Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-04-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

MI cLiu1 sui 10 WlitiuS q AOW pAol
for Mr.. Irving's thealer-another his
torical one. Its title is Eleanor an(
Rosamond.
A translation of Longfellow's "Sons
of Hiawatha " has been published a
Moscow for the benefit of soldiers dis
abled in the recent war.
"A visitor observed to Meissoniel
that he seemed to have none of his owl
pictures. "Too dear, my dear madam,
said the great artist. 81 can't affort
them"
"A Columbia (Tenn.) special an
nounces the death at that place of JOIN
E. Hatcher, q well known journals
and one of the editorial staff of tn,
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Miss Louisa Rymer is a young LADY
still in her teens, who has carried off I
chess prize of the Birkbeck Literary
and Scientific Institution, London, from
many masculine competitors.
MFR. I. W. Higginson has taker
pos ession of his new home in Cam
bridge, Mass, thus adding another t.
the Interesting literary circle which ha!
long been one of the features of thai
university town.
The Christian Union says that Bun
yan's Pilgrims Progress has beer
dramat;zed by DR.. Eggleston, and vii
shortly be presented in the parlors O.
his church-the Church of Christian En-
deavor.
Great minds of professional critic.
do not always run in the same channels
Carlyle says: Wilhelm Meister' i:
one OF the most perfect pieces of com
position Goethe ever produced" Mr.
Lewes says: "Candor compels me u
own that l find in it almost every faul
work can have"
Mrs. Lockwood, the first woman ad
mitted TO practice in the Supreme Court
is so years old, tall, erect, gray-haired
and the possessor of fine eyes. She
made her first appearance in the Cour
dressed in q semi-mannish blue clotf
sacque, with brass buttons and plaiI
yelveteen skirt.
MIR. w. S. Gilbert, author of Pima
fore, is said, by writer in Every Sat
urddy, to be very versatile. He is MOI
only a writer of charming imaginative
plays, of comic operas and ballads ga
lore, but barrister, a former efficient
officer in Highland militia regiment
an enthusiastic dancer and an excellent
amateur actor.
"A newspaper letter says that Mr.. E
C. Stedman, the poet, recently received
letter from rich lady, asking him tC
write for her commemorative poem or
the occasion of her silver wedding, anC
informing him that if it suited she woult
not mind paying 80 for it. MIR. Sted
man replied that he could not think o.
taking advantage of her liberality, but
recommended her to- communicate with
Tennyson or Browning, who made 8
specially of treating silver weddings in
epic form, and were in the habit of com
posing such poems at the rate of $40 q
dozen.
The New York Home Journal tells
US that Miss Hall, daughter of Oakley
Hall, writes the art notes for the New
York World, and trips gayly from studio
to studio in search of her data; thai
Miss Jones, daughter of George Jones
of the New York Times, makes the Lit
erary selections for the supplement Of
the Sunday edition of that paper, anG
that Miss Dana, daughter of Charles A
Dana, of the New York Sun, frequently
does newspaper work. She is a Clever
writer, and has written for the maya
zines, having contributed stories t.
Rarper's Monthly. $500
Science and Industry
Portland cement is made from lime.