The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1895-02-01
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs. jefferson Davis has just OBJ
tanned possession of her deceased hus-
bands memoirs as result of suit
with publishers, and hopes to soon Sc
cure the sheet and plates of his "Short
History of the Confederaey."
S. Kurino, Japanese minister at
Washington, is an able, courteous
diplomat, and speaks English fiuently.
He has made many friends since he
reached the legation last August, and
is quite social lion at present.
By the death recently of Mrs. q. b.
Hyde the city of Boston comes into
the possession of bequest of $4,000,
to be used for the creation of statue,
pedestal and foundation included, to
Rufus Ghoate, the famous lawyer.
Mr. S. +. Crockett is accused by a
writer in the Academy of gross plagiar-
ism in his Raiders The parallel
column is used to show what he has
taken from volume of Historical and
Traditional Tales from the South of
Scotland published in lS43.
Mrs. Oscar Wilde. when Browning
was calling on her at one of her Sun
day afternoons, asked him to write
something in her autograph album,
wherein many famous people had writ
ten. with pleasure, "ssaid Browning,
and wrote From poet to poem. "
Marriage" says Cecil Rhoades,
the millionaire diamond mine owner
and political leader of South Africa,
"spoils "a mans or a woman's career,
because it destroys singleness of aim.
lie is consistent, at least, for he re-
mains bachelor, and will have none
but unmarried men about him.
Henry r. Pomeroy, who died re-
Gently Mt the city hospital in Indian
apolis, was the personal friend of three
presidents. He was neigh Dor of Lin
coin, companion of Grant and a close
acquaintance of Arthur. He had been
a newspaper writer and an inventor,
| but hard times and ill-luck sent both
himself and wife to the poorhouse.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes asks
that any persons having letters of DIR.
Holmes will send them to Houghton,
Mfflin & CO., with reference to their
possible use in contemplated life and
will be carefully returned to their
owners after copies have been made OF
such of them as are found to be avail
able.
The modern literary man is apt to
be cosmopolite. After many wan
behring's Robert Louis Stevenson dies in
Samoa. Kipling has been great
| globe trotter Bret Harte. Marion
! Crawford and Henry James are prac-
| tically denationalized. Julian llaw'
thorne, after much travel, has settled
down in Jamaica. Stanley j. Weyman
has wandered over Europe afoot. Conan
! Doyle has travelled much and is plan.
ming further globe-trotting.
Had Naval Constructor Lewis
Nixon chosen to stay in the navy he
might have hoped for a salary of -four
thousand two hundred dollars yeal
after twenty years service, and retire
ment on half pay at the age of sixty
two His pay at the Cramp yards is
probably double what his utmost hope
promised in the navy, and If his new
business venture succeeds he may be-
come millionaire. Yet the officers oi
| the navy, who have an old-fashioned
pride in their profession, do not per
nit themselves envy the lot of those
who go out of the service to become
rich ad distinguished in civil life.
Line officers in particular often hold
that no civil success can confer the
distinction that attaches to high naval
rank.