The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-02-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

-Modjeska's full name is Modrze-
jewska, and her age is 80.
DIR. Edward Beecher has book on
future punishment in press.
George Eliot, William Black, and
Thomas Hardy are engaged on new
novels.
Mark Twain has love-story IN the
March Atlantic, in which the lovers do
their counting and get married by tele-
phone.
-Abram S. Hewitt has written for the
next number of the International Re
ateSC an article on "The Method of
Electing the President.
William and Mary Hewitt are liv-
ING at Merau, in the Tyrol, where they
are still occupied with literary work.
William is 80.
Isaac Van Nostrand, an American
of literary tastes, with most substan-
tial bank account, is living the life of a
barbarian prince on his MANILA planta-
ton, in the Philippine Islands.
English authors produced and had
printed last year 9,049 books. There
we're also 2,Oi6 new editions, making
the total book production of England
5,095, against 4 1888 the preceding year.
Prof. Max Muller is engineering the
tremendous work of translating all the
chief Bibles of the East into the Ian
guages of Europe, on which scholars
are now engaged in the greatest centers
of learning.
The man who graduated first in
Charles Summers class at Harvard is
now minister in an obscure village IN
New jersey. The next best scholar is
a Section Superintendent ON the Penn
sylvania Railroad.
From various women correspond
ents in Washington we get the follow
ing information: Justice Harlan's wife
is very tall, stately and handsome. See
rotary McCrary's wife is little and girl
ish, with a particularly happy express
/ sion of face Secretary Sherman's wife
is tall, smiling, and has very heavy
brown hair. Senator Matthews's wife
is while-haired and CHEEKY. Senator
Hamlin's wife is gifted with rare intel
/ ligence. Senator Angus Cameron's
wife is tall, slender, and pretty. Sena
tor DOrsey's wife is a beautiful and ami.
able brunette The wife Of the Japan.
csc Minister is gentle and ladyilke.
Mrs. Sophie B. Herrick, whose
microscopical studies, published II
Scrtbner'S Month y during the past year
/ have attracted wide attention, has be
come permanently connected with the
editorial department of that magazine
Mrs HuricK is daughter of the late
Rev. DR.. Bledsoe, of Baltimore, who fol-
many years was editor of the Southern
Rerie10, a Methodist quarterly published
in that city. She was for a considerable
period his assistant, doing much of the
work, and she is now widely recognized
as standing in the first rank of American
scientific women.
Joaquin Miller has a bone to picl
with the New York correspondent of thu
San Francisco Chrcnicle, who represent
him rs " a poet who often acts with thu
deliberate intent to render himself con
spicuOus,n and thus continues: Their
is not "a more persistent self advertise
in the metropolis, and there are man,
of his kind. He is continually affecting
oddity, and doing silly things to attrac
attention. He is perpetually posing anC
pretending, and has SO disguised man,
people whose good opinion is wortl
! having, that they avoid him sedulously.'
Miller's claim Of a lack OF education is
according to this authority, all a care
fully sustained sham. His earnings ar
set down at $4,000 year.