Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1895-12-12
PERSONAL ANc LITERARY.

When Catherine &c Medici went to
France to marry Henry H., she took
~ith her a noted ~perfunlsr. who intro
1ueed many varieties OF Italian per-
fumes.
Mrs. Flora Annie Steel, thu Anglo
indian ~nc-=list, while living in India
spent much time and labor on native
education. and prepared several books
for use in the schools. 1t was not unil
her husband resigned his Office and re-
turned TO England that Mrs Steel be-
gan to write fiction.
The late Gustav Freytag in his will
provides that al. letters in his possess
sion be returned 10 the writers. In hi.
life he used to declaim against the prac-
tice of publishing dead peoples letters,
and he directs that nothing OK his own
be printed OF which he had not author
red the publication.
-Galics. the Spanish novelist. who
Is called great Aen by his ecntem-
poraries. Is a bachelor of so. who leads
a very simple and retiring life He has
- ritten % volumes OF national episodes,
historical romance. and they have beer
uniformly popular since the first of
them, Trafalgar vas published in
1873.
"A young Swcde going by she name
Of Charles Haydenscn. who has been
employed as n farm hand In the neigh
horhood of Henderson. Ky for six
years. was discovered recently to lie a
woman. IL WAS naturally a surprise to
the hundreds Of people " no had worked
with her 50 long and had never sus-
Tecfetl her real sex
Iii Hung Chang is not as fearful of
assassination as other me in his pre-
carious position would he. He cousid-
ers his harrow escape from death in
Japan the fuldllmeut of a prediction
made to him by a Chinese mystery-mon-
ger years ago that he would dodge
death narrowly many times and live to
DC over % years Of lee-
Mr. Euskin sees very few visitors
row 1t II A. m and three D. m he
regularly takes a walk with his at
tendaEf- But even then he Is so averse
10 the eye Of the stranger hat he viii
turn into the first field. 0r get over n
hedge II possible when the gate in too
distant, rather than be stared at
Concerning ex-Quern Liliunkalani's
reported purchase Of i sumrler castle
and winter villa in italy. Hawaiian Min
ister Castle at Washington, declares:
The sx-qaeen has an income Of not
more than 5000 annually. which would
hardly warrant the e-xtravagance of
two different residences in southern
Europe
-Al-xansier Dumas complains that
he j. growing old and diSinelincd to
work and becoming faStidious TO a de-
gree as to what he writes. Moreover,
he says. and IL Is a pathetic statement
10 come from a man of 80 powerful a
pen: Il have arrived now at an age
when the best thing a man can do IS &c
hold bis tongue
Israel Zangwli has a very poor
opinion of the women writers Of our
time. He says. Amid shoals of the
formless. the didactic. the h~ystericai OF
the ungrammatieal. entirely indebted
for their superior circulation 10 the avid
srsterly sIPporto of the ladies' vhoconsti-
tute by far the larger proportion of the
reading public. a few feminine books
stand out in comparative sanity and
unity"
Anew question is agitating literary
Paris. VIII the French academy, foun-
tain Of honor, disappear when its grea,
dictionary OF the French language IS
e~ompieted2 As Richelieu treated the
academy for the sole purpose of max.
ing that dictionary, why should il sur.
vive the publication Of the book? No
body in this generation. at any rate
need woFry about the matter, as the
dictionary has not yet gone beyond the
letter a.