer and graduate OF
Calcutta university.
Senator John Sherman has, COM
pleted in the senate a term equal to
that Of Benton, Of Missouri, though
not continuously, as Benton did, and
has eclipsed all other senator's but VIII
liam R. King, of Alabama, in receiving
six elections to that body.
The novelist, Barre, is thirty-four
years old, bat SO ..boyish as to look
younger. His figure is slight and
small, his face pale, thin and sensitive
and his head rather too large for his
body. On the small desk at which ne
writes, the pipe celebrated in Sly
Lady Nicotine" usually lies ready fog
use.
-glumenthal, the great theater man
ager of Berlin, was once talking with
Tolstoi about Ibsen. and said: II have
put a. good many of his plays on the
stage, but can't say that quite un-
derstand them. Do you understand
them?" "Ibsen doesn't understand
them himself" Tolstoi replied; The
Just writes them, and he sits down and
waits. After awhile he expounds and
explainers come and tell him what he
meant"
Conan Doyle has begun to pave the
way for his approaching lecture tour
of the United States by say ing fiatter-
Ing things about American authors:
He likes the work of Riley, Cable, and
Miss Jewett, but he is especially
charmed with Mary E. Wilkins, whom
he considers "a singularly gifted WON
an, who writes as no one else in Amer
ica writes"-which might be dubious
praise, but is really intended for high
compliment.
Capt. Mahan, u. 9. N, who has
been receiving such unusual honors
from England, is extremely modest by
temperament After he had finished
the manuscript of his remarkable work
on 'sSea Power" carly in the year 1889,
he submitted it to a literary man in
New York, making the characteristic
remark that it was "a conscientious
piece of work" The New York littera-
teur found it a good deal more than
that, and strongly advocated its pub
! lication. It has made Mahan famous.
Gilbert A'Beckett celebrated his
elevation to the office of magistrate at
the Greenwich police court by char.
acteristic pun. A gentleman came be-
fore him to prefer n charge OF robbery
with violence, committed in the middle
of the night. In stating his case he
mentioned that the assault occurred
while he was returning home from an
evening party. The worthy magis'
trate interrupted him by observing
"Really, sir, I can not make up my
mind to accept anything like an ex'
parte statement"
To the Rushlight, charming peri
odical edited and published by the
teachers and pupils OF Wheaton sem
mary, Norton, Massachusetts,. Miss
Susan Hayes Ward has contributed a
delightful memorial of Lucy Larcoln.
Miss Larcoms fame rests chiefly upon
her poetry and deeply religious works
in prose; but she was very successful
teacher, and spent several useful years
in that congenial profession. MISS
Ward was one Of her pupils at Wheaton,
and the acquaintance there begun rip
ened into congenial friendship which
lasted until interrupted by Miss Lar
CONS death.