Sharp County record., 1879-04-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Mr.. and Mrs. S. c. Hall recently
sent out cards for the fifty-tourth ami
versary Of their marriage.
Mr.. Tennyson is writing new play
for Mr.. Irving's theater--another his
torical one. Its title is Eleanor and
.Rosamond.
"A translation of Longfellow's "Song
of Hiawatha " has been published at
Moscow for the benefit of soldiers dis
;abled in the recent war.
"A visitor observed to Meissonier
that he seemed to have none of his own
pictures. "Too dear, my dear madam, "
said the great artist. "I can't afford
them.h
"A Columbia (Tenn.) special an
nounoes the death at that place of John
E. Hatcher, well known journalist
and one of the editorial staff of the
louisville COHTier-JOurn0L.
Miss Louisa Rymer is q young lady
still in her teens, who has carried off a
chess prize of the Birkbeck Literary
AND Scientific Institution, London, from
many masculine competitors.
Mr.. 7. w. HigginSon has taken
pos e8sion of his new home in Cam
bridge, Mass, thus adding another to
l. the interesting literary circle which has
' long been one of the features of that
b university town.
b The Christian Union says that Bun
y yan's Pilgrims Progress has been
n dramatized by DR.. Eggleston, and will
nshortly be presented in the parlors of
his church-the Church of Christian En-
d deavor.
D. Great minds Of professional critics
lido not always run in the same channels
R RCarlyle says: Wilhelm Meister' is
Zone Of the most perfect pieces of COM
IMPOSITION Goethe ever produced" Mr..
OELewes says "Candor compelS me to
mown that | find in it almost every fault
ia work can have"
5d Mrs. Lockwood, the first woman ad-
Omitted to practice in the Supreme Court,
ms so years old, tall, erect, gray-haired,
lcasnd the pOSseSsor of fine eyes. She
oanade her first appearance in the Court
palressed in a semi-mannish blue cloth
1faacque, with brass buttons and a plain
u aelveteen skirt.
sn. nn Mr.. w. S. Gilbert, author of Pima
a. ani pre-, is said, by writer in EUery Sat-
am onu u-rday, to be very versatile. He is not
cay My writer of charming imaginative
nsn lays, of comic operas and ballads ga
tea'Im,re, but a barrister, q former efficient
naSS fficer in q Highland militia regiment,
qA'l enthusiastic dancer and an excellent
po nateur actor.
,isc, "A newspaper letter says that Mr.. E.
+ nov. noy. Stedman, the poet, recently received
, letter from rich lady, asking him to
= IA rite for her commemorative poem on
8 sms g occasion of her silver wedding, and
,f ,ara forming him that if it suited she would
. .'r .nA it mind paying $40 for it. MIR. Sted-
- n an replied that he could not think of
MOr king advantage of her liberality, but
commended her to communicate with
,+ro1 tu 1nnyson or Browning, who made a
y, ror ecialty Of treating silver weddings in
,aic form, and were in the habit of COM
: Using such poems at the rate of $40 q
. zen.
.ohas-The New York Home Journal tells
n Ymthat Miss Hail, daughter of Oakley
IL, writes the art notes for the New
rk World, and trips gayly from studio
10 studio in search of her data; that
s Jones, daughter of George Jones,
ordpuhe New York Times, makes the lit
face Try selections for the supplement of
rim Sunday edition of that paper, and
! con5 Miss Dana, daughter of Charles A.
oich IA, OF the New York Sun, frequently
ao rs newspaper work. She is clever
. tl' utter, and has written for the maga-
=, ;S thois, having contributed stories to
{. * Whsper's Monthly.