Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-04-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.


Mr.. and Mrs. S. G. Hall recently
sent out cards for the fifty-fourth ami
versary of their marriage.
Mr.. Tennyson is writing a new play
for Mr.. Irving's theater-another his
torical one. It's title is Eleanor and
Rosamond.
"A translation of fLongfellow'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. 81 can't afford
them"
"A Columbia (Tenn.) special an
nounces the death at that place of John
E. Hatcher, a well known journalist
and one of the editorial staff of the
Louisville Cotrier-Journal.
Miss Louisa Rymer is a young lady
still in her teens, who has carried off q
chess prize of the Birkbeck Literary
and Scientific Institution, London, from
many masculine competitors. ...
MIR. I. w. Higginson has taken
pos ession of his new home in Cam
bridge, Mass, thus adding another to
the Interesting literary circle which has
long been one of the features of that
university town.
The Christian Union says that Bun
yan's Pilgrims Progress has been
dramatized by DR.. Eggleston, and will
shortly be presented in the parlors of
his church-the Church of Christian En-
deavor.
Great minds of professional critics
do not always run in the same channels.
Carlyle says: Wilhelm Meister' is
one of the most perfect pieces of COM
position Goethe ever produced. Mr..
Lewes says: "Candor compels me to
own that find in it almost every fault
q 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 Court
dressed in semi-mannish blue cloth
sacque, with brass buttons and a'plain
velveteen skirt.
Mr.. w. S. Gilbert, author of Pima
fore, is said, by writer in EUery Sat-
urddy, to be very versatile. He is not
only writer of charming imaginative
plays, of comic operas and ballads ga
lore, but barrister, former efficient
officer in Highland militia regiment,
an enthusiastic dancer and an excellent
amateur actor.
"A newspaper letter says that Mr.. E.
G. Stedman, the poet, recently received
a letter from rich lady, asking him to
write for her commemorative poem on
the occasion of her silver wedding, and
informing him that if it suited she would
not mind paying $40 for it. MIR. Sted-
man replied that he could not think of
taking advantage of her liberality, but
recommended her to communicate with
Tennyson or Browning, who made a
specially of treating silver weddings in
epic form, and were in the habit of COM
posing such poems at the rate of $40 a
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; that
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, and
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 maga-
zines, having contributed stories to
Harper's Monthly.