The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-17
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Every Friday the Duchess D'Uzes,
the wealthiest woman in France, puts
on the ordinary dress of a nurse, and,
going to the cancer hospital, acts as
one of the regular attendants, placing
herself entirely under the orders of the
superintendent
Since the death Of Holmes there
are only four surviving members of the
class of 1929 Of Harvard namely, DR..
Edward L. Cunningham, of Newport,
r. L; Rev. Samuel May (the class sec
retaryl, of Leicester, Rev. Samuel f.
Smith, of Newton, the author Of
America" and Charles s. Storrow, Of
Boston.
1t appears from a statement in the
Century Magazine that this periodical
receives an average of 5000 articles a
year from those who desire to appear
in its pages. As the most that the
magazine can possibly find room for,
on the basis on which it is conducted,
is about 400. it follows that there must
be 5000 of these articles rejected.
Mr.. Maxim is having a curious con.
troversy with the United States patent
Office, which declines to allow a patent
for his flying machine on the sole
ground. as he claims, that it is a fly
ing machine. He can patent the epar-
ate inventions of which it is made, but
that would cost two thousand dollars
and would give Indifferent protection.
M. Dupuy, as minister of the inte-
rior, has just forbidden bull fights in
France at which either bulls or horses
may be killed. At Mines. where prep
arations had been made for a series of
fights on a large scale, the prohibition
caused great excitement. Crowds pa
raded the streets demanding the fights,
and a public meeting was called to pro-
test. The court of cessation will be
called upon to decide on the validity Of
the prohibition.
Rev. DR.. Arbuthnot, vicar of STRAIT
ford-on-Avon, says that his old church
is in much the same state as it was in
Shakespeare's time. OF the few genu-
Inc relics of the dramatist preserved in
his native town the most interesting
are his signet ring, with the initials
Wv. S." on it, and the desk at which
he sat in the grammar school of STRAIT
ford. The average number of visitors
to the poets home and church is %, 600
a year, of whom about 5000 are Ameri-
ans.
james Payn says that there was a
queer resemblance between himself
and another Trinity man. "Not only
was I often addressed by persons who
took me for him, but people used to
ask, apropos of nothing, whether I
knew So-and-So. 1 remember making
a considerable impression upon a
chance passenger in a railway train on
the Cambridge line, who wa staring at
me rather hard, by suddenly observing:
No, sir; 1 do not know Mr.. So-and-So.
1t had been the very question he was
going to ask me, but my anticipating
it seemed to him so canny that he got
out at the next station"
During the years that John Newell
was president of the Lake Shore road,
it was well understood hat it was q
difficult matter to get a pass over that
line. He carried this pet idea to such
an extent that when making up his ex-
change passes he wrote across the end
of the packet addressed to President
Caldwell of the Nickel Plate these
words: Not good on limited or fast
trains" By return mail came Presi-
dent Caldwells annual pass on the
Nickel plate for President Newell.
Across its face in faring red ink and in
the bold handwriting of President
Caldwell were written the words: mot
good on passenger trains"