San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-25
On" ~ Ir"iG'S SuperstitiOns.
The natives bci;eya that elephants
have q religion and form Of worship.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

line naJlNeS DCi:tHE NlldJ SltVNduiS
have q religion and form Of worship.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
When Catherine de Medici went to
France to marry Henry H., she took
with her a noted perfumer, 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. 1t was not until
her husband resigned his office and re-
turned to England that Mrs. Steel be-
gan to write fiction.
The late Gustav Frey t; g in his will
provides that all letters il his possess
sion be returned to the WI ters. In his
life he used to declaim aga st the prac-
tice of publishing dead peo les letters,
and he directs that nothir Of his own
be printed of which he hat. lot author
lied the publication.
--Galdos, the Spanish ,veBst, who
is called great even by lis contem-
poraries, is bachelor Of }, who leads
very simple and retiring ife. he has
written 20 volumes of matte II episodes,
historical romance, and thy have been
uniformly popular since ne first of
them, Trafalgar" was olished in
1873.
"A young Swede going J the name
of Charles Haydensen, . has been
employed as farm hand the neigh
borhood of Henderson, Kv., for six
years, was discovered recently to be
woman. 1t was naturally a surprise to
the hundreds of people who lad worked
with her so long and had never sus-
rected her real sex.
Iii Hung Chang is not as fearful of
assassination as other men in his pre-
carious position would be. He consid-
ers his narrow escape from death in
Japan the fulfillment of prediction
made to him by a Chinese mystery-mon-
ger years ago that he would dodge
death narrowly many times and live to
be over 80 years of age.
Mr.. Rusl<in sees very few visitors
row. At IL a. IN. and three p. m. he
regularly takes walk with his at
tendant. But even then he is SO averse
to the eye of the stranger that he will
turn into the first field, or get over a
hedge if possible when the gate is too
distant, rather than be stared at.
Concerning ex-Queen Liliuokalani's
reported purchase of summer castle
and winter villa in Italy, Hawaiian Min
lister Castle at Washington, declares:
1.-THE ex-queen has an income of not
more than S., 900 annually, which would
.hardly warrant the extravaganza of
two different residences ID southern
Europe"
Alexander Dumas complains that
he is growing old and disinclined to
work and becoming fastidious to de-
gree as to what he writes, Moreover,
he says, and it is pathetic statement
to come from a man Of so powerful a
pen; 81 have arrived now at an age
when the best thing a man can do Is to
hold his tongue"
Israel Zangwill has very poor
opinion of the women writer's of our
time. He says: amid shoals OF the
formless, the didactic, the hysterical or
the ungrammatical, entirely indebted
for their superior circulation to the avid
sisterly support of the ladieswho consti'
tute by far the larger proportion OF the
reading public, few feminine books
stand out in comparative sanity and
unity"
"A new question is agitating literary
Paris: VIII the French academy, foun
tain of honor, disappear when its grea'
dictionary of the French language IL
completed? AS Richelieu created the
academy for the sole purpose of max
ing that dictionary, why should it sur
yiye the publication of the book? No
body in this generation, at any rate
need worry about the matter, as tn
dictionary has not yet gone beyond tn
letter A