The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-03
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Tennyson's mother was always re-
garded By him as a model for all other
mothers. He once said: THE training
of a child is woman's wisdom"
Capt. William Penn Stedman. who
is employed in the agricultural DEPART
ment at Washington, asserts h a he
was the real captor of Jefferson Davis
at Irwinsville, Ga, May 10, 1865.
George Eliot's portrait represents
her as having a remarkably unprepos-
sessing face, with heavy nose and chin,
and thick, badly-shaped lips She
would be pronounced positively ugly.
John Chrysostom often spoke Of
the tenderness of his mother, and quite
as often of her beauty. He believed
hat the ~eloquence which gave him SO
wide a reputation was inherited from
her.
Catherine of Braganza, queen OF
Charles H.. was ~singularly gifted, both
in person and intellect, but in spite of
her beauty and her good sense, she
was never able to win the love of her
dissolute husband.
Byron ~Sturtevant, a grocer of Port
Clyde, Me-, is said to be the most oblig-
ing man in Maine. Recently one of
his neighbors wanted his horse for the
day. Mr.. Sturtevant needed the horse
in his delivery wagon, so he let him
have the horse, and wheeled his gro
ceries about town on n wheelbarrow,
going in some cases as much as a mile.
Gen. Sam Browne, as he is famil-
tally known, is one of the few men
who took a prominent part in the stir
ring events in the early history Of Col
orado. He was born May 10, 1922, in
Pennsylvania, near the battlefield of
Antietam. While a captain in the reg
ular army he resigned and was appoint
ed assistant registrar of the United
States treasury.
-Victorien Sardou, the French play
wright, was on the verge of starva-
ton, actual death staring him in the
face, when he made his first success
His recovery was due to the lady who
is now his wife. He lay in a garnet,
slowly wasting away with typhoid
fever, when 4 poor actress living in the
same building took pity upon him,
nursed him back t%olife, and afterward
introduced him to the theaterical
world.
-When Will Allen Dronfgoole, the
southern novelist, applied for the
place of e~ngrossing clerk in the Ten
nessee house of representatives sew
eral years ago she signed her applica-
ton to a member of the house: "Will
Allen Dromgoole." The answer she
received ran as follows: "Dear Bill
l got your letter all right and would
like the best in the world to give you
a Job, but II be id if 1 vote for any
man while there are so many deserv-
ing and charming young women look
ing for a position of the kind" The
woman took the hint, set the repre-
sentative right and received the ap-
poiniment.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, of Boston,
by turns abolitionist, woman sIffrag-
list, patriotic poet, prose writer and
philanthropist, is, perhaps, most prom
inently regarded by the women of
America as the stanchest sort of an adj
vocate of the formation of women's
clubs. 81 think these clubs have ac-
complished n vast amount of good"
she said recently. They have had a
wonderful educational value in broad
ening and q~uickening the opportuni-
ties of women to gain knowledge.
Persons unfamiliar with the inside
history of clubs whose membership is
exclusively feminine would be sur
prised to learn the number of good,
serious ideas hat one usually gains
by an afternoons attendance on them"