The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-07-08
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Louisa Alcott has earned $685. 600 from
the sale of her books.
Father Bochm, of New Jersey, COM
late Tooth birthday reception in jersey
City.
Mr. Ross, the father of Charley, has ut
last given up all hopes of ever finding his
son. Some one ought to pull hemp for
this crime, but 40 one ever will.
"A ego prize is offered by an cntcrpris-
ing Englishman for the best essay on the
following subject: us the Present English
Tongue "a Teutonic or a Romantic Onc:'
Tennessee goes into the Centennial
with the best of nomenclature. George
Washington and William Rule have been
appointed Commissioners by the Governor.
Francis S. Street. of the New York
Weekly, is the youngest millionaire in
Brooklyn. He has made his money by
spending it-that is, by liberal ailvertis-
ing.
The Herald gives it as a rumor that a
volume consisting of the most important
philosophical correspondence of The late
Mr.. John Stuart Mill will shortly be pub
lishcd.
The Philadelphia Bulletin says of the
alleged decadcncc of a certain writer that
che was lost to us because he expended
too much vital force in efforts to tell the
TRUTH
Matthew Henry, and not King Solo
mon, was the author Of the proverbs:
"Clcanlincss is next to gOdlincss.' Henry
knew, for he was thcologian and a gen
tlcman, and tried both.
In the address which he delivered on
his return home, touching his recent visit
to the United States, King Kalakaua made
no mention whatever of Chicago. The
Couracr-Journa thought when he went
there he would live to he ashamed of it.
. Prof Peters thinks he has done a great
thing in discovering two new stars. Little
stars, too. Why, people out this way see Il
new moon every month, and say nothing
more about it than: Hullo, there's new
MOON" Stars, indeed! You let the stars
alone, MI. Peters, and the stars will let
you alone. ~..
DR.. Nancie Morrcllc, who lately
reached India from New York, has settled
in Haidarabad, where she has already OBJ
tanned an extensive practice. She opened
a dispcnsary in one of the bazars, and it is
now SO crowded that she is about to re-
move it into much larger house. Among
her patients are many native ladies who
come from great distances to avail them
selves of her skift=N. Y. Herald.
The recovery of Carruth, the Vineland
editor, is attended with some eXtraordina-
xy4Nptieal results He cannot clearly see
the left side of objects and has moreover
gained 4 sort 0f telescope faculty enabling
him to,sec objects altogether out of sight
to ordinary persons. He frequently makes
mistakes as to the distance of objects,
thinking them to be quite near when they
are good way off. The left-sided obscur-
ity of vision marks both eyes and is fact
of scientific value as confirming the theory
of Psychologists that the right optic nerve
affects the left side of the eyes and the left
nerve the right sides.
Joaquin Miller has provoked many
sharp criticisms ON his poetry, but none on
his public conduct under the most trying
of domestic Affections. He has persistent
ly refused to say anything, in self-dcfense
or otherwise, concerning the attacks made
upon him by his former wife and by many
Western newspapers Almost the only
public allusion he has ever made to these
attacks is in the preface of his new book,
where he says: +" have been true to my
West. She has been my only love. have
remembered her great men, / have done
my work to show to the world her vast
ness, her riches, her resources, her yalor
and her dignity, her poetry and her grand
eur. Yet while was going on, working
SO in silence, what We're the things she
said Of ME? But let that pass, myAdear
parents" Others will come after u.s.. Per
haps have blazed out the trail for great
minds in this field as you did across the
deserts and plains for great men quarter
Of century ago." !