The Red Cloud chief., 1880-05-27
PERSONAL AID LIBRARY.


RaoDA BxoUonuox has . swo-volum,
novel In press.
Marx TWAIN has given up the lecture
fcld on account ri his health
Mr. EDISON. 1t il reported. Is going
to California TO try . new process Of ex.
tracting gold.
CHARLES @. LELAND lHans Brett.
mani n leetdring in Philsdelphia on the
decorative arts.
G. w. CABLE, the author of 1.-THE
Grandissimes," in Scribner's is q cot
ton-broker at New Orleans.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE, Governor
Of New Mexico. il writing d novel; the
scene Of which is laid in Damascus.
SENAroR-BLEor MALONE. Of Virginia,
weighs only ninety pounds. beating
Hon. Alexander Stephens by . few
ounces
JUDaR JEEE. BLACK Is noted for his
Wonderful memory. He wears a sandy
colored wig. and has q fashion. in talk
ing. of twisting a silver tobacco box in
his hand.
PROF. JOHN FIsKE, the critic and lee
turer, is from Connecticut, q large, tall
man, with dark curling hair and a thick
red beard, with a pale face and gold
trimmed spectacles.
REV. DR. PEABODY, Of Harvard Uni.
versity, now At the full age Of three
score years and ten, was such a Samson
IN his youth that a farmer nee offered
hin extra wages il he would enter the
harvest-field.
GEORGE PUNCHARD. author of His
tory OF Congregationalism." in his
earlier years q minister, and for ten
years one OF the editors and publishers
of the Truretier, died recently in the
seventy-ourth year Of his age.
Miss ELLA SHERMAN, the pretty
young third daughter of the General. is
to be married early in May TO Lieuten-
ant Thackara, Of the navy. The wed.
ding Is to be celebrated at General
Sherman's house in Washington.
The scandinavians in Paris gave a
grand BANQUET in honor Of Nordensk-
joid, Arctic explorer. and his Lieuten-
ant, Pollander. Two hundred and
twenty persons were present. including
Prince Oscar and Christine Nilsson.
JOAQUIN MILLER's real name is Gin
cinnatus Heine Miller. His father was
a Westward hO-er," always moving
west, and he kept following Greeley's
famous advice until he got to Oregon
and could go no further unless he
swan.
DAVID DAVIS is a great reader, and
&c q (Grarrif v,dapa IN III. ao.l,, H..
used to carry his saddle bags full of
historical and biographical works. His
favorite novel is David Copperfield,"
though he has a fondness for Thackeray
and Walter Scott.
A BOOKSTORE salesman hears some
laughabic mistakes. One day a lady
comes in and asks for Dickens David
Copperhead," another for the "Schon-
berg Cotton Factory" third asks for
some history of the French Revolution
which will tell her about Robert Speer
guillotining the grid-irons." while a
fourth want "Madam Ramcat's Me
mOirs' of Napoleon.
Mr. JAMES PARTON. who has written
some of the best and most successful Of
American biographies. says hat an in
dustrious and capable writer can. dur
ing his best years, earn $1,000 or S.
700 a year. but that no man should
adopt literature as q profession unless
he has a fortune, or can live comfort
ably on $1,000 a year. Mr.. Parton's
first book was the "LiJeo of Horace Gree
ley." of which 1000 copies were sold.
Since then he has published a dozen
other works, all of which have been
very popular. Several of his shorter
biographical sketches first appeared in
Harper's Magazine, commencing about
wears ago.