Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-05-02
PERSONAL AND lMPERSONAL.

-Ismail Pasha, the late khedive Of
Egypt, at one time held shares in the
Suez Canal Co., which he sold for S20,-
900, 900 to the English government
Mrs Gannet, New Englands poet,
who wrote "'Tis Love That Makes the
World Go Round, is dead; but the love
she wrote about is turning the old
sphere.
Among the thirteen lapidaries de-
tanned at Ellis island on suspicion Of
being contract laborers is Franz Won
Reeth, who is said to be worth at least
s150,0O0 He is one of the most noted
lapidaries living, and the man who cut
the famous diamond, "Rose of Bel
gium."
The wife of the japanese mikado
is wideawake little woman who is
very active physically and mentally.
She takes much interest in public af-
fairs, and it is said that the mikado
has learned to put great deal of con-
idence in her Judgment regarding af-
fairs of great moment
"A distinguished American man of
letters was once questioned as to his
opinion of Mr.. Henry James pub
lished plays. "Well," he said, after a
moments reflection, "there seem to be
only three objections to make to them.
The first is that they are unactable,
the second is that they are unreadable,
and the third is that they are unspeak-
able"
Count Tolstoi's son Leon has just
made his debut in literature and pre-
sents striking analogy to Alphonse
Daudet's son Leon in pretentiousness,
style, and somewhat morose manner of
looking at the world. This is all the
more curious, as no French novelist of
any celebrity more closely resembles
Count Tolstoi, Sr., than does Alphonse
Daudet.
Tai Yin Chico, student of the Uni
versity of Michigan, writes to the In
dependent protesting against the use
of the word Cbinaman, instead of
Chinese. He says: "As to the word
Chinaman itself, there is certainly
nothing good or bad in it, but it some
how involves sort of contemptuous
idea which has been felt by many OF
our literary men,"
Rudolph Lehman in San Artists
"reminiscences" writes: only met
Thackeray once, in this historical old
Roman tavern, the Osteria del Falcone,
which boasts of having had Michael
Angelo among its customers When a
mutual friend introduced me to the
great novelist great in more than one
sense, for he measured six feet four
inches), said 1 had learned to read
English from his Vanity Fair" "And
that was where l learned to write it., 81
ne replied.
james Anderson, a fine old actor
whose service dates from the days oi
Edmund Kean and Macready, has just
died at London. He was such thor
oughly schooled artist as can never be
produced by modern methods and
could take any part in the whole range
of drama, having won special praise as
De Mauprat in "Richelieu," Orlando in
"As You Like It," Joseph Surface in
"a School for Scandal" and in such
heroic characters as Macbeth and
Richard Ill
Among the playthings of Miss Oh
i've Schreiner's childhood was bright
stone, about the size of walnut
which she and her brothers named the
candle-stone, on account of the beauti
full rays it emitted when held to the
light. As time went by the candle
stone was lost sight of, and not until
she had grown up did she realize thai
this plaything was a diamond of i'm
mense value. The Kimberly mines
were then unknown, but this stone hat
doubtless been washed down by some
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