Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-02-26
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


although in his s7tb year, still teaches
dancing, and Is said to be rs active as
a vigorous man of so During his.long
career as a dancing master he has had
%, 900 pupils.
"A king who objects TO music is
King George of Greece, whose pet
aversion is the national hymn Of the
country over which he reigns. No
matter where the unfortunate man
goes, either at home or abroad, he is
compelled to listen to the strains of this
melody, which is invariably struck up
in his honor.
The eminent French author, Nj.
Anatole Leroy Beaulieu. once made
remark which may be instructive at
this time. "The character" he said,
lis what changes the least in a race.
Among the French of the Third repub-
lie, one can yet find characteristic
traces of the Gauls of the time of We
reingetorix.
Mime. Casimir-Perier, wife of the
now ex-president of the French re-
public, has organized a crusade against
the use of birds and wings for decora-
tive purposes, and movement thus au-
thorized is likely to be attended with
success. If Paris gives the word of
course, England and America will
abandon this barbarous custom; other
wise these countries may find plague
descending upon them rivaling those
of Europe.
-Apropos of the death of Robert
Louis Stevenson, "H." writes this to
the London Times: Seven years ago
| lay i'll in San Francisco, an obscure
journalist, quite friendless. Steven.
son, who knew me slightly, came to
my bedsids and said: Il suppose you
are like all of us, you don't keep your
money. Now, if a little loan, as be-
tween one man of letters and another
-eh? This to lad writing rubbish
for a vulgar sheet in California;!
The PETER of Europe would APP
pear to be Count Laszlo Szapary OF
Buda-Pest. When the civil marriage
legislature he made solemn VOW that
he would not cut his beard, though it
might grow to the tips of his toes, I'M
til DR.. Wekerle gave up his post. When
Dr. Wekerle resigned, as he did few
weeks ago, the count had his enormous
black beard shaved and went to take
his seat in the reichstag. Nobody rec
ognized him and he came near being
turned out.
Susan b. Anthony is cheerful. She
says: while it is true that women
have only secured full suffrage in two
states, they have secured partial or
local suffrage in more than ten thou
sand communities. The only differ
ence that remains. the last surviving
relic of the age when woman was chat
tel property and was the savage slave
of still more savage lord remains to
be wiped away. When this is done,
for the first time in the world we will
have perfect liberty and perfect equal
ity."
Does literature pay? According to
the late Mr.. John Addington Symonds,
there is no worse profession. Speaking
of his book on the Renaissance in
out these two the LAST volumes, |
shall have had in all 81, 100 for this
long bit of work Allowing for periods
in which was unfit to work-perhapS
in which | sought a change of work i
find that | have spent eleven years up
or this task, and pretty hard years of
daily labor. The education which en-
abled me to attempt it was a very cost
ly one, and the abilities which quail
fed me for it; though not frst-rate,
were at least unusual in their cOmbina-
ton of many-sided intelligence with
acquired knowledge and literary style.
I have, then, been paid at the rate of
800 per annum; but | must deduct at
least $50 per annum from my gains for
books and travel, quite indispensable
to the production. Shis, | reckon, is
really far below the just allowance.
Say, then, | have received $50 year
during the eleven best years of my life
for the execution of laborious work,
which implied an expensive education
and unusual cast of intellect The pay
is about equal to the wages of a third
class merchants clerk or a second-class
butler, the latter being also found in
food and lodging"