The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-07-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Mr.. Murat iialstead. of the Cincinnati
Commercial. has sailed for Europe.
Edwin Booth will play no more for a
wear. oyerwork having made him an in
valid.
Charlotte Cushman returns 10 the
stage. and appears next season under the
management Of Messrs. Jarrett a Palmer
at Booths Theatre.
Mrs. l.. ID. Whitson. Of Murfreesboro'
has I'm press a novel entitled "Gilbert 1t.
Maurice. founded upon events which oc-
Cured i'm Middle Tennessee during the
late war.
George William Curtis and 4. w.
HigginsOn. 30 il il reported, are going TO
stump the State of Michigan in favor of the
woman suffrage clause of the new consti-
tuition.
George Francis Train SAYS that If the
press will let him severely alone he will
agree never 10 speak again lin public. TO
publish another book, or write another let
ter 10 a newspaper"
Miss Anna Dickinson. who has been
reported a. on the eve of going TO Europe.
is now announced TO spend the summer
al Marblehead. Grace Greenwood soon
goes 10 her Colorado cottage. and takes
her friend Mrs. Ames, the sculptures, with
her.
=" Commodore Rollingpin- (Mr. John
III. Carter. of the 1t. Louis Tines. the
well-known Western humorist. has made
a collection of his funny sketches. which
Carleton. the New York publisher, has
brought out in neat volume with Illus
trations.
MIR. William Cullen Bryant is to be
presented with a beautiful original artistic
Testimonial from the Century Club. of
which he i President, on completing his
eighticth year. i'm November next. Ii l. to
be- in the form OF an original vase of fine
workmanship i'm silver and gold. and 10
embody in The design the literary life OF
Mr.. BRYANT. and 10 express his relation TO
American literature and life.
Mrs. Mary Clemmer Ames makes the
following little confessions: "When
was seventeen | wrote rhyme called No
longer Young. I've lost il. but these
lines were in ii:
TO catch a shadow in the glass,
FAC. no longer young, alas
IL ntar in mirth Of girls aud boys
The refrain Of our former joys
81 have been paying the penalty Of
such precocity ever since. Let me tell
YOU. girls. 10 get into the newspapers be-
fore vou are sixteen Is not only ridicu-
lOus and silly. bat disastrous. When
am fairly old. a whole generation will
spring NJ and eXclaim. az the mention OF
my name: Why isn't that old woman
dead vet I'm sure heard of her as gray
haired when was young,' Now, il will
mOrtfv me dreadfully when people shall
assert that | have outlived my time-a
period never too long delayed in this
country"
One 81 poor :. Artemus Wards" pail
bearers IN England was Lawrence Barrett.
the actor. who relates the following incl
dent OF the genial American testers foreign
funeral :. JUST a. the cOncoursc was
streaming out at the cemetery gates an
old man. whose flowing white locks and
venerable appearance commanded general
attention. stepped upon a little grassy
knoll. and. with a movement Of the hand.
arrested the progress of the passing throng
and besought the people 10 listen To him
for a moment. lie said he was from lit
tie country town not far from London.
and that when he LEFT home on the previ-
Gus day his old wiie's last request was
that he purchase for her before his return
every one Of the books that Ariemus
Ward had written. and now that he had
reached the city he found the author dead
and his body consigned 10 the tomb.
And then followed "A tribute 10 the hum
orist'. mcmory-so simple, so unaffected.
and withal 80 touchingly eloquent that it
moved every heart and moistened the
eyes Of every person within the sound OF
his trembling voice. The tired and dusty
throng forgot their fatigue as they gath
cred around the venerable speaker. and in
his humble eulogy they found a sincerity
and pathoS that moved them infinitely
more than the cold and polished diction Of
the pulpit orator TO wnom they had Just
listened"