The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-10
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Beatrice Harraden, author OF the
marine night lire, is delighted with
"the way American girls behave about
men, Similarly the gills are delight
edwith the way tlfc men behave ABOUT
them.
Donald Frazier, president OF the
National bank of China. in hong
Kong, says that Ii Hung Chang Is
worth s50O,0OO,o0 ard has no more
patriotism than the rest OF the corrupt
Chinese officialdom.
William Pole, the great authority
on whist, who was born in fSi4, Is at
once an expert civil engineer, skill1ul
organist, and an authority on all ques-
tions relating to steam engines, rail-
ways, arrnor plate, drainage and army
ordnance.
Lady Frederick Bruce. prominent
English woman, is one Of the leaders
in the vigorous warfare now being con-
Quoted against skirt dancing, which,
it seems, is quite crowding out music
as form of entertainment in Engllsh
country houses.
Mr.. c. P. Huntington has built
granite mausoleum in Woodlawn Gene
tery, New York, whose architecture is
copied from a Doric temple and which
contains places for sixteen cotfins. Ihe
cost of this post-mortem luxury was
about S25O,o00.
Every Friday the Duches Dues.
the wealthiest woman in France, puts
on the ordinary dress OF q nurse, and,
going to the cancer hospital, acts as
one of the regular attendants, placing
herself entirely under the orders OF
the superintendent.
The German empress thinks that
the root of the servant problem lies in
the fact that mistresses are too little
concerned about their comforts. They
ought, she says, to do everything they
can to make the leisure hours of their
servants as agreeable Us possible.
Miss Dora Wells is owner and
purser of the Puget Sound steamboat
Delta, which runs from Whatcom to
the San Juan islands and Victoria, B.
c., three times a week. She collects
fares makes contracts for freight, and
takes hand in navigating the steamer.
Paul Verlaine has just presented
himself to the French academy as
candidate for the seat made vacant by
the death of Leconte de Lisle and held
before him by Victor Hugo. His can
didacy is intended as demonstration
on the part of the young school OF
poets, for in spite of his undeniable
genius Verlaines past life makes his
election even more difficult than Zola's
works make his. Verlaine is SO poor
that he is now in hospital, as he
could not afford to pay a doctor. He
is reported to have explained his can
didacy by saying; "If do not succeed
they will put in some imbecile whowill
dishonor Hugo's memory.
Some new stories of Ruskin's stay
at Corpus Christi college while he held
his profcssorship at Oxford arc told in
the Pelican Record. the undergradu-
ates' magazine. One day at dinner
one of the fellows said that Dore's il
Illustrations to Don Quixotc" seemed
to him to have considerable merit,
whereupon tears began to run down
Ruskin's cheeks. He laid down his
knife and fork saying: "You have
spoiled my dinner" Meeting tutor
on the staircase, Ruskin asked: What
are you featuring upon this term?"
The tutor answered: 's1nductive
Psychology" 20, the devil.' shouted
Ruskin, rushing Immediately up stairs
and violently sporting his oak