The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-03-07
Personal AND LITERARY

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GENTLEMEN in Boston have received let
ters from the Siamese Twins, since their
last visit there, signed sc. & +. Rnnker /.
1t seem that as Chang and Eng only had a
name apiece, and those very brief thew
adopted as a surname the family name Of
the sisters whom they married.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL GRANT and Major
General Butterfeld visited the Produce
Exchange, in New York on Saturday, and
the former was received with great enthu-
slasm. During the visit, an excited for
eigner eagerly seized the Lieutenant Gener-
al by the coat and asked: 'sDo you know if
General Grant is here" The General
turned with a smile, and the excited one
had his curiosity gratifed.
Major j. NJ. BuSDY, formerly editor of
the Milwaukee Sentinel and for year past
on Gen. Pope's staff, has assumed the man
agement OF the New York Ereuiaq Post.
Mr.. Goodwin, the present editor, is going to
Europe for pleasure trip.
The royal Spanish infant who has recent
~ made his entrance upon the world has
received no less than one hundred and
twelve names. The official journal informs
US that these g comprehend all the invoca-
tions of the Most Holy Virgin" The Papal
Nuncio otficiated at the christening: the
godparents-the King and Queen Of the
Relgians-being represented by the Belgian
Minister and the Princess ROYAL Maria
Isabel, Of Spain. Notwithstanding this
long string of cognomens, any person
desiring to see the young gentleman can
do SO by inquiring for :. Francisco de Asis.'
The health of the venerable Lewis Cass
Ic 1xy foi IT, "a
all, and his death is daily expected
II is said that Bierstadts brush has
earned him $4,000 in the last three wears.
He has the finest team in the New York
Central Park, and is building him villa at
lrvington, on the Hudson.
WHEN lady once asked Turner, cele-
brated English painter, what his secret was,
he replied, 81 have no secret Madam, but
hard work" This is secret that MANY
never learn, and don't succeed because they
don't learn it. Labor is the genius that
changes the world from ugliness to beauty,
and the great curse to a great blessing.
Mr.. AND Mrs. JESSE ATWOOD, Of New
York, have been married 65 years. Mr..
Atwood is So years old and has voted for
every President since John Adams was a
candidate, and his wife is 81.
HERoD THE GREAT may not have died
from partaking too freely of trichina spiralis
with his roast pig, but the presumption that
ne did is supported by the historic assertion
that he was eaten by worms before the
breath was fairly out of his royal body. It
Is apparent that he died of no ordinary
disease. Other and greater men died
before Herod, but the historiographers
were at no pains to mention the particu-
lar disease that took them out of the world.
1t was reserved for an age of microscopes
to discover that the Herodian horror was
only an aggravated case Of trichina in the
stomach and viscera.
The Rev. DR.. Demarest, one of the lead
ing clergyman Of the Dutch Church, saws
the Albany Journal, left q very eligible
charge in Newark to settle in Chicago
One of the main reasons for leaving New
ark was that he had ten years labor in the
form of sermons, Of which he was DESTROYS
OF availing himself. But alas. literary
wealth, like material, will take to Itself
wings. The car Of the American Express
Company, in which were his clothes and
sermons, took fire, and all were consumed.
The Hon. William H. Seward has been
invited to pronounce an eulogium at the
next anniversary of Union College, upon the
late venerable President. Rev. Dr. Mott. A
eareer reaching from the colonial days.
when he was born, a subject of King George
the Third, to this era of the restored
Union. furnishes worthy theme for his
eloquence.
PROFESSOR MASON, a man who makes q
speciality of Milton, who has lectured upon
The poet and been for years preparing an
elaborate life, laughs at the story of flial
piety writing g Paradise Lost from paren-
tial dictation. He says the daughters of
Milton pawned his books, wished him dead,
and conducted themselves generally in q
very ungrateful and undutiful manner to-
wards their father.
AVERY neat cottage has been erected in
Red Bluff, California, as home for the
widow and three children of the famous
J ohm Brown. 1t stands on Main street in
the center of four .ots, which constitute the
estate of the family From the statements
of the Red Bluff papers. we infer that the
house and land were gift from the friends
of old ohm.
THE London correspondent of the New
York Tribune says that Charles Dickens is
on the short side of middle height, his hair
and beard almost or quite gray, the latter
worn after the French or American fashion.
with shaven cheeks, the former brought for
ward and deliberately oiled. His eyes are
dark, handsome, and vivacious, the lines
below and about them deeply defined; the
eyebrows appear thick and arched to semi
circularity. His nose is of no particular
recognized order, odd and full at the nos
trils, the humorous line running from them
to the corners of the mouth very marked
and noticeable. His complexion is not very
clear, and reddish about the rather sunhen
cheeks. He dresses in good taste, quietly,
with dainty linen.
The Hon. Caleb Cushing has contributed
$4,000 toward the erection of three Episco-