Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-05-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.
Maud Miller, daughter of Joaquin
Miller, has made her first appearance in
a speaking part on the stage in Oregon.
She was a dancer at Baldwin's Theater,
San Francisco, last winter.
For his poem, "The Defense of
Lucknow" and its prelude, addressed
to the memory of the Princess Alice,
making altogether 127 lines, Mr.. Alfred
Tennyson, poet laureate, received f3O0.
Mr.. Robert Browning is not poet
only; he is theoretical musician of
great technical learning and a practical
musician and pianoforte player as well.
Not to stop with this he is adraughtsman
and colorist of no ordinary power.
One of Mr.. George Bancroft's thin
little volumes Of early poems was sold
for Sl5 at recent book sale in this
city. Somebody told Mr.. Bancroft
about it. "Ahi" he said; give
plenty of them put away, and would
have sold one for half the money"
Robert Browning, Berthold Auer-
bach and Mrs. Stowe are all &c years
old. Mr.. Emerson is 75, Victor Hugo
is rs, Tom Hughes is 55, Froude is 60,
Ruskin is SO, Tennyson is SO, Thomas
Hardy is only 38, VIM. Black is 81 and
Bret Harte is 80.
Concerning novelists, Lord Lans-
the greatest novelists in the world were
Cervantes, Fielding and LIE Sage. Ma
caulay, who was present when the re-
l. 4. 10
Quixote -" the first novel of the world,
He thought it we'll established that "Gil
Bias" is translation from the French.
Miss Virginia French, young lady
of New Orleans, wrote such pretty
poem for the Picayune some time ago
that young Tennesseean fell in love
with it and her. He went to New Or
le ans, pleaded with the Picayune queen
"a LADY, for the name of the poetess,
got it, bobbed down on his knees before
Miss French, and before long made her
his wife. Darlingtonia," a novel, is
from her pen.
The widow of George Keats, a
her first husbands death re married,
has just died at Lexington, Ky., at the
age of 80. To her was written some Of
the most charming and vivacious of the
poets letters, many of which have been
given in Lord Houghton's book, but the
majority were jealously guarded by her
from the public gaze, and were in her
possession at the time of her death. She
was the s.Dear Sis" of the poets letters,
and toward her he manifested the liveli-
est affection until his death. Her son,
John Keats, a bachelor, is believed to
be the only descendant of the poets
family bearing his name.
Science and Industry.
"A New Jersey firm has purchased
lots in Atchison, Kansas, and will erect
building in which to can tomatoes.
"A factory is being built at Pleasant
Mills, N. j., for the manufacture of pa.
per from Yucca, which is raised in South
Jersey.
The daily consumption of milk in
New York City and its suburbs ap
proaches 400,0 quarts, and at leasE
S25, 100000 are invested by farmers in
that industry alone.
"A factory in Hanover, Germany,
makes glass in close imitation OF mar
BILE, and the tables, floor tiles, etc.,
which it turns out are preferable to
marble on account OF superior hard
ness.
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wh;nh arows ~ TT to The ba;nh. of % feet
and which ia also used for the manufac.
ture of artificial flowers and certain TOYS
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