The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-26
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Henry Somerset, the son sof Lady
Henry Somerset, will devote his spare
time while wintering at Boston to COM
pleting his book, ain which he will
describe his recent explorations in the
Hudson bay territories.
/ William Cullen Bryant began tc
write verse when he was only ten years
old. At that tender age he received a
n~ine-penny coin from his grandfather
for a rhymed version of the first
chapter of the book of Job.
-Grandin, the pedestrian and Paris
ian journalist, who last year went On
| foot from New York to Chicago, has
for the last four months been tramping
over Algeria, Tunis and the extreme
south of the Barbary states.
Miss Dora Reade Goodale, the poet
of the Berkshire hills, whose sister
Elaine married DIR. Eastman, a Dakota
Indian, a few years ago, is engaged &c
be married to Prof. Thomas Sanford.
of the University of California.
I'm the valedictory of the Newark
On. J.) Morning Times, which suspend
ed recently, Thomas c. Barr observes
that all he has to show for his invest
ment OF $500, 900 are copies of the first
and last issues, which he will preserve
as mementoeS.
-kipling, Barrie, Jerome, Howells.
Stockton, Stedman, Mark Twain, Bret
Harte, Boyesen, Saltus, are none OF
them above medium height, and sew.
eral of them are actually diminutive.
Marion Crawford and Conan Doyle are
tall, athletic-looking men, but they
are the exceptions that prove the rule.
Thomas Foster, who has just been
sentenced at London to three years
penal servitude for a number of petty
frauds, was the originator of the miss
ing word" craze, of which newspapers
all Owe the country some time ago
availed themselves to boom circulation.
He has been living on his wits for
years.
Paintings and designs by Bartram
Hiles, an armless artist, are now IN
exhibition in London. Mr.. Hiles lost
his arms, close to the shoulder, when
a child, by being run over by a horse
car, and is obliged to paint holding
the brush between his lips. He won,
nevertheless, in open competition, the
national scholarship of five hundred
dollars a yeara t south Kensington, and
at the same time obtained a first prize
for modelling in clay. He paints land
scape.
-Rubinstein had probably travelled
more than any other virtuoso. In his
time he made many fortunes, and gave
them away to the poor in Russia. Dur
ing the famine which ragged among the
Russian peasants a few years ago, he
journeyed to Vienna, Moscow and st.
Petersburg to play for charity. The
price of seats rose to ~unheard-of fig
ures, but every penny of the money
went to the starving farmers. 1t is
said hat in the purse of twenty-eight
years the sum which he Illus disposed
of amounted to $3.50 O00.
The former teacher of the present
czarina says that she was brought up
almost entirely as an English girl, de-
spite her German birth. The family
spoke English exclusively, their plays
were English and the governess of the
princess was English. Her German is
consequently spoken with a foreign ac-
cent. The teacher thinks the princess
will make an excellent wife for the
| ear, and one who will never bother
herself about politics. She has no in
terest, he says, in politics, and was not
educated to have any interest in it..
She was brought up, in fact, as the
daughter of a family of the middle
| class