The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-11-30
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

MIR. B. P. Shillabcr (Mrs. Partington)
is again very i'll. He has rheumatism,
and erysipelas badly affects his head.
-O'Leary has walked 502 miles in less
than six days at the Liverpool (England)
rink, and now challenges the whole world
at leg lifting.
Queen Victoria has twinges of the
rheumatism now and then, and the good
old body begins to wonder if the world
will miss her very much.
Prince Metternich is a student of the
newspapers, and a wise one. He says he
notes what they do not say. Their silence
IS often more eloquent than their speech.
w. H. Brown, of Pittsburgh, who
lately died, is "the representative Amer
ican'' who in early life dug coal at one
and half cents a bushel-and departed
this existence the possessor of So, $50, 900.
When Richard Grant White discov-
ers man On the street with the word
"pedlar'' painted on his wagon, he i'm
mediately goes oRt and labOrs with that
party on the deep sinfulness of wrong
spelling.
-Adeline Patti is afraid to 60 to St.
Petersburg because her husband lives
there. So it is not the temperature of the
Russian weather that interferes with her
engagement, but the incom- Patti bility of
her husbands temperament.
Prof. Huxlcys only regret with re-
gard to America is that his stay there was
but seven weeks instead of seven months
Both he and Mrs. Huxley declare them
selves especially delighted by the glimpses
they got of American home and social life.
The trousseau of Miss May, who is
to marry James Gordon Bennett, has ar
rived from Europe, where it was collected
at an expense of $780, 900, according to the
gossips. 1t is said to be the most elabo-
rate and beautiful ever prepared for an
American lady.
MIR. Horace Capron, ex- Commissioner
of Agriculture, who went to Japan, there
to organize an agricultural department.
received for this service $40, 900 year in
gold. Now he is going to live in Wash
ington, and has built a beautiful house,
filled with rare and costly japanese fur
nishings.
A private letter from London says
that E. D. Winslow, the Massachusetts
forger, is still living near the Strand, and
occasionally visits Bowles' American Ex-
change. He has beard, and looks like
his former self, but he evidently feels his
lost position acutely, and says that his
mental suffering in prison was terrible.
The great commentator. DR.. LANCE,
has been fifty years professor. He was
the son Of peasant and in his boyhood
sold milk. Falling in love with a young
lady of high family he resolved to make
something of himself that he might win
her. He borrowed books and studied and
soon became known as brilliant scholar.
In later years he married the girl of his
early choice.
Protests have been addressed to Lord
Derby with reference to Mr.. Stanley s
butcheries of natives in Africa. His Lord.
ship has replied that he has read the re-
ports with regret, but hopes that Mr..
Stanley may pe able to offer some justifi.
cation of them. In any event, the British
Government cannot interfere, as Mr..
Stanley is not a British subject He has
not the right to employ the British flag as
he has done, and will be so informed as
The young lady who was engage ea'. :.
marry Stanley, the explorist, has taken
another man for better or worse. She is
evidently afraid that Ujijiji's habits are
not such as would warrant him to be the
kind of man who stays home evenings.
She has reason to fear that if she had
waited and married him, some evening
he would have just stepped down to the
postoffice to get cigar, and she wouldn It
hear of him again until the first mail from
the North Pole.-BWrlsngto Haaok-Eye.