The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-11-02
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-yV.I..r Blackburn 11arte. some.
time editor OF chs now defunct kuRht
Errant, and Harvey NJ. Watts. Taleoss
Williams literary assistant on the
Philad dell hia Press, are Mr. Lewis as
sistants in the editorial work on
Moods.
-=trJs widow of Jim Fisk is living
to-day in Il hH,nhle frame tenement
house in Boston on an income of $50
month, which is not from her nus
bands estate. Fisk was worth @s,UV''
600 when killed by Stokes. but 1T has
all vanished.
Lilly Langtry, when it came to tho
decisive point. hcsitated whether TO 20
on the stage or try market-garden ming.
She owned a famous garden in Jersey
Lane. and was fond OF it. When in
England she stays US much as posslDte
at her racing stable farm at Newman"
kct.
Not long ago the two-year-ol7
child of Berlin day laborer died q
starvation. The frcnzied father: to
save his darling from the potter's Held,
took the body in his arms and went
begging wherewitl1 to give 1t decent
burial. He was arrested rs a mendi-
cant. according to law, they said
The danger that besets the novel
ist who attempts to write plays Is H.
lustrated by Mr.. Zangwill in an aliec-
dote of an actress who played in an
unsuccessful comedy by distinguished
man of letters. One of her stage direc-
tions, she said. ran thus: 'Re-enter
Mary. having drunk a cup OF tea
Mr. William Morris makes high art
pay. if we may accept the calculations
of the British Printer. One OF the
latest publications of the Kelmscott
press is an edition of Chaucer. OF
yvhicl only 1926 copies were printed on
Every
one of these has been sold, over S42,
600 being realized for the ordinary
copies and nearly IS, 900 for the vcllu"
impressions.
Joe" Chamberlain is a lithe-bui1t
man of incisivc manner. with a clean
cut, smooth-shavcn face, and looks
quite two decades younger than his
years, which are tllreescore-so much
that he is often taken for his son. lie
| won his first spurs mayor OF Biz.
mingham. where he served a long and
very useful munici pal apprenticeship.
He is quite wealthy. having amassed q
large fortune in the screw trade lie
is popularity known as ''sr"mmagam
Joe"
| Joseph Thomson, the young Afrl
can explorer who recently died al
| thirty-six, was the only man who pene'
| ira ted into the interior from all four
| sides. From Morocco on the north lie
| explored Mount Atlas, from the west
he went up the Niger. from the cape
he reached the great lakes and the
| spot where Livingstone died, and from
| the east he travelled through the Masa
! country to the lakes. In all his expe
ditions he never found it necessary Il
use a revolver or rifle against 4 hu
| ma n being.
| William Morris is almost the only
one left of the original pre- Raphaelites
|
| poems arc less widely known than hi.
| relations to textile manufactures. glass
and boolSmal<ing. A reflection in some
measure Of the type of which Leonardo
da Vinci and Michael Angelo are still
| higher exemplars. his sense of beauty
has been carried into every thing hant
| or pen has touched. His twin muses.
| the one of literature, the other of prac
| teal arts, have worl Sed in happy sister
| hood for more than a generation.