The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-04-30
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Personal AND LITERARY.
RHopA BRouGHroN has q two-volume
iovel in press.
MARK TWAIN has given up the lecture
field on account of his health.
Nix. EDISON, it is reported, IS gong
to California to try new process Oh OK
tracing gold. p-o;+
man) is lecturing in Philadelphia on the
| decorative arts.
CIV. CABLE, the author OF ''The
Grandissimes," in Scribner's is . cot.
ton-broker at New Orleans.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE, Governor
of New Mexico, is writing q novel, the
scene of which is laid in Damascus.
SENAroR-ELECrMAHoNE, of Virginia,
weighs only ninety pounds. beating
Hon. Alexander Stephens by few
ounces.
JUDGE JERE. BLACK is noted for his
wonderful memory. He wears sandy
colored wig, and has fashion, in talk
ing, of twisting a silver tobacco box In
his hand.
PROF. JOHN FIsKE, the critic and lee
turer, is from Connecticut. large. tail
man, with dark curling hair and thick
red beard, with pale face and gold
trimmed spectacles.
Rev. DIR. PEABODY. of Harvard Uni
versity, now at the full age of three
score years and ten, was such Samson
in his youth that q farmer once offered
him extra wages if 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 Traveller, died recently in the
seventy-fourth 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 we'd
ding is to be celebrated at General
Sherman's house in Washington.
The Scandinavians in Paris gave
grand banquet in honor of Nordensk-
jold, 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
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
as Circuit Judge in his early days
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
laughable mistakes. One day a lady
comes in and asks for Dickens 8. 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 q
fourth wants "Madam Ramcat's Me-
moirs'' of Napoleon.
Mr.. JAMES PARTON. who has written
some of the best and most successful of
American biographies, says that an in
dustrious and capable writer can, dur
ing his best years, earn $1,000 or S.
600 a year, but that no man should
adopt literature as a profession unless
he has a fortune, or can live comfort
ably on $4,000 year. Mr.. Parton's
first book was the ''Lite of Horace Gree
ley," of which 40, 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
fifteen wears 400.