The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-04-16
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mr.. j. NJ. BAILEY (the Danbury Neso'
many has written play for Sol. Smith
Russell.
The King of Sweden has turned au-
thor, and has just published poetic
rendering of the legend of Lohengrin.
GOVERNOR CoLoU1rr, of Georgia, is
described as q working Christina
man who carries his. religion into his
daily life. 1t is said that probably no
man in Georgia gives as much toward
the support of church and charity as
does Mr.. Colquitt.
Mrs. JULIA SMITH PARKER, of Glas-
tonbury, Conn, who was married for
the first time at eighty-seven years OF
age, signs her letters with her maiden
name, Julia E. Smith. She says she
bore that name too long to recognize
another as her own.
Mr.. r. H. DANA III. the young gen.
tleman recently married to Mr.. Long
fellows daughter, was the most noted
athlete in his class at Harvard. Since
leaving college he has broken down
physically, and has just made q journey
round Cape Horn for the recovery Of
his health.
Mr.. SIDNEY LANIER, musician as well
as literateur. has paper in Sc,1bner
for April, which is entitled ''The Or.
chestra of To-day" and is clear and
untechnical account of the construction
and differences of the orchestral instru-
ments. Incidentally, Mr.. Lanier adj
vocates the training of women for Or
chestral work.
Mr.. YATES says that there seems to
be no end to the literature of quarrels
among authors. The last, which Gre
ates much amusement in literary cir
Giles, is between q novelist and journ-
alists. The story goes that the novelist
has drawn the Journalists portrait, and
has made him the villain of q novel
now passing through a monthly maya
zine.
Miss BERTHA Won HILLERN, the pc
destrian. is said to have been adopted
as daughter by a wealthy couple in
Boston, who take her into the best So
ciety and are permitting her to study
art. The money which she earned by
her pedestrianism--several thousand
dollars-is in the bank where it was de-
posted three years ago. Her adopted
mother took her home Immediately up
on the completion of her walk in
Boston. -" so
SEvENrY-Two of the paintings in the
j. A. Harper collection, realized $49,.
$40. Zamacois' "The Disputed Came"
starting at $1,000. brought 1921
Schreyer's "The Advance Guard,
brought 81 300; and Meissonnier's ''Vi-
dette," $500. Willett's "Return to
the Farm was sold for $4,000. "A
water-color of Fortuny's sold for 1926.
The total amount realized from the sale
was $1O8, $50; and the last picture sold
brought the highest price Of all-Van
Marcke's Landscape and Cattle"-
for So, 725. Perrault's Education OF
Azar" brought 50, $50.
Miss NELSON, the actress, is a rich
woman. Her fortune, it is said, will
be $250,OOO at the end of her present
tour, without reckoning the market
value of her diamonds, which repre-.
sent, at jewelers. prices, 100000. Il
she choose to keep on acting, year in
and year out, she could have $3.50, 0Oc
more, SO the same writer asserts, in about
three years. The one hundred and ter
performances given during the present
tour have brought her in upward o.
S45, 900, and she must give forty more,
besides twenty eight California repre-
sensations, by which she will max