Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-10-29
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Wilkie Collins Is not very rapid
worker and seldom writes more than ten
pages Of manuscript day.
The New York World was originally
started as n daily religious paper, under
the editorial charge of j. Watson webb
John Ruskin is OF slight build, with
gentle blue eyes, and modest in manner,
but brilliant and charming converse
tionalist.
Whittier has been much pcstcrcd by
women. One wealthy widow actually
| proposed 10 him, and other women have
made violent love % him without avail.
Miss Mary \. T. Robinson, whose Life
/ OF Emily Broutc' which attracted wide
\ attention, is described rs slender, deli
/ cate young girl Of passionate cnthusiasms.
ThIrlow Weed never made a dollar
until after he was fifty Horace Greeley
Was poor as "A church mouse until about
/ the same agc-or until after the Tribune
became success.
Oliver Wendell Holmes IS ms ready 10
pop up at dinner and read his poem on
the occasion as he was thirty years ago.
And the poems have grown rather longer
rs the years roll on
Theodore Tilton's once fair brown locks
now hang over his shoulders in ragged
tangles Of gray his eyes look heavy and
faded, and there are deep wrinkles all
over his face Moreover he is growing
fat and commonplace looking.
Whistler, the London artist who has
become famous through his "uocumCs"
and symphonies in color, is an American
by birth, and the quiet, rocky Old town
OF StOniugton in Connecticut can claim
the honor of being his birthplace.
"Daniel Webster is not loquacious"
Carlyle wrote TO Emerson in 1889, 'but he
Is pertinent, conclusive, a diguiicd. per-
fectly bred man. As a logic-fcnccr, advo-
cate, or parliamentary Hercules one would
incline 10 back him at first sight against
all the cNtaut world"
Before her novel "Grauyille de Vigne"
was written Ouida was an unknown
writer getting five dollars n page only for
her magazine stories She NOW receives
seven thousand dollars down for a novel.
Her name is Louise de la Rance Her
father was a Fronchmun. she lives In a
villa near Florence
London binders often get orders to I'll
library shelves by the running yard To
do this cheaply they bind mp patent. Office
reports in handsome covers and back them
with such titles as Naclulcy's ESSAYS"
"WalpJic'S Letters which arc subse-
qucutly pat in bookcases, the keys OF
which are conveniently lost.
H. IL. Haweis tells the following anec-
dotc Of John Richard Green: ole was
full Of quick disCerumcut and remember
one night his reading ont some passages
Of SWiubuTne's then new book OF Poems
and Ballads, selected by the AthcnHum
for scuthing ridicule, and saying This Is
the greatest master Of poetical language
since Shelley, but he can't think"
4 comical incident is related Of an emil
nent English uoblcman who was presiding
at a press dinner. He concluded his few
feeble remarks by proposing the health
Of Gutenberg" Some one pulled his coat
tails and whispered that he was dead. II
regret" continued the nobleman, "to an
nouncc that intelligence has just been re-
ccivod that Gutenberg is dead"
\ lady with fatal squnt came once 10
a fashionable artist for her portrait He
looked at her and she looked at him, and
both were embarrassed. He spoke first
"Would your ladyship permit me-" no
said' $50 take the portrait in prohle'
There isa certain shyness about one az
your ladychip's eyes which is as difficult
in art as it is fascinating in nature"
Oliver Wendell Holmes attributes his
years and good health % an early morning
walk or horseback ride before breakfast
He was naturally OF q delicate coustitu-
ton, and when he married Doctor Jack
sons daughter the father-in-law said 10
him: III you have the necessary physique
to stand horseback riding. do It: II not
take an early walk each day" lie scrupu-
lousy followed the advice
\ gossipy writer in the Troy Press SAYS
Of Bret Harte's father whom he ct years
ago. when lac was private tutor Of two
IF his playmatcs. 'Ieemembcr him we'll
very pleasant gentleman He married
a girl ont OF tie mill She was one Of tho
most beautiful girls ever saw-as hand.
ONE as a doll but had no education. Her
husband educated her, and she became
one Of the finest ladies in Hudson"
The publishers OF n German novel re-
emily did neat thing in the way OF :
ldvertising. They caused TO be inserted
n most OF the newspapers a notice TO tho
fleet that certain noblemau Of wealth
md high position, DESTROYS OF finding a
wife, wanted one who rcscmblcd tho
Jerome in the novel named Thercupon
very marriageable woman who saw the
lotce bought the book in order to see
What the heroine was like, and the work
ad an immense sale.
Charles Dudley Warner, as an instance 1
# what is regarded as successful author !
hip, cites the history Of n bookmaking =
enture undertaken AT the request Of the
publishers. For the life of John Smith"
e received 500 advance money. This he
'aid away for obtaining information from
rigiual sources in England and for the
expenses OF copying. When lac received
statement from the publishers lac found
hat be owed the latter some dollars on
hc original hundred.
Ms Rose Hawthorne Lathrop is
aughtcr Of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and is
ar consequence sister OF Julian laW-
horne. one might almost divine from
,oking at Mrs Lathyop that her name
.as Rose She has the loylicst com
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