The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-12-11
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

When Catherine de Medici went to-
France 10 marry Henry II. she took
with her a noted pcrfumer. who intro
duced many varieties of Italian per-
fumes.
Mrs Flora Annie Steel. the Anglo
Indian novelist, while living in India
spent much time and labor on native
education. and prepared several books
for use in the schools. twas not until
her husband resigned his Office and re-
turned 10 England that Mrs. Steel be-
gan to write fiction
The late Gustav Freytag In his will
provides that all letters in his posses
sion be returned 10 the writers In his
lite he used 10 declaim against the prae-
tice of publishing dead peoples letters.
and he directs that nothing OF his own
be printed of which he had not author,
lied the publication
-Galdos, the Spanish novelist who
Is called great even by his contsm-
Poraries. is . bachelor of SO. who leads
a very simple and retiring life. He has
written 20 volumes of national episodes.
historical romance. and they have been
uniformly popular since the first OF
them, Trafalgar" was published In
1873.
A young swede going by the name
of Charles Haydensen, who has been
employed as q farm hand IN the neigh
borhood OF Henderson, KY, for six
years, was discovered recently 90 be
woman. It war naturally surprise 10
the hundreds of people who had worked
with her so long and had nsysr sus-
Tected her real sex
Iii Hung Chang Is not "a fearful Of
asSassinat ton as other men Ia has pr~-
carious position would be- he eonsid-
ers his narrow escape from death in
Japan the fulhllment of a prediction
made TO him by Chinese mystery mon
ger years ago that he would dodge
death narrowly many times and live ~
be over 80 years of age.
MIR. Ruskin sees very few visitors
row. At IL q. M. and three p. ID. he
regularly takes q walk with his at
tendant- But even then he is 80 sverss
to the eye of the stranger that he will
turn into the first field. or get over n
hedge IL possible when the gate is too
distant. rather than be stared at.
Concerning ex+Queen Liliuokalanrs
reported purchase OF summer castle
ard winter villa In Italy. Hawaiian Min
lister Castle at Washington. deeiarssi
The ex-queen has an income Of nos
more than 5000 annually. which would
hardly warrant the extravaganza OF
two different residences In southern
Europe"
Alexander Dumas complains that
he is growing old and disinelined IN
work and becoming fastidious 20 a de-
gree Gs 10 what be writes. Moreover.
be says, and IL is a pathetic statement
to come from q man OF % powerful
pent Il have arrived now ~ al age
when the best thing a nlAn can do 10 to
hold his tongue"
--Israel ZangwiIl has . very poor
opfnion of the women writers of our
time. He saysi amid shoals ot the
formless, the didactie, the hystericAl or
the ungrsnBatical. entirely indebted
for their superior circulation to tkearid
sisterly support of the ladisswhSeonsti-
tute by far the larger proportion Of ths
reading public, q few feminine books
stand out In comparative sanity sEd
unity"
A new question 10 sgitatins literary
Paris. VIII the French sosessny. fovn-
tain Of honor, disappear when its great
dictionary OF the Freneh isnKuAgs 10
compIeted7 A. Riehelisn created ths
academy for the sole purpcss OF max
tng that dictionary. why skou!d 10 sur.
sise the publication OF Tia DOOk7 SS-
body in thls generation. .; any rate,
need worry s0out tho matter. a. tAs
dictionary hss not ys, goss bsy0nd tAs
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