Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-12-13
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The New York Mercantile Library
1ow has 200, al volumes.
The new Governor-Generalo of Cam
ada brought thirty-nine servants with
aim from England.
Elaine Goodale, the girl poet of
Massachusetts, has gone as teacher to
the Indian school at Hampton, Va
Boston Herald.
The Youngest grandfather on record
lives in Trinidad, Tex. His name is
Reese Butler, and he is thirty years old.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Gerald Massey. an English con-
structor of metaphysical conundrums,
is coming over to lecture on: .'Why
Doesn't God Kill the Devil?''
Captain Wayne Reid had intended
to write his Personal "reminiscences of
the Mexican War for publication in
the Philadelphia Times. and was just
entering upon the work when he died.
Mr.. Blaine objects to the word
"new' as applied to his literary pur-
suits. Il almost began life in Augusta
as reporter he says. land after
ward edited a newspaper. Writing is
really second nature to me. l find it
easy and pleasant work
Thomas Foley, the Ricardo of the
minstrel stage. went to his mothers
home in Brooklyn a few days ago and
died there. The New York Tribune
thinks it a coincidence that the song in
which he was most a favorite was
"Dear Mother, I've Come Home to
Die
&c Sarah Bernhardt," says Oscar
Wilde, is all moonlight and sunlight
combined; exceedingly terrible; mag
niticently glorious. Miss Anderson is
pure and fearless as mountain daisy;
full of change as river; tender. fresh.
sparkling, brilliant, superb, placid"
The New York Commercial Adrer-
Users editors have been: ''NOah Web
ster, 1897 to 1908; Zachariah Lewis,
1903 to 1920; William l.. Stone, 1920 to
1874; Francis Hall, 1S44 to 1868: Will
lam Henry Hurlbut, 1863 to 1867; Thur
low Weed, 1867 to 1868; Hugh j. Hast
ingS, 1868 to 1881
The Grand Duke Alexis, of Russia,
whose visit to this country was social
event while General Grant was Presi-
dent, is now first to get married, at the
age of thirty-three. His chosen wife is
the Princess Amelie of Orleans. eldest
daughter of the Count of Paris, a Roman
Catholic, and is to remain SO. The
wives of Russian Princes have hitherto
all been Germans, except in the case of
Alexander Ill, the present Gar, whose
wife is Dane. Alexis is now Admiral
in-Chief of the Russian navy.
John Swinton speaks as follows Of
Henry Willard Il met him first during
the war, in front of Richmond He
then newspaper correspondent. He
wasa slender, bright-faced, long-legged,
eccentric young fellow then, with as
light purse as the other members OF
his craft, but now, | believe, though |
have not seen him since then, he is
solid man, over middle age. richer than
Cr9sus, and up to the neck in huge I'M
dertakings. Poor Willard! barefoot
boy of Germany, Golden Spike of Amer
ica.-N. y Tribune.
Mr.. Crawford, author of CDR.
Claudius. is an exceedingly rapid
writer. This seems eratuitous state
ment in view of the facts: but he writes
more rapidly than would appear, even
from the manner in which he publishes
his stories. He has exceedingly method
ical brains, and before he puts pen to
paper he has thought out, not only his
plot, but the manner in which he is 90
ing to frame it, so that when he sits
down he writes straight Or until he has
finished his story. He writes legible,
bold hand, and there is scarcely an
erasure in his manuscript.