The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-08-27
PERSONAL AND LITERARY,

Mrs. FRANCIS HoDGsoN BURNETT,
| author of THAT Lass o. Lowries," is at
| work on new book entitled ssMercy."
PROFESSOR HUXLEY will deliver the
inaugural address at the opening of the
Science College at Birmingham on Oc-
| tober 1.
Mr.. Won BODENsrEDF will describe
his American travels and experiences
In Ceter Land und Nicer, an illustrated
periodical published in Stuttgart.
NJ. AtPHoNsE DAUDEr. the novelist,
was one OF family of seventeen broth
ers and sisters. He is native of Ms.
mes, where his mother is still living.
VICTOR HUGO, according to the Paris
ian. intends to leave all the manuscripts
OF his works. to the Bibliotheque Ma
tionale, in Paris. They are written on
paper of all kinds-cards, backs of let
tiers and envelopes.
WILLIAM TAPPAN THOMPSON sold the
copyright of his first book. ..Major
JonesS Courtship." for $3.50. He is
now sixty-eight years of age, and for
thirty years has been the editor of the
Savannah NeUs.
Mr.. GEORGE BANCROFT began fifty
five years ago this July his History of
the United States" and in few weeks
he expects to celebrate its completion
at his Newport country home Mr..
Bancroft came in with this century.
THEODORE MoMMsEN, the distinguish
ed German professor and antiquarian,
lost forty thousand rare volumes by the
burning of his villa at Charlottenburg,
a suburb of Berlin, recently. Professor
Mommsen was himself severely injured.
A FOREIGN letter to the Philadelphia
Bulletin says: am glad to hear that
Miss Fletcher has quite recovered from
her matrimonial mishap. She has re-
turned to her pen and finds solace in
writing some clever and brilliant
sketches on the English elections. She
is also preparing new novel for pub
LEGATION. in which she will introduce an
episode similar TO the one which hap
pened to herself last winter.
DIR. TALBOT, physician of Dighton,
Mass. died a few days ago, and his
books showed outstanding accounts
against persons whom he had visited
professionally in the towns of Dighton,
Somerset and Rehoboth amounting to
$40, ZOO. He scarcely ever presented a
bill, and it was difficult to get settle
ment with him. 1t is said that his pri-
vate papers contain request that no
bills against poor people shall be col
lected.
The Sioux Chiefs Spotted Tail and
Red Cloud have taken their children
away from the Indian school at Carlisle,
Pa, because corporal punishment was
inflicted there. "My boys and girls"
said Spotted Tail to the Superintend-
ent, on q recent visit, "shall never be
whipped by any one with my consent.
will not leave them at school, or
any other place, where the whip is used.
A whipped boy is apt to grow up a
whipped man. Unless he has some
spirit or life in him it is better that he
know nothing. A whipped man has
neither spirit nor life"
SECRETARY SHERMAN has fled and |
indexed every letter which he has re-
ceived for forty years. The most valu-
able are those received from his brother,
the General. The two brothers have
from the time they were
little boys. The letters number thou
sands. and make three huge volumes.
Some of them, written before and some
after great movements and battles,
cover forty pages of letter paper. These
letters were written from school, from
West Point, from the plains, from Cali
fornia, from foreign countries, from
in the saddle, in camp,
on drum-heads. and from every place
rlon o<,ld:o,. g 70, l,o