The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-07
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Gen. Sherman is going to publish a
revised edition of his "Memoirs."
Carlyle is opposed to suicides, hold
ing that all should live as long as breath
lasts.
Ex-senator E. G.. Ross has been pro.
noted to the assistant cditorship of the
Lawrence (Kan) Journal.
Who was guilty of that enormous lie
that Andrew johnson had $3.50, 600 life
insurance? He had not a penny.
Thomas Carlyle cannot write himself,
the nerves of his hand being entirely
shattered. This is his worst drawback
Edwin Booth says that when he un-
dertakcs to break colt again HELM
point of fact, he'll get somebody else to
do it.
-Hczekiah Lcard, of Augusta, Me-,
lately deceased, was the latest man in
the State. His coffin was 30 inches broad,
20 inches deep and n inches long
In the seven years that DR.. McCosh
has already been at the head of Princeton
College, the university has received ST.
25O, 900 in the shape Of donations.
Horace White, formerly editor of the
Chicago Tribune, has been comparing
America and England in an article pub
lished by the Fortnightly Reoiem, of lon
don
M. Emile dc Girardin denies the
right of the State or the individual to
punish crime. He says nobody has yet
been able to demonstrate whence it is de-
rived, and urges that crime be treated rs
a disease
1T is said to be absolutely impossible
to read Joaquin Miller's ordinary hand
writing. The intelligent composition
should, under the circumstances, have
credit for considerable skill in making
savage poetry.
The Paris physicians say that the
trouble with Mrs. Harriott CLARA Morris)
is the enlargement of the four upper Joints
of the spinal column-thc result of over.
work. They encourage her by saying that
they have no doubt that at the end Of six
months she will be able tO--stand the
burningagain.
MIR. John G. Whittier, it is said finds
the early morning hour the best time to
compose poetry. lie has also ahabt OF
composing aloud. The latter fact SO scri-
ously intcrfcrcd with the SAUNDERS of u
sailor who occupied room adjoining Mr..
Whitticr's ut Il hotel that he applied for
other quarters, "Out of the hearing of
Whittier"
-Postmaster-Gcn Jewell, while at
Litchtield, Conn.,, the other day, went out
on the lake for row, and got along very
wei until he tried to get ashore again. He
had one foot in the boat and got the other
on the land, when the boat rode away with
the one it had, leaving the General wildly
straddling" like the Colossus of Rhodes,
until the stretch between his feet became
too great, and he sat down to rcst-sat
down in the water. Damp as the proceed
ing was, the General took 1t very dryly
Gen. Sherman has written letter to
Col. John A. Suffer, apologizing for using
the word tight in referring to him in
his " Memoirs and saying that he has in
structed his publishers to substitute cen
thusastic" for it.. He adds: 81 did not
suppose my rapid sketch of carly events
in California would attract SO much no.
ticc. AS you well understand, | do not
offer my Memoirs as a history, but rather
as Il picture of the country at that date,
when you were all in all. Folsom and |
were youngsters then, us compared with
you and Mason, and we looked up to you
as veterans and models