The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Henry NJ. Stanley has been heard
from again. He has about completed
his autobiography. which will tell Of
his travels and adventures. Having
embalmed himself in a book. he will
stand for parliament in the next gen.
eral election.
Mrs. George W. Cable, the wife Of
n novelist, is one of the most beauti-
full women seen in literary circles. She
has forget-me-not blue eyes, an oval
face, perfectly regular features and a
complexion like a white rose leaf-ail
this though her hair is white and her
oldest daughter just married.
The prince of Wales last year re-
ceived $4,000 from the duchy of
Cornwall estates. The property has
been well managed since Prince Albert
took it in hand fifty years ago, and the
income from rents and from royalties
from mines has greatly increased.
Over 81, COG, 900 has been put by and in
vested.
President Cleveland is said to be
apparently in better health at present
than for several years past. There is
an expression of content on his ex-
pansive face, and in place of his former
irritation of manner he displays q
cheerfulness that approaches amiabil-
ity. In other ways he shows signs of
a return of good health.
"A collection of six manuscript and
1,199 printed versions of the Limitation
of Christ" of Thomas a Kempis was
sold lately in London for $40, a sum
which probably would not cover even
the expressage paid by the collector.
To make a complete collection of all
the editions of this book is one of the
impossible feats of book collecting.
j. Takasusu, a Japanese A. B. Of
Oxford, has translated into English n
description of India and the Malay
islands, written 1,2OO years ago by 1.
Using, a Chinese Buddhist priest. The
book describes the mouastic life OBJ
served by the author in India. and con-
tains a great deal of information about
geography, chronology and literature.
The bishop of Chester. England. is
still working at his licensing reform
scheme. He said recently that the diff
ficulty in the way of all temperance
reform is hat Of compensation. The
bishop is at present at work with the
best and highest legal advice drawing
up as fair a statement as possible
first, of the case of the trade; and Sec
ondly, of the case of the nation. He
hopes to show how an equitable bal
ance of consideration can be struck
between those two great interests, and
many will wish him success in this en-
deavor.
Gen. Lew Wallace proposes to find
out why he was not compelled to pay
duty at the Detroit custom house on a
copy of Ben Hur" which he bought
on a train in Canada while on his way
to Detroit the other day. Among a
pile of books which the train boy
threw down beside him he found a pa
per-covered volume of his own work,
which the boy offered to him for TWEEN
ty-hve cents. As the book can not be
purchased in this country for less than
one dollar and fifty cents, owing to the
copyright, the general was somewhat
disturbed in his mind, and this feeling
appears to be justified, if it is really
true, as he says. that he has only re-
ceived fifteen cents from foreign pub
fishers on a book that has been trans
lated into several languages.-BostoD
Herald.