The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-01
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Moore could "sing like an angel
He sang his own love songs with such
effect that a lady friend nee stopped
him in the midst of one of his best eff.
forts. please stop, Mr.. Moore; this is
not good for my SOUL.
Gov. Brown Of Maryland has an.
nounced hat lie will soon address a
communication to the governors of the
various states of the Union requesting
their cooperation in the collection OF
funds to erect a suitable monument TO
the memory of Francis Scott Key. the
composer of The Star Spangled Ban
ner."
-Cesare Lombroso, the well-known
Italian ~criminologist, who is trying to
prove that genius is madness, is a We
netian jew, whose fathers name
was Aaron Levi. He began by writ
ing tragedies at the age of thirteen,
but studied medicine and became a
specialist in mental diseases. He is
now fifty-nine years old.
Mrs. Richard Watson Glider, wife
of the editor of the Century Magazine,
was once a professional painter, but
she has now given up art because she
thought she must neglect either it Dr.
her family, and she says she hopes
non of her three or four daughters
will ever have any special talent for
anything but being nice women.
-Cheret, the father of the artistic
poster fad, is said to have grown tC
dislike that style of art and at present
he is devoting himself to pastel and
decorative painting. He is over
whelmed with orders for posters and
book-covers, but he makes use of every
possible pretext to refuse them. Aub-
rev Beardsley also has tired of this line
of work.
The queen of Corea think a great
deal about her health. She lives in
constant dread of some disease which
will prove fatal. A lady physician is
accommodated with a suite of rooms
in the royal palace. and is obliged to
visit the queen every day. When her
majesty is in the least .indisposed, she
must always remain within earshot.
The doctors salary, however, is f3, 500.
Sir L. Seymour Haden, president
of the Society of Etchers, objects to the
way in which Rembrandt's work is ex-
hibited in European galleries. As Rem
brandt etched for thirty years and used
three different processes in making
from 200 to $50 plates, Sir +. holds that
the pictures should be arranged in a
logical sequence, due weight being
given to the order of their production,
so that critical examination and COM
parison can be made.
Sir Henry Bessemer. Known in En-
gland as the steel King" has just
reached his eighty-third year, and is
said to be proverbially hale and
hearty. Sir Henry is one of the few
celebrated men who have never re-
sponded to requests for photographs or
autographs. He is a modest, retiring
man, with all his wealth and fame, and
has repeatedly expressed as his ambi-
ton, now in the. evening of life, to be
let alone. He. like Gladstone, is a
great believer in manual labor and
pedestrianism.
- ~ - OAS CANChNSu Nv N
to d in altissimo, and was one of the
most remarkable illustrations ever fur
nished of the value of musical culture
in overcoming natural blemishes. Her
voice was stubborn and unmanageable,
but by dint of study and indefatigable
perseverance she brought it to a state
of perfection that was the admiration
of her contemporaries. Her delight
was the bravura style of ornament, and
where the composer had not been suf-
iciently liberal in bestowing orna-
mentation or her part, she invented
cavatinas of her own n used them
with such effect that they were gener-
ally regarded as the best part of her
singing. She made her first appear
ance on the stage in 1915; her last in
1850.