The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-25
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Personal and Tifararv

CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Personal and Literary.
Jenny Lind's hair is brown and
white.
Mrs. Bailey, wife of the Danburv
Neacs man, is suffering from slight stroke
of paralysis.
The late DR.. John Todd left all of his
property to his wife, believing that she has
the interest of all the children equally at
heart.
George Cary Eggleston, editor of
Hearth and Home, draws a salary of 81. 600
year, and Mary Mapes Dodge, assistant
editor, $4,000. '~'''<'n'
The Golden Age says there are not two
more habitual readers of poetry in the
United States than Charles O'Conor and
Benjamin F. Butler.
"A gentleman of Utica, N. Y, has a
manuscript copy of the four Gospels, in
the Armenian language, which was writ
ten nearly $50 years ago.
aftermath" is the title Mr.. Long.
fellow has chosen for his new volume Of
poems. He has recently visited Whittier
in company with MIR. Sumner.
Mrs. Wilkes, an English lady of rare
learning and attainments, has in the press
learned and curious work. urging the
affinity of the Hebrew and Celtic races.
Kate Field has announced her deter.
mination to climb the Pyrenees. Unless
she proceeds very carefully she is like to
complain of frey-knees before she has
reached the top.
"A writer in the London Quarterly has
theory that no poetry can live long
which is not born in the open air. The
poetry of the study is delicate and per:
ishable commodity.
Walt Whitman is recovering, and
hopes to be able TO do lots of literary work
yet. He has proved altogether too much
for the critics, and may leave the paraly.
SIS III Tic IuA III, 49, no never takes medi.
cine.
The Boston Aduertiser says that Colo
mel J. H. Devcc.reux, the new President OF
the Atlantic & Great western railroad
received 100000 as bonus ~. taxing
iiie office, and an annual salary of $50, 00v
besides
Herbert Graves, an engineer on the
Long Island Railroad, who let his engine
get out OF water, and then fled to escape
the explosion, not long since, has been
heard from in Colorado, where he is run.
ming an engine on the Pacific Railroad.
Jerome B. Stilison, the managing
editor OF the New York World, and sue.
cessor Of David G. Croly, is reported to
have $3,5OO year, while the editorial
writers, Ivory Chamberlain, VIM. H. Hurl.
e9rt ana Henry =. Schuyler have, the first
$4,000 and the other two $4,000.
The New York Eoensng Post says
1--WE learn from the best authority that the
amount paid to the heirs of William H.
Seward for the copyright of the first six
months of his Travels Round the World
was $41 AGA. The second six months be.
gan on the LIST of August, and the sale of
tue work continues rs constant and as
large as before
or Horace Gray, the newly-appointed
ChiefJustice of Massachusetts,, The Spring.
field Republican says: Judge Gray is OF
robust character morally, Intellectually,
and physically; is learned in the law, and
is deeply inhibited with the traditions OF
the Massachusetts judiciary, and will
maintain Its standard of ability and in.
tegrity with jealous care"
The Drahrna somaj, the sect of Hin.
doc Rationalists, have an English daily
paper called the Indian Mirror. But NO
paper is issued on Monday, in order ia
save the printers from labor on Sunday.
The Sunday edition is of double size
This is a step towards the religious
| observance of Sunday that some of our
good Christians would hardly take.
1.-THE Bigelow Papers," written by
James Russell Lowell about 1916, are con
siGered es containing a complete selection
of the New England dialect phrases as
used by the country people of that region
A writer in Notes and Queries," who is
a native of West Cornwall, England, says
that the "Bigelow papers, appeared tC
him, when he first read them, nearly pure
"West Cornish
On the New York Tribune the princi
pal leader writers, like Col. John Hay,
John r. G.. Hassard, Noah Brooks
Charles T. Congdon and Isaac H. Brom.
ley, get $'5 week; so does John F. Cleve
land, financial editor. William F. G,
Shanks, the city editor, receives $50 q
week; Charles Wykof, the day editor
House, the foreign editor, and Stearns, the
| night editor, $50 week, and other salaries
are in proportion.
"A life of Washington is issued by a
Yeddo publisher. This literary novelty
says correspondent, is brought out in nc
less than forty-four volumes in the
japanese characters, and is profusely
illustrated in the highest style of art
washington is presented in the clothes
and fashion of the present day, and with
moustache, carrying cane, and accom-
panied by Skye terrier. He is gazing
of q 1orvr with
| and a hideous waterfall.
Washington Irving received about
$s4O, 900 for his literary labors. In that
respect no American author has equaled
him. Bayard Taylor and Longfellow
nave made about $4,000 each by their
books. Taylor, however, has a good pro.
prietary interest in the New York
Tribune, which enables him to live in
good style abroad, though he is man
not given to show. Ofthe later American
authors, "Mark Twain" has probably
won the most coin, and he is as thrifty
with pence as with pen.
The following is given as a revised
and corrected list of the Washburns
Elihu Is. Washburne, of Illinois, Minister
to France; Cadwaldcr G. Washburn
Governor of Wisconsin; William B
Washburn, Governor of Massachusetts,
Peter T. Washburn, Ex-Governor of Yer
mont; Israel Washburn, Ex-Governor oil
Maine; w. e. Washburn, defeated candi
date for Governor of Minnesota; Henry
D. Washburn, ex-Member of Congress
from Indiana, Charles A. Washburn, OF
California, ex-Minister to Paraguay.
Industrial.
Alabama has 5000 square miles Of
coal bed.
"A bed of polishing-powder, silicifer
Gus earth, has just been found at Troy, N
II. Itcovers two acres.