The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-02-19
Personal and Literary.

Personal and Literary.
His full name is Morrison Remich
Waite.
Henry Ward Beecher is believer in
homeopathy in medicine.
ION, Stanley, on!" were undoubtedly
the last words Of Livingstone
Laura Fair has recently struck it
rich" in Ophir stock, to the gain of
$4,000.
-Professors William C. Richards, of
Pittsf1eld, Mass, has received an invita-
ton to accept the Presidency of the COL
lege at San Barbara, Cal.
Richard H. Dana, ST., the old poet.
the friend of Bryant and Irving, is spend
ing his old age in reading and listening
to music. He is fast approaching ninety,
and looks twenty years this side of it.
Bret Harte, it is said, can command
a higher price for his work than any lit
erary man In the metropolis. IScrSbner's
Monthly has paid him as much as 500
page, and, like a sensible man, he would
take more if he could get it.
Many persons think Josh Billings
unmindful of the domestic proprieties in
his continuous revilings of the succulent
and toothsome hash while Mrs. Billings
is the proprietress of prosperous board
ing-house. The opinion is not wanting
in soundness.-Gruphic.
Congressman Fernando Wood is
worth about ten millions of dollars. He
is the owner of some Of the most valuable
property on the island, the choicest
parcels of which are located on the Grand
Boulevard and in the immediate neigh
hnrhnod nf Rivarcilo Dory
The father of Brigham Young was a
Methodist, but an eccentric man. He
wanted his children to be Christians /:
and, as means of making them such, he
promised to give sheep to the one who
would kneel and make the best prayer.
They all knelt, and Brigham obtained
the prize.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Herald says of J.
Edgar Thompson: Thirty years ago he
was here comparatively poor man, and
this great city was crossroads. He re-
turns to-day wealthy, nay, into the mill.
ions, and President of the most powerful
corporation in the United States, to find
that his own growth, marvellous as it is,
is surpassed by the growth of the little
village he Left
Poor Artemus Ward, with all his clev.
erness, was very modest fellow. He
used to say privately, "Nobody knows
any better than myself how little I amount
to. But If people insist on being such
fools as to pay me handsomely for play
ing the fool, I'm not such fool as not to
take the fools money. A fool and his
money, according to the proverb, are soon
parted, and, according to the fact, I am
the parter."
Asa Packer, of Mauch Chunk, is one
OF the wealthiest men in PENNSYLVANIA, or
indeed in the Republic. He is worth al
least $4,000, 600, and began life without
penny as the driver of a canal.boat on
the Lehigh Canal. His immense fortune
came mainly from the purchase at low
rates OF coal lands in the region of his
present place of residence-the lands ad:
vancing enormously within short time
after he bought them.
"A writer in the Boston T5uueller saws
Il have been surprised 10 see, in the o6it-
uary notices of the great Agassiz, no men.
ton of his election to an office in the
Garden of Plants, in Paris, esteemed, at
least in France, the highest and most de.
sirable place in the world for man en-.
gagged in his pursuits; his letter declining
the honor, and assigning his reasons; the
autograph letter of the Emperor urging
him to reconsider his decision and accept
the office; his reply adhering to the de-
cision, and his immediate taking of the
first step toward naturalization"
I'm Arabic and Turkish books gener.
ally the consonants only are printed; and
readers must supply the vowels. As diff
ferent words frequently have the same
consonants (e. O., hat, hate, hot; dog, dig),
the exact word is to be inferred from the
| connection. tits amusing to see Turkish
readers puzzling over some doubtful
word. Perhaps our young friends would
like to try their hand at q little English
in this style Of printing, nd tn bright yna
chldrn t Inn, TIT b shd tch thin; nd hi
dscpls rbkd this tht bright thin. BIT WIN
Jss sw t, h VS. INCH dsplsd, nd sd mt thin
Sffr tn It'll chldrn en- mt m, nd frbd TIM
mt; fr sch tn kngdm f Gd.-Harpoo
Ne,cs.
1t was during the war that DOM
Piatt, the chief Of General Schenck'
staff, with the rank of colonel, sauntere(
into the Philadelphia depot, where sat al
imperious lady disguised at the non.ap
pearance of the porter. "Here, sir, tax,
my trunk up stairs and get it checked,
exclaimed she, as Dom appeared. As b,
hesitated, she ejaculated. mo words
sir; take it up" Deliberately STOPPING
for Dom Piatt wouldn't hurry for Al
archangel-he slowly put the trunk OF
his broad shoulders and carried It III
stairs, checked it and, returning to thu
lady, extended his hand with the words
Zone dollar, ma'am." In vain Oh,
stormed. II never did it for less, ma'am
Alters charge q dollar here" As sh.
flung him the greenback DOM bowet
with the grace of . Grand Seigneur, and
sauntering out of the door, gave the bill
to the first little gamin he encountered
Correspondence Springfield Republican.
RELIGIOUS and Educational.
The Cleveland Herald argues in favol
of placing women on School Boards.
Bishop Hennesay, of Kansas, has pro
hibited dancing in that diocese at Catho
lie fairs and festivals.
7 Maryland spends go, 900 q year OF
colleges and academies from which
women are excluded, and only 5000 fol
the exclusive education of young women
The Springfield (Mass.) School Com
A.