The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-02-09
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs Yates, of New Zealand, the
only lady mayor in the British do
minion, is to go on prolonged lectur-
ing tour at the close Of her term of Of
flee few months hence. She is said
to be an excellent platform speaker.
Frederick York Powell, who has
been appointed to the Regius profess
sorship of modern history at Oxford,
England, made vacant by the death of
Mr.. Froude, is a law lecturer at Christ
church, historical lecturer at Trinity,
and the author of several works of En-
glish history.
Andrew Carnegie's daily mail of
begging epistles would be large
enough to give business activity to a
rural post office. 1t is said his secre-
tary carefully considers all appeals. If
the requests made were granted in
every case Mr.. Carnegie would not
long remain in the list of millionaires.
Queen Victoria has found time in
her multifarious duties to knit n red
wool hood, which she has presented to
a hospital at Reading. The royal
memento for suffering boys and girls is
to be kept in glass case in the chill
dren's ward, where it will doubtless af-
it ut that safe distance.
Senator Cameron used to be the in
separable companion of Senator Butler,
of South Carolina. They lunched to-
gether, smoked together and went
home together at the end of the day in
the same cab. The protracted absence
of Senator Butler from Washington has
interrupted this intimacy, and Senator
Cameron's chum at present is Senator
Brice.
Benjamin Van lyle, of Hoosick
Falls, n. Y, a colored man, celebrated
the one hundred and fourteenth ami
versary of his birthday New Years
day. He was born slave in New
York state and was sold three times.
At lineage of thirteen he shook George
Washington's hand at Albany. He re-
tains all his senses and walks without
the aid of cane.
Mrs. Flora Annie Steel, who Is
pushing Kipling as writer of sketches
and stories of Indian life, is the young
est of family of three sons and two
retired Indian civilian, and more than
twenty years of her married life were
spent in India. She has acquired five
of the native Indian dialects, and can
thus pursue studies in FOLKLORE which
even learned philologists who know
only the written languages could not
accomplish.
Stark Rahman, Hindoo of CAL
cutta. India, and an adherent of the
Mohammedan faith, died the other day
in the Grady hospital, Atlanta, Ga.
Before dying he made the following
declarations: Science is great, like
God. l am nobody-a stranger in
strange land. What is man after
death but a shell? The being is gone;
the clay is left. care not what comes
of me after the breath is gone My
body may help science. l want you to
give it to the colleges"
Robert Buchanan's bankruptcy is
ascribed in part to unwarranted ex-
travagance in living. No American
writer has recently been brought into
court on account of his debts, but it is
noteworthy that successful authors in
America frequently adopt a scale of
living that seems to be mere aping Of
the ways of the rich. Nearly every
such author is driven into variety of
avocations to increase his income, and,
while few literary men earn more than
$1,000 year by strictly literary work
in their acknowledgement speciality,
several earn three or four times as much
in related occupations