The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-29
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Sir John Lubbock is the one man
Of the present age who has won dis
tinction both as a man of letters, a
scientist, a politician and man.
-Carrica LIE Favre, in her writings
and talks on art and aesthetics, frowns
on mans conventional shirt. She says
that starch and bleaching destroy the
artistic value and beauty of everything
thus treated.
The Princess Marcellina Radzivill,
who died in Warsaw not long ago,
was the daughter of the Prince Radzi-
will who paid for the education of
Chopin. The princess herself was one
of Chopin's most promising pupils.
Col. F. C.. Pierce, of Chicago, is en-
gagged in compiling the genealogy of
the Whitney family of Massachusetts,.
The immigrant ancestor settled there
In 1885. He has thus far succeeded in
securing the names of thirty-thousand
descendants of the original immigrant.
Giuseppe Bandi, the Leghorn edi-
tor who was killed by an anarchist
poniard in revenge for his denouncing
anarchists in general and the assassina-
ton of Carnot in particular, was one OF
Garibaldis thousand heroes of Mar
sala," who conquered Sicily for the
Italian people.
Miss Eleanor Hewitt, the oldest
unmarried daughter of ex-Mayor Hew-
tit, has been roadmaster at Ringwood,
where their country home is situated,
for several years, and a very good one
she has been, too. An article on road
making has been contributed to a New
York weekly recently by Miss Hewitt.
The new Walt Whitman society has
adopted the name of 1.-THE Walt Whit
man Fellowship" and after the fashion
set by the poet himself the members of
the little coterie address each other as
''comrade." Daniel G. Brinton is presi-
dent of the society and Col. Bob" In
gersoll and John Burroughs are vice
presidents.
M. de Paris Oeibler) is generally
hooted and Stunned whenever he trav-
els for an execution; but lately, when
on a visit to Rouen, he was the hero of
the day. He went there to guillotinea
man named Gamelin, who had NAL
treated and murdered a little girl. The
feeling against the criminal was so
strong that the ~eXecutioner was re-
spectfully saluted as the most admir-
able representative of justice.
BY the death of old Lord Denman
the British house of peers loses one of
its greatest cranks. Whenever Lord
Salisbury would get upon his legs to
make a speech Lord Denman would at
once rise to address the house, with the
deliberate object of talking down the
marquis. AS he was stone deaf he would
pay no heed to expostulations on the
part of his brother peers or of the lord
chancellor as presiding officer, and was
to be stopped from further utterance
only by being dragged down into his
seal by his long coattails.
President Casimir-Perier is one of
the best-guarded rulers in Europe. A
flying brigade of police agents, in civil
ian costume, has been created to follow
the president step by step wherever he
goes. When NJ. Casimir-Perier is about
to start from the Elysee the prefecture
of police is apprised by telephone of the
place to which he is going, as well as
of the route he is to take. Before he
has crossed the gate of the palace a
carriage is already on the street, with
orders to follow the presidential con
veyance and not to lose sight of it.
This maneuver is repeated several times
daily.