Dodge City times., 1877-06-23
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Hersohai anu hittraTys
"A new work of Charles Darwin,
about to appear, discusses 1.-The Differ
ent Forms Of Flowers on Plants of the
Same Species -
Jefferson Davis is now residing at
Beauvoir, on the Gulf coast of MisSissip-
pi, between Mobile and New Orleans,
and preparing his memoirs He is in
excellent health, ,and looks younger than
he did few years ago.
Mr.. Erastus Brooks, who has re-
tired from the New York Express, after
n service of Al years, is, with the excep-
ton of Mr.. Bryant, the Oldest journalist
in the city. He says in his farewell that
112 daily newspapers have started and
failed in New York City since he began.
The late w. ii. c. Hosmer's poetry,
like Alfred b. Streets, is identified with
the life, character and traditions of the
Indians. ''The Fall of Tecumseh,"
"Legends of the Senecas," and "The
Warriors of the Genesee, "were his chief
productions. He thoroughly studied the
Indian character years ago in Florida
and the Northwest.
Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton, well
known for her stories and poems and
literary correspondence, is now in Lon
don, where she is engaged as 4 regular
contributor to the Taller, a new weekly
somewhat in the 18th century style. She
also writes frequently for other papers
and magazines; and it is likely that she
will remain abroad a year or two longer.
Bob Burdette, the Hawk-eye man,
is to publish book and have it sold by
agents. Yet undoubtedly thst same
Burdette has been chased clear into the
fourth story of brick block and cor
nered in the coal bin, and there been
obliged to sign his name to book
agents subscription list; and when the
man came around with the five-dOllar
book, he had to go out and borrow fifty
cents of the foreman, ten cents of all
the cOmpositors, five cents of the devil,
and ask the editor to advance the re-
mainder of his next months salary.
Oh, that we could write book and send
the agent to our enemy.-Oh City Call. |
=" Christian Reid," the author of
4" Valerie Aylmer," and several other
books of increasing merit, is thus de-
scribed by correspondent of the Gin
einnati Commercial: "She is Miss |
Fisher, of North Carolina, and spends |
her winters in Baltimore, with her aunt |
and uncle, Judge and Mrs. Hairstone.
Miss Fisher is poor, and aids in every |
way her fathers family, which is large. |
Indeed, understand she is their MAIN |
stay. She is about %, of medium height, |
with slight, graceful figure, which she
dresses with exquisite taste. Her small,
shapely head is covered by profusion |
of wavy, ripping brown hair, done up
after carelessly artistic fashion. Her
features are regular, small and very |
pretty. Her eyes are large, lustrous,
and Of very uncertain color. She is
gentle, extremely graceful, and very shy;
can not bear the least reference to her
writings, on which subject she is pain
fully sensitive. Her voice is low-toned |
and musical. She talks well, and, when
warmed up to her subject, grows posi-
lively eloquent. She makes but little
from her books. There is quite de-
mand for them, but a friend told me the
Appletons bought out the copyright of
each for low figure, and that was the
end of it. She spends her summers at
home, and her winters with her uncle /
and aunt, who are devoted to her, and
very proud of her genius