The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-09-24
Personal and Literary.

"A. L. Stewards advertising bill ag-
gregatcs about 100000 year
Book publishing is very dull this sea-
son. But few books are announced BY
Boston and New York publishers.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson resides in
Charlotte, N. c. She is quite young, be
tween twenty-five and thirty, of medium
height and pleasing.
Women sometimes get high, but Mrs.
Roster tops them all. She has climbed
to the summit of Popocatapctl, the great
est altitude ever attained by woman.
Rosa Bonhcur is tifty-two years old,
and unmarried. She rejoices with sub
dued JOY that no man has ever been able
to divide her pure and unselfish love for
cattle.
1t was the mother of Lord Duffcrin,
Governor General of Canada, who wrote
the plaintive Lament of the Irish Emf
grant" beginning with the line, "I'm
sitting on the stile, Mary"
MIR. Amidon has been made notary
public in Massachusetts. When he has
finished his arduous work for the day he
puts his name into the form of an inter-
rogation, answers himself in the affirma.
tive, and goes to supper.
DIR. Charles F. Matlack, a Quaker,
who is said to have been the first, and
for time the only, homeopathic physi.
clan in Pennsylvania, died at German
town recently, aged seventy-six years.
1t took Bret Harte an entire night to
write his latest story, "John Oakhurst,"
and he received only $500 for it. 1t is
such little things as this that discourage
young men from adopting literature as a
profession.
Hon. Louis Leebohm, the photog-
rapher of the expedition that left Day
ton, Ohio, to observe the transit of
Venus in South America, has died at
Bahia, Brazil, of yellow fever. His home
was at Dayton.
The Pittsburgh Advocate says: cat
the late commencement graduate of
Allegheny College, measuring six feet
six inches and three-quartcrs, guaranteed
to give the college $1,000 when it shall
graduate taller man than himself"
Bret Harte is said to be a sufferer
from chronic complaint that is by no
means uncommon. He cannot keep
money. He has no bad habits, and yet
money melts away as soon as he touches
it. His work commands a higher price
than that of any writer of the day.
Citizen Jones, of Rockingham
County, Va, was believed to be the old
est man in the world at the time of his
death, few weeks ago. He was called
Sam. He was of mixed Indian and
negro blood, and his memory of events
in the last century was fresh to the end
of his life. He was 1873 years old, &C
cording to the authenticated legends of
the bailiwick.
When Gen. Custer set cut on his
long march into the unexplored recesses
of the Black Hills he ordered his dinner
to be served for him on the 31st of Au-
gust, on his return. He actually got
back twenty-four hours before he agreed
to, thereby surprising the feat of Jules
Vernc's mythical hero, who engaged to
make the worlds circuit and return to
the London Reform Club before the close
of the cightieth day.
Industrial.
| The work of fan-making in japan
gives employment to many hundred
thousand people, whose wages amount
to about two or three cents day.
The number of people out of work
III IaIClOlu, Sonn., Is SO large tnaC the
| city is obliged to restrict itself to mar
ried men principally in giving employ
| ment.
The Nashua On. H. Gazette says
there is large surplus of laborcrs in that
city, and the application for work at the
different shops and mills is very frequent,
men offering to work for their board.
The tobacco growers of Connecticut
are fast recovering from the detection
caused by the inferiority of their product
last year and the dullness of the trade
for several months past. The prospects