San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-08-31
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in Berlin The Constitution speaks
highly of the effort.
Americas young contralto, Miss
Hattie Glenn, of Iowa City, Iowa, who
for four years has been pursuing her
musical studies in Europe, made q most
successful debut at Malta recently.
The whole of the unpublished manu-
scripts of the composer Rossini have
lust been sold at auction in London.
They were purchased from Madame
Rossini, who inherited them under the
composers will.
Peter Cooper was first coach.
maker, then a cabinet-maker,. then a
grocer, and failed in all three. 1t was
not till his fortieth year that he began
making glue, and then laid the founda-
ton OF his fortune, now estimated at
.SlO,000,000. ..It .l I.l, - b,
--Frederika Hallin, n Swedish girl,
has Just received a royal permit to pub
lish weekly paper in that country.
She not only writes her articles, but
sets them up and prints then" Women
only are employed in her office. This
makes the third printing establishment
in Sweden carried on exclusively by
women. E.. ... l.r t
When informed of Mr.. Bryant's ILL
ness Mr.. Longfellow said: "He was my
master in verse; ten years and more
my senior, and throughout my whole
life have had the warmest reverential
regard for him. His first thin little vol
ume of poems, of thirty pages or so,
containing his Thanatopsis ) and other
youthful performances, lies on my ia.
Bile to-day"
On a certain occasion Edward
Everett visited the composing-room of
the Boston advertiser at a late hour, to
read proof of an Grafton which he had
failed to see at an earlier hour. Ex-
tremely particular about his style, he
was altering sentences and making adj
ditions while the forms were waiting,
which so irritated the foreman that he
roared out: "Cut it short, Everett
confound it, cut it short. There's no
time now for patching up bad English"
Among Americans present at the re-
cent Literary Congress in Paris were
President Andrew D. White, Of Cornell;
Col. Thos. w. Higginson and Mr.. VIM.
Balch, of Boston. Russia was repre-
sented by M. Turgenief, and France had
Victor Hugo to preside over the sittings;
but otherwise the Congress was remark
able rather for the absence of literary
lights. The principal question dis
cussed was that of international copy
right and the rights of authors gener-
ally.
The Rev. Joseph Cook was about
16 years old when he delivered his first
lecture. From earliest boyhood he had
passion for delivering addresses. He
was born near Ticonderaga, his parents
being plain country people. His full
name is Flavius Josephus, and until he
grew up he was known as "Flave."
On becoming a man he dropped the
"Flavius," nobody knew exactly why.
When he was quite lad he wrote his
tory of Ticonderoga, which was pub
lshed in the village newspaper. His
discourses are now more extensively
published than those of any other
preacher in this country.
School and Church.
"A convention of the educators of
Southern States will be held in Chat
tanooga the 9th, 9TH and 9Th of August.
Three Chinese youths have gone to
Boston preparatory school with the
intention of eventually entering Harvard
College.
Three thousand teachers gathered
at the annual meeting of the American
Institute of Instruction, at the Fabyan
House, N. H., on the 9th of July. Sew
eral excellent papers were read and the