The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-09-03
Personal and Literary.

Personal and Literary.
A Missouri Sheriff offers for sale a
the craps of Corn belonging to J Brooks
DeCcast."
The oldest living cX-CongreSSman is
Samuel Thatcher. of Bangor, Me, who is
in his ninety ninth year. He represented
a Massachusetts, district from 1902 to
1905
John Horn, of Detroit, is to he the
recipient of Congressional medal in
recognition of his services in saving pco.
pie from drowning. He rescued 100 per
sons from impending danger by flood
often at the risk of his own life. and
sometimes at the expense of long and
painful illness.
The poet of the Mississippi Press
Association was interrupted while writ
ing his annual verses, and he thus men
tions the incident:
| lis the exchange icnd tina, darkcn> our door.
| And our poem. unfinished. lies dropped on the
floor:
| We writhc in our agony wrathful but mute.
| And all of our sentiment fees To our boot.
As we wish some benevolent friend would award
| A. a prize for this poem. patent Bo-ardn-.
President Jcwett, who has uSt as
, sumed the responsible management of
the Erie Railway, is il man of or IT prac-
teal experience in such matters. The
office sought him. not he the office. He
was given carte bMhche as to all matters
of subordinates and detail. and his salary
was fixed at the respectable figure of
$4,000 per ;,nnum, the highest wage paid
to any railway official in the world, un
less it be the magnatc of the New York
Central, and what he gets is " something
no fellow can find out
1t is somewhat amusing, says an cN-
change, to frequent the libraries and
witness the fashionable young ladies as
they draw their mental rations. They
haunt the "ncw book" shelves, and
would under no consideration read Il
volume that has acquired the age of SIX
months. Like the clothes they wear the
book must not be out of style Their
summer reading must be light and airy
something with which they can wrc>tle
and not start too much perspiration. 1t
must be literary organdic or French
muslin, cut and trimmed with the fresh
est pattern of heightened cdging.
Dryden received $4,000 for his trans
lation of Virgil; Pope received $40 fol
his poem, The Rape of the Lock, 2G,OOU
for the 1liad and $l4.425 for the Odyssey
-translations which occupied him the
greater part of twelve years; GOldsmith's
Traveller brought him $l05, the Deserted
Village $500, and She Stops to Conquer
$1,000; Marmion paid to Scott $3.50, and
the Lady of the Lake gave the generous
return of $4,000: Childe Harold gained
for its author $2l,3115, Don Juan $l5, $50,
and the Prisoner of Chillon So ,G25;
Thomas Campbell received 800 for the
Pleasures of Hope; DIR. johnson received
S625 for Rasselas, and about $50 for the
Vanity of Human Wishes.
This story is told of Rev. Mr.. Her
rick, once settled at Worthington, Mass
He collected his own salary, Cor which
| every voter in the town ws. assessed
and, calling on Mr.. d., the blacksmith
one day, he said: IL have small bill
against you And for WHAT" "Fo
preaching" For preachinyy" said Mr.
ID. 81 have heard none of your preach.
ing ''The fault is your own,' said
MIR. II. "The doors have been open and
you might have come in" Not long
after, as Mr.. II. was one day passing the
blacksmith shop, Mr.. d., hailing him,
said: Il have small bill against you"
And for what:" said Mr.. III. For
shoeing your horse" replied Mr.. ID.
For shooting my horse: have had no
horse shod here" said Mr.. II. 1.-THE
fault is your own" replied Mr. ID. "The
doors have been open and you might
have come i'm Mr.. II. paid the bill and
passed on.
MIR. Halstead, of the Cincinnati Com
| merciai, went while in London to see Mr..
Disraeli unveil the bronze statue of the
late Lord Derby His sketch of Disraeli
exactly as he appeared on the occasion
conveys good idea of the present per
sonal appearance of the man: THE
Prime Minister wore an expression of the
most funeral gravity He looked aged
and ill. His closely-slavcn face was
very pale, with sickly saffron tingc; his
eyes were dull and sunken, and seemed
| to look within. The lines in his face are
deep and strange, and those of an over
worked and sorrowful man. lie wore Il
spotless black frock-coat, buttoned about
his slender waist and over his chest, and
light pantaloons, loose and long. On
taking his seat on the platform he did not
remove his hat. When he stood up to
speak he removed his hat, disclosing the
celebrated front curl (Which is quite at.
| tenuateO, anu seems 10 require constant
care and cultivation), but kept upon his
hands his lavender kids. He spoke less
than ten minutes, gravely, heavily
slowly, without vivacity of tone, and but
once varied from his accustomed attitude
leaning forward slightly, with his hands
upon the rail of the front of the platform
The single variation was when he unex.
pectedly closed his address, when he
deliberately raised his left arm, and
pointed with outstrctched finger to the
statue, which had, he said, been raised as
an example, The Prime Minister had
evidently carefully considered his re
marks. Some of the sentences appear
to have been deliberately measured. A.
he spoke the words seemed to force
themselves from his lips, which were no
once fully opened, but contracted ant
bulged in curious way