The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-05-14
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

RoxERr FORTUNE, an English author
and botanist, employed in 1857 by the
United States to collect in China seeds
of tea shrubs ard other plants, Is dead;
aged sixty-seven years.
THE mother of Mr.. J. 6. Saxe' the
poet, died recently IN Vermont. A-
though in her ninety-first year, she was
/ a comparatively vigorous woman, her
hair not having even turned gray.
NJ. LOUIS FAvRE, the engineer-in-
chief who built the st. GOthard tunnel,
fell dead in the tunnel on the eve OF the
completion of the boring. His bust
in marble is to be placed over the en-
trance. "a as4f.s tiI9f+
The Introduction to the Study OF
Sign-Language Among the North Amer
lean Indians" by Colonel Garrick NAL
lery, u. S. A., has just been issued from
the Government Printing Office at wash
ington.
BUCKLE acquired nineteen languages,
among them Maori and Walloon, and
wrote and spoke seven with huency,
but, like so many persons who accom-
plish such intellectual feats, he only
passed Disraeli's 81 fatal 81 by very
few years.
MIR. AUSTIN DOBsoN, the English
writer Of GERS de SOcietie, was born In
1910. began to write poetry when he
was twenty-five years old, aud the first
collection of his ''Vignettes'' was made
in 1874. He has been a Government
clerk twenty-five years.
PRINCESS ELIZABETH of Roumania Isl
1.,Av ho - ho o,,fh ~
eral works, and has also translated sew
eral Roumanian poems into English and
German. She has just received the
medal of merit from the ministers for
these literary achievements.
PRINCE BISMARCK is more than six
feet three inches high, and is by no
means thin. He wears a Uniform, and
the lapels of his coat, of a bright yell
low, Overspread his immense chest. He
writes at his desk nearly all night long,
and then he sleeps until about noon.
lola, the popular French novelist,
works always in the morning; he can
not write after having tasted food.
Personally, he is the ordinary type of q
well-tO-do tradesman. and only two
things strike one while in his society
his lisp, and the extreme smallness,
wilderness and delicacy of his hands.
PRoF. NeRDENsKJOLD, the successful
Arctic explorer, has pro6ted by his
journey to Japan to buy a collection of
valuable Japanese books. These works
number 1,O36, but as every volume does
not contain more than 100 pages, &C.
cording to the Japanese style, each
work comprises many volumes, and the
whole collection embraces over 100, 900
separate volumes.
Mrs. FRANCES HODGsON BURNETT,
the novelist, has gone to Niagara Falls,
to have her foot on Canadian soil when
her new novel, Louisiana" is pub
ished in London, so as to get the ben
eft of the British copyrights law. She
will stay only SO long as this object re-
quirss. and, on her return, she proposes
to take her first glimpse at New En-
gland, staying for a few days with
friends in Springfield.
MISS CHARLOTTE MARY YONGE, the
author, is now fifty-seven years old.
She is a woman devoted to religious
work. The profits Of her book, the
b" Daisy Chain, amounting to $4,000,
she used in building q missionary col
lege at Auckland, New Zealand; while
large portion of those 'erived from
''Ihe Heir of Redclyffe'' went to the
equipment of the late Bishop Selwyn's
missionary schooner, "The Southern
Cross"