The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-10-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Perronal and Literarr.

j. w. Simolton, General Agent of
the Associated Press, will join the army
of lecturers this winter.
Wendell Phillips is getting so infirm
that he will only lecture this season in
places near Boston.
-Edison's yearly income from his
patents is about 100000. He has real
lied in all from them about s4OO,0
Mr.. Beecher's success during his
lecturing tour in California has been
very hattering. He has cleared $4,000
by ten lectures, and the man who hired
him almost as much.
Lafayette is described by an old
newspaper as having been a man of fine
personal appearance, despite his red
hair, which, contrary to the fashion of
his day, he never powdered.
William Ralph Emerson, a nephew
of the philosopher of Concord, will lee
ture this fall on decorative art, and
strive to answer the question, SIN a
hundred years, whatP"
Henri Rochefort's name can not be
used in France on a paper or on a
placard; so in the announcements of
the TielleSse de Brididt, now running in
Paris, the author figures as an. Henri. :"
Secretary uo, of the Chinese Le-
cation in England, is engaged in trans
lating Shakespeare into Chinese and has
made considerable progress in a trans
lation of "Blackstone's Commemorate"
into the same language.
"A pen picture of Dean Stanley,
made while he was preaching his Boston
sermon, represents him with slightly
built and STOPPING figure, neatly cut gray
hair and whiskefs of the old English
style, face expressively full of pleas
ant intelligence and dignity, and voice,
not powerful, but generally distinctly
heard. His discourse was read from his
manuscript in didactic but earnest way,
and without any gestures.
Benson j. LOSING, the historian,
who formerly lived in Poughkeepsie, n.
Y, has lived for some years past at q
country place called Chestnut Ridge,
the summit of a high mountain in
Dover, Duchess County. Here he does
his literary work and receives his friends,
though he often crosses the country to
] L guy uhSOpslC, NuOlO, 10 OllO VI OAO u uo-
tees, he is prominent manager of Vas
sar College.
John Mccullough says of the first
season in Philadelphia, in 1857: 81
was utility man, and my salary was Sc
per week, but at last was an actor and
was happy. On one occasion remark
ed to fellow-actor that l hoped one
day to command $15 a week. Thi:
seemed to me to be wild, vain aspira
ton, and was completely extinguished
when he replied: 'You Internal fool
you'll never again get as much as you
do now!' My cynical friend, may re-
mark, is right where he was twenty
years ago"
John Williamson, whose lately pub
ished book on the ferns of Kentucky ha:
met with such hospitable welcome, i:
young Scotch mechanic of Louisville
The illustrations, which are the dis
tinctive feature of his book, are all {.
his own drawing and etching, while the
fresh descriptive text shows much care
full and original investigation. mas
much as Mr.. Williamson's botanical
studies have been pursued and his bool
prepared in the intervals of mechanical
labor, it is interesting to know that h'
has not been a negligent workman, bu
that, on the contrary, he is first-rat,
metal-worker. Altogether there is mucl
to commend in the example of Mr.. JOIN
Williamson.-NeW York Tribune.