The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-15
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Field Marshal Yamagata of Japan is
TO be present at the anniversary exer-
clses of Queen Victoria during the
coming summer.
Mrs. Langtry possesses a dressing
bag. which is, perhaps, the costHest of
its kind. 1t is adorned with jeWeled and
gold fittings and cost $500
Mother Mckinley enjoyed her visit to
Washington, but she is well content to
be back in her comfortable home in
Canton, where the neighbOrs drop in in
a friendly way after breakfast, and oc-
casiOnally send in hot rolls and fresh
rhubarb pie for luncheon.
Miss Florence Marryatt, the novelist.
mas ever since her first great success
entertained kindly feeling toward her
less fortunate brethren of the pen. She
mas always endeaVOTed to assist Strug-
Cling authors in their work, and it is
no uncommon thing for her to receive
copies of manuscripts which anna tours
have sent for her perusal And it is
seldom these manuscripts are returned
without some correction and kindly ad-
vice.
The Literary World publishes a para
graph out of a private letter from r. D.
Blackmore, in which the venerable au-
thor of Lorna DOOne" says that TO
Americans the English language owes
nearly all of its new expressions. There
does not seem to be left in US the pow
er to hit out a new spark of language.
We are like lot of boys with their
hands in their pockets, looking on at the
blacksmith and racing for his red
chips M
The king of Siam, who proposes to
visit England during July and August,
is said to be the best looking man in
his own country, where he is very pop
uiar To DR.. Gowan, his late body
physician and intimate friend, the king
owes his knowledge of English. He
has read many English books, novels
chiefly, and every day for a long time
'.Arab ian Nights" to his children be-
fore the latter were quite able to read
that book for themselves.
Lord Hugh Cecil, son of Lord Sails
bury, shows the promise of a great ca
reer. Mr. Bryce in a recent speech paid
the young member a marked cOmpi-
ment, and London radical journal,
opposed as it is to the politics of the
Cecils. says of him that he ''unites with
unquestiOned Intellectual power a Ger
tain nobility of feeling and elevation of
character that remind US now and then
of what, by the testimony of his con-
temporaries, the young Gladstone must
have been"
Mr.. Coningsby Disraeli. Lord Bea-
cOnstield'5 nephew and heir, was re
Gently married to Miss Silva in Lon
don.
Calve is to be painted as Carmen
by the French artist. Benjamin Con-
slant. The picture will be placed in the
dome of the Opera Francois, Paris.
Field Marshal Wolseley has written a
preface to THE Soldiers Song Book
just published in London which con-
tains "a favOrite army ballads. selected
by regimental adjutants.
One hundred pen and ink drawings by
the late George Du Maurier, which be-
long to his estate, have just arrived in
New York from London. They are the
originals of his famous satirical single
illustrations well known in Punch
It is said that Nine. CaIve has named
the three highest mountains on her es-
tate in the Cevennes after three of her
favOrite operas-CaEmen, Cavalleria
and Navarraise.
Wendell Phillips, like Mr.. Moody, ap-
preciated the power of newspaper pub
Hcity. Maj. Pond tells us that when he
was interrupted and prevented from be-
ing heard once by an unfriendly audi
ence he stopped down and began talk
ing in low voice to the men at the re-
porters' table. Some of the auditors,
becoming curious, called Louder"
WhereupOn Phillips Strengthened him
self up and exclaimed: Go right on,
gentlemen, with your noise. Through
these pencils''-pOintiUg to the reporters
u speak to 10000. 900 people,"
James Robinson, the famous bareback
rider. who began his career in 1S45, is
still living in Mexico, No, with his wife
The feat which won him fame was per
formed in 1849. This was turning
back son1ersault while riding back
ward on a running horse. He did the
same trick afterward before half the
SovereignS of Europe, and won especial
praise for his daring from the queen Of
England. He retired from the circus
ring with a fortune, ana although it is
nearly ten years since he appeared be-
fore the public, he says that with 80
days training he could perform with
as much agility as ever.