Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-02-12
Personal and Literary.

--Chief.Justice Waite has eleven chill
dren.
-solon Robinson is now Corresponding
for Colorado paper.
Mrs. Secretary Delano receives calls
with knitting in hand.
The latest nonsense in literature is
fashion books for dolls.
johnny Steele, "Coal Oil Johnny"
runs meat market at jamestown, Penn.
--Fifty-three journalists died last year
risky business, that of newspaper men.
And now they say that Elliott, the
colored orator, was born and educated in
England.
General Sheridan had his pocket
picked of gold watch in Albany the
other day.
1t is rumored that Longfellow has
poem in preparation, which Is not to see
the light till October.
Mrs Smiley, the Quakeress. is Great
ing an unprecedented religious excite
ment at Lockport, N. Y.
--Ex.President Baez says he comes to
this country not for any political purpose,
but for an operation on his eyes.
--Annetta Grant, of Chicago, recently
received $3, 500 Of q. l.. Huyck, drug
gist of that city, for breach of promise.
In letter written shortly before his
death, Charles Astor Rristed declared that
IL ought to be legal to kill such inyalids
as he was.
There has recently died near Boston
an unmarried man, aged eighty, who was
a bachelor by diploma, bachelor by
celibacy and Bachelor by name.
Captain Surmont, having been "estab-
lished" and indicated, will probably as
sumo command of the French Transit
lantic Company's steamer Vile de Paris.
--Rumor has 1t that w. F. Storey, of
the Chicago Times is soon TO lead third
been divorced and his second having
died within few years.
Sergeant Bates writes from Illinois to
the London Neaos, proposing to introduce
the prairie chicken into England, Scot
land, and Ireland. He has grown tired
Of his experiments with the ungrateful
bird Of freedom.
Professor Proctor is abroad again,
throwing everybody into perspiration
with his horribly interesting assertion
that this world of ours is imperceptibly
Fastening toward he sun, into which he
declares 1t will ultimately fall.
The New Orleans Times says: "Mr.
Davis, we believe has not fixed upon his
place Of future residence, although his
family are yet temporarily in Memphis.
He indicates no disposition TO re-enter the
arena of politics, and rather avoids politi-
cal topics.s
The American Booksellers Guide
says that the book business of the year
1878 was by no means SO large or salts
factory as that of the preceding year.
The "undersclling" in most of the cities
has reduced booksellers profits to a
minimum.
Mark Twain and Dudley Warmers
"Gilded Age" is not considered literary
success. In their combined effort each
seems to have been weighed down by the
other Twain's admirers say Warner
hampered him, and Warmers friends de-
clare be ruined Twain. Perhaps they are
both right.
Charles Aston Bristed, who recently
died in Washington, was the richest liter
airy man in the country, having had an
income of x6O, 900 year II Is hardly
necessary To say that he earned no portion
of it by his pen, but inherited his fortune
through his grandfather, John Jacob
Aston.
The Oldest bank President in the
United States is probably Mr.. Eiiphalet
Williams, of Northampton, Mass He will
be ninety-five years Of age in March next.
He presided at the last annual meeting Of
stockholders Of the Northampton Ma
tional Bank, and was reelected TO the
position he has long and ably filled.
"A writer in the Cincinnati CONNER
| csal condemns the use Of &c." and in
sists that "the two good words 'et cetera' :"
| should be substituted for the ugly &c"
pMe don't think the reform can be effected.
The press has for years been trying in
vain TO teach people 10 write on only one
side Of the paper" and il doesn't feel
like entering upon any other great under
taking at present. LOsjssjtie Cpvr8ers
| Journal.
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