The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-10-29
Personal and Literary.

Personal and Literary.
DIR Z. Ii. Clarke, who raised such a
tempest by his Sex in Education" is
writing new volume on the education
of girls.
Gen. Sicklcs has filed formal
claim at the War Department for restora.
tion to the rank and pay of Major-Gen
eral on the retired list of the army
a son of F. f. Spinner, Treasurer
OF the United States, got broke" recently
at Texarkana, Ark, and went to work in
a hotel as waiter. A check from the
old man relieved him.
Among other things in her bridal
wardrobe Miss Sherman had 100 pairs OF
stockings. This seems a prodigal waste
of money. Most any bride ought to be
able to get along with 81 or SO pairs.
Chang Guam Wo. a Chinaman, liv-
application to the Patent Office for a
the first instance of an application for
apatcnt from subject of the Chinese
Empire.
Capt Tyson writes that he has made
twelve voyages to the Arctic regions, and
spent twcnty-thrce years Of his life con-
tending with the Polar ice, adding: Let
those who have the means furnish stout
steamer equipped and stored, and they
will find me ready to start for the North
Pole at short notice"
Miss Martha Hampstead recently
died in Waterford, Conn, aged nearly
nincty-onc. She was daughter of Mary
Bill, of GrOton, whom every schoolboy
knows as the Revolutionary heroine who
said to her husband on his way to war;
John, do not get shot in the back!'
| Among the antiquities belonging to Miss
Hampstead was the Oldest watch in New
London County, which members of the
Legislature used to borrow during the
sessions in time when watches were
much less common than now.
The recent death of Bishop Lee, OF
Iowa, has called forth some interesting
if not curious, parallelisms between his
life and that of the late Bishop White.
house, of Illinois. They were classmates
and fellow graduates in college; Lee fol.
lowed Whitehousc in the incumbency of
his New York parish; Lee was conse.
Grated Bishop of the adjoining diocese
Immediately after Whitehouse's election
to the Bishopric of Illinois; and hardly
had Lee conducted the funeral services
of his life long friend and brother than
he himself died, and, like that friend and
brother, suddenly.
"A writer in the St. Paul Press tells a
new story of Horace Greeley. Horace
wrote a note to a brother editor in New
York, whose writing was equally illegi
bic with his own. The recipient of the
note, not being able to read it, sent ii
back by the same messenger to Mr.
Greeley for calculation. Surprising it to
be the answer to his own note, Mr. Gree.
ley looked over it, but likewise was una.
bic to read it, and said to the boy: go
take it back. What does the COMPOUNDED
fool mcan?" "Yes, sir" said the boy
that is just what he says"
The woman suffrage meeting at
Providence, II. L., recently was an un
commonly interesting gathering, and the
| impress that the Smith sisters of Glas
tonbury, Ct, and the Fosters of Worces.
ter, Mass, have made upon the cause
has been particularly noticeable. In.
deed, the leading subject of the addresses
was taxation without representation.
Lucy Stone said: History will garner
up laurels for Abby Kelly Foster, who
put her gay life, with all its hopes, upon
the altar of Il great REFORM" and "thc
cart in which the Smith sisters stood to
plead with their townsmen should be put
in Independence Hall as an object of
veneration."