Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1895-06-20
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-tdlA nauiAtOu WAS hh>F at WORK
on biography Of Mr. Blaine when she
was stricken with paralysis All the
secretary's private papers were intrust-
ed to her. and she consequently en-
joyed facilities denied To most biogra-
piers.
MIR. Percival Lowell, of Boston.
who erected and equipped a fine tenn
Porary observatory in Arizona last wear
merely for the purpose of studying the
planet Mars, announces that he will
have tweuty-four-inch telescope made
by Clark for further research in the
same direction.
The last % the Fighting Nc
Cooks" namely. Maj Gen. Alexander
Mcdowell McCoolx, after having been
continuously in the service of the
United States for forty-three years. has
now been retired from the army. This
step was made necessary by our law,
since the general has reached the age
of siSty-four years.
Miss Julia r. Underwood has been
teaching in the public schools Of
Quincy. Mass. for forty years. She be-
gan at the age Of sixteen. and has kept
at the front in the progress of educa.
tioual methods. As model teacher in
a model school town, she has received
offers from nearly every state In the
union. and from the famous school for
the blind in London.
The mother Of Turenne, the great
French general, gave her son his bent
toward military matters. She caused a
number Of toy cannon to he made for
his amusement, and herself aided him
To plant these miniature batteries on
little hilloc<s in the garden, showing
him how a battery should be placed in
order 10 command hostile position.
ten. Gordon, of Georgia, tells the
following story Of the war period to
illustrate the shrinkage Of the con
federate currency: "One day a cavalry
man rode into camp on a reasonably
good horse. Hello. eavaIrymsn,' said
a foot soldier, I'll give you $1,000 for
your horse. You go 10 the bad
piacei.' was the horseman's reply. 1
just paid 81 900 10 have him curried-
The empress Of Austria has a Curl
Gus dislike for flowers. II is said that
she can not bear to sit in a room where
they are. When she was last in En-
gland her apartments at the hotel
were lavishly decorated with the
choicest blooms. but directly the royal
steward arrived he requested that all
the flowers might be removed before
the empress came. 50 that she might
neither see nor smell them.
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cisco 20 place in the old plaza n simple
drinking fountain a. a memorial %
Robert Louis Stevenson. Readers OF
The W reelSers- do not need tn be re
minded that, in his later as in his ear
lier years. Stevenson had many asSo-
Citations with California; and San
Francisco will do well To honor. in this
public way and simple fashion, one of
the most interesting Of modern men.
French books, especial Y novels and
text books, are abundant at the old
book stores, and sell rapidly. German
books Of heavier kind are also pleuti-
full Italian books are scarce. and they
rumain lorg on the shelves The same
j. true To an even greater degree o.
spanish books Works in the Hebrew
jargou are seldom found save in the
Hebrew quarter Latin and Greek
tsxt books are abundant and cheap,
and one bookseller Is offering large
devotional work in manuscripts in
Latin at ten cents Another seconi-
band bookseller reports a demand for
swedish books.
oliver Wendell Holmes was talk
ing with a friend one day. says a
writer in The Interior, Of Chicago,
when the conversation turned upon
his classmates who were living
Now. there's smith," he said. His
name viii be honored by every school
child in the land zen have been for
gotten a hundred years lie wrote
My Country, lis of Thee II be had
said Our Country" the hymn would
not have been immortal: but that my
was n master stroke. Everyone who
sings the hymn at once feels a per-
sonal ownership in his native land.
The hymn will last as long as the
country"