The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-06-01
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Sir Bache Cunard. who married
Miss Maude Burke, of New York, Is the
second baronet of his line. In marry
ing an American girl Sir Bache has
followed the laudable example Of his
father.
The mother of Aubrey Beardsley,
the artist, is a gentle, old-fashioned
Englishwoman, who lives entirely foi
her son and his pretty young sister.
Mrs. Beardsley regards him with rever'
entail admiration.
An unknown work by Charles
Baudelaire, author of "Fleurs du NAL
and the model praised by the new
poets of France and England, has been
discovered, and is to be published
soon. 1t is bitter satire on the man.
pers and customs of the Belgians.
The widow of John Brown, of slav-
ery-day fame, lives in pretty cabin in
the Sierra Azure mountains, about
fifty miles from San Francisco. The
picturesque situation of her home and
the fame of her great-hearted husband
attract many visitors, who are kindly
received.
Ex-senator Edmunds, of Vermont,
who frequently appears before the SUI
preme court at Washington to argue
cases, is in more robust health than
when he retired from the senate, and
he looks younger and more brisk and
dapper, partly owing to the clothes OF
fashionable cut that he now wears.
DR. Rudolf Doehn, editor of the
Dresdener Presse, and author of sew
eral works on American history and of
translations from American poets,
died recently in Dresden at the age of
seventy. He was one of the many Ger
mans driven to America after 184S for
political reasons, but returned to his
country after Prussia's victories in
1866.
While in England Alphonse Daudet
will be in charge of Henry James, who
has made all the arrangements for his
stay. Daudet intends to study London,
as it is in part the scene of his new
story, "Soutien de Famille." Daudet
says that shortly before the publica-
ton of la Petite Paroisse," rich
Spaniard offered him one hundred and
fifty thousand francs If he would
dedicate the book to him. lie refused,
and considers the blank page to be the
best thing in the book.
The recent exhibition of regard for
Prince Bismarck has affected the old
man not little. One of his guests re-
Gently remarked to him: you must
have had many years of happiness in
seeing the reverence and affection that
the gerat German nation feel for you"
EYES," replied Bismarck, Il am happy
in that respect. Hatred is contagious,
as l have learned; but love is the
same. The great preparations for my
birthday show such love and good will
that they put all the hatred l have
ever experienced out Of my head"
"A duel arising out of the Oscar
Wilde case took place in Paris lately.
M. Jules Huret, of the Figaro, in his
literary news mentioned the names OF
the literary men whom Wilde met in
Paris, among them Catulle Mendes.
The paragraph was an innocent one,
and left no room for any suggestion
that M. Mendes had any acquaintance
with Wilde other than as foreign
man of letters. He complained, how
ever, at bringing his name in connec-
ton with Wilde's, and the Figaro ex-
pressed its regrets, leaving no ground
for offense. M. Mendes replied by an
insulting letter which left M. Huret
no choice but to fight, and in the duel
Mendes was wounded.