The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-03-11
Personal and Literary.
-Brigham's proposal-B. Young.

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-Kilboy is the rather ambiguous name
of a Philadelphia physician.
The New Orleans Bulletin says Brig.
ham Young has sufficiently recovered to
sit up and get married occasionally.
-Kalakaua is doubtless home ere this
and getting mixed up under the cross
questioning Of Mrs. Kalakaua.
-Trask, the anti-tobacco man, lately
deceased, leaves two sons and they both
chew the weed the worst way.
The St. Louis Times says that the
state of Gen. Frank Blair's health is such
that there is hardly possibility Of his
surviving many weeks.
Mr.. Eaton, the new Senator from
Connecticut, is apparently about sixty
years of age. He is small in stature, has
we'll shaped head, is almost bald, his
hair being thin and gray in color, and
wears no beard of any kind.
There are four clubs in Boston pat
ronized by ladies, viz. The New England
Woman's Club, the Saturday Morning
Club, the Brains Club and the Young
Ladies' Club-the members of which are
in general high-toned persons interested
in intellectual and philanthropic mat
tiers.
DR.. Thomas w. Evans, an American
dentist in Paris, has been called to at
tend the Empress of Russia. What a
fine sight it must be to see a Yankee
the Emperor of 10000, 900 of people.
Mrs. Lucy Hooper, the Paris CORE
spondent of the Philadelphia Press, is the
wife uf Robert NJ. Hooper, the U. s. Vice.
Consul in that city. Her editorials for
the Paris american Register are copied by
the Figaro, one of the wittiest journals
in France.
Prof. Fowler, the phrenologist, ex-
amined the head of the Detroit Free
Press humorist, and, not knowing who
his subject was, said "Young man,
cannot commend to you any intellectual
pursuit in life. You may guide pillow
with some degree of intelligence; may
even hoe potatoes without danger; but
attempt nothing more exhausting to the
cerebral tissues. You have not the
brain, sir, for an intellectual life behind
the counter" And Fowler has learned
more about his own faults from the De-
troit Free Press than he ever knew.-Cin.
cannatt Commercial.
An English paper says: "Mr. STAN
ley's first letter from Africa shows that
he has, at the outset of the journey, &C.
complished a great work, the moral and
material importance of which can hardly
be exaggerated. In thirty days he ex.
plored the Rufigi River, which Mr.. Kirk
reported to be navigable. Mr. Stanley,
as the result of his spirited voyage in the
Yarmouth yawl, the Wave, informs us
that the river carries a good navigable
channel fifty miles inland, and he be-
lieves that for nearly half that distance
the largest Mississippi steamboat of
5000 tons might safely float. Mr.. STAN
ley by his initial bit of work puts the
British Consul at Zanzibar to shame and
justifies the belief that he is not un-
worthy to continue the work which was
begun by Livingstone"
Gen. John Eaton, United States Com
missioner of Education, OF Washington ;
John P. Wickersham, State Superintend-
ent of Public Schools in Pennsylvania;
John D. Philbrick, of Boston, ex-Superin-
tendent Of Public Schools; Alonzo Aber.
nethy, State Superintendent of Public
State Superintendent of Public Schools
in Virginia, compose the committee ao-
pointed by the Department of Superin.
tendence of the National Educational
Association to act for that body with the
authorities of the Centennial in perfect
ing a plan for the proper representation
of the educational interests of the coun.
try at the approaching National EXPOSE
ton at Philadelphia. One of the prOmi-
nent features proposed is general meet
inc Of the a1umni Of colleges