Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-07-28
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

! The Living church says that the
real name of Swami Five Kananda, the
Hindoo monk now in this country, is
Noyendra Nath Dutt, lie is the son OF
q Calcutta lawyer and a graduate of
Calcutta university.
Senator John sherman has com.
pleted in the senate n term equal to
that of Benton, of Missouri. though
not continuously, as Benton did, and
has eclipsed all other senators but Will
liam r. King, of Alabama, in receiving
six elections to that body.
The novelist. Barre. is thirty-four
years old, but 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 he
writes, the pipe celebrated in "Mvl
Lady Nicotine" usually lies ready forI
use.
-Blumenthal, the great thcater man
ager OF Berlin, was once talking with
Tolstoi about lbsen, and said. Il have !
put a good many of his plays on the
stage, but | can't say that | quite un-
derstand them. Do you understand
them?' 'lbsen doesn't understand
them himself" Tolstoi replied; 'hc
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
the United States by say ing %flatter-
ing things about American authors.
ne likes the work of Riley, Cable. and
Miss Jewett, but he is especiallv .
with Mary t. Wilkins, whom .
lie considers IA singularly gifted wom- x
H. VINO writes as no one else in Amer
ca wr'tes'-which might be dubious i
raise, but is really intended for a high
ompliment. S
-tapt' Mahan, L. s. N, who has
cen receiving such unusual bonors n
ON England, is extremely modest by \
After he had finished
lie manuscript of his remarkable work
sea Power" early in the year 1889, o.
; submitted it to II literary man in 70
ew York, making the characteristic d,
mark that it was "a conscientious n
zee of work. The New York littera. IN
ur found it a good deal more than en-
al, ana strongly advocated its pub.
ation. 1t has made Mahan famous ii;
hilbert A'Bcckett celebrated his en-
to the office of magistrate at OF
= Greenwich police court by a char ,
'erlstic pun. A gentleman came be- of
e nm to prefer a charge of robbery !
violence, committed in the middle q,
the night. In stating his ease he mo
'ntloned that the assault occurred for
NE ne was returning home from an =,
party. The worthy maris. nae
te interrupted him by observing. col,
'ally, sir, | can not make I'M nv
IA to accept anything like an ex-
tie statement" Is
10 'he kuslillght, a charming peri M
III edited and published by the mas
'hers and pupils of Wheaton sem ,cmm
~ Norton, Massachusetts. Miss
an Hayes Ward has contributed n Il
ghtfuI memorial of Lucy Larcom. inns
> harcom fame rests chiefly upon 7,
poetry ana deeply religious works stall
rose nut She was "A very successful
i,er' II spent several useful years erid,,
mat congenial profession. Miss "
u was n OF her pupils at Wheaton, tn
tne acquaintance there begun rim. carr
INTO a e%ongenial friendship which
u until interrupted by Miss Lar Tn
S death. New
cunt Raphael Cohen, head Of tho WI
JUS Belgian banking firm. who mr.. '"'
MS title of count, has Il tendency GE
.he name of Cohen and to re-. conn
'nac OF Antwerp, Anvers being tbe In
equivalent of Antwerp, Count his c,
countess G.. d'Anvers sounding -
better than Cohen of Antwerp
aaron ~oppenheim, who was aware
Is weakness on the part of the Ant tn
cohens, finding, on one occasion It. a
names inscribed on the registero Of are IN
ell as "Comte ct Comtessc G. I,An. n nnsIlY
wrote his own name immediate,v 50; ,,DK q Z
"ca'h as "Baron O, de Cologne" Pr
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