Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-03-19
liULYUM IN PARVO.

George Bancroft, tho historian. is tho
senior living doctor Of laws of harvard
college. s,& *&<
James Payne, the English novelist, fs
said to be strikingly like Talmage in per-
sons.l appearance. ~, 81
r. w lIlkia, Collins is not very rapid
WogSes:, and saldoen wr;tes more than tan,
PAGES Of nianuscriptn day. ~ 5c%.t .ysg.< sss
The New YoN World was originally
started as q daily religious paper, under
the editorial charge of j. Watson Webb.
John Ruskin is of slight build with
gentle blue eyes, and modest in nanneE
but a brilliant and charming oonversa~
tiona1ist. }r-.
Whittier has been much pestered by
women, One wealthy widow actually
proposed to him, and other women have
made violent love to him without avail.
Miss Mary A. T. Robinson, whose tIifo
Of Emily Bronte" which attracted wide
| attention, is described as a slender, DELI
cate young girl Of passionate enthusiasn1s.
Thuylow Weed never made a dollar
until after he YVES fifty. Horace Greeley
was poor as q church mouse until about
| the same age-or until after the Tribune
! bscame a success.
Oliver Wendell Holmes is as ready to
pop up at dinner and read his poem on
the occasion as he was thirty years ago.
And the poems have grown rather longer
as 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
iaded, 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 ssnocturnes"
and ':symphonies'' in color, is an American
by birth, and the quiet, rocky old town
of Stonington in Connecticut can claim
the honor Of being his birthplace.
sDaniel Webster is not loquacious,"
Carlyle wrote to Emerson in 1889, ''but he
is pertinent, conclusive; dignified, per-
fectly-bred man. AS a lOgic-fencer, advo-
cate, or parliamentary Hercules one would
incline to back him at first sight against
all tie cytc3t world"
Before her novel 'Granville de Vigne''
was written, Ouida was al unknown
writer getting i've dollars page only for
her magazines stones. She now receives
seven thousand dollars down for novel
Her name is Louise de La Rance Her
father was nsFrenchman. She lives in a
villa near Florence.
| London binders often get orders to I'LL
library shelves by the runriing yard. To
do this cheaply they bind up patent. office
reports in handsome covers and back them
with such titles as Macauley's Essays"
.Walpole's Letters,' which are subse-
quently put in bookcases, the keys Of
which are conveniently lost.
H. r. Haweis tells the following anec~
dote of John Richard Green: '*He was
full Of quick discernment and remember
one night his reading out some passages
Of S,winburne's then new book Of Poems
, and Ballads selected by the Atheneeum
for scathiDg ridicule, and saying, 'Ehis Is
the greatest master of poetical language
since Shelley, but he can't think.'''
A conlicaI incident is related of an eri
nent English nobleman who was presiding
, at press dinner. He concluded his few
feeble remarks by proposing the ''heafth
Of Gutenberg." Some one pull3d his coat-
tails and whispered that he was dead. II
: regret" continued the nobleman, s'to an
nounco that Intelligence has just been re-
ceived that Gutenburg is dead.''
A lady with fatal squint came once to
. fashionable artist for her portrait. He
looked at her and she looked at him, and
both were embarrassed. He spoke first
"Would your 1adyship permit me-" he
said, sto take the portrait in profile!
There is o certain sllyness about one of
your ladyship's eyes which is as difficult
in art as it is fascinating in nature'
Oliver Wendell Holmes attributes his
: years and good health to an early morning
I1- ril 1,ofr l. fo.
He was naturally OF q delicate constit,,
ton, and when he married Doctor Jack
sons daughter the father-in-law said tt
hi1n "If you have the necessary physique
to stand horseback riding, do it; il not
take an early walk each day" lie scrupu-
lousy followed the advice.
A gossipy writer in the Troy Press says
r of Bret Harte's father, whom he ract years
. ago. when he was a private tuter Of two
I Of bis playniates: Il remember him we'll
: o very pleasant gentleman. He married
girl out Of the mill. She was one of TIN
It most beautiful girls ever saw~-as hand
| some as a doll but had no education. He1
husband educated her, and she becam'
y one of the fnest ladies in Huasor.'
' The publishers Of q G ermsn novel re
{ Gently did s neat thing in the way @
=. ,aa-aertising. They caused to be irlscrte;
q il Iost Of the newspapers a3notice to tE
effect that certain nobleInan Of wealth
1 and high position, desirous Of finding
e wife, wanted one who resernl,led tn
e heroine in the novel named. Thereupo7
# every nlarrtageable woman who saw tin
. notice bought the book in order to ses
what the heroine was like, and the Tori
e had al immense sale.
j. Charles Dudley Warner, as an inetanc
d of what is regarded as successful author
# ship cites the history OF a bookmakin:
venture undertaken at the request of th
l. publishers For the stLife Of John Smith
Y he received 500 advance money. This h
paid away for obtaining information fron
original SOURCES in England and for ID
expenses Of copying. When he receives
= a statement from the publishers he fourit
s.. that he owed the latter some dollars O.
It the original hundred. r. ~
Id Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrup is
=, daughter OF Nathaniel Hawthorne, and i
par consequence d sister of Julian Haa
70 thorne. One might almost divine fror
ID looking at Mrs. Lathrop that her nam
,e vas Rose. She has the nvliest con
:. pIexion, with Heeting wild-rose tint j
~ her checks, eyes Of forget-ue-not blue, th
% reddest lips and Whitest teeth imaginable
eri above a,l,! c,uNnipg all is profusion <
;. reddish g.ld hair that Is aingnlarly attras
@. tive. AIRS. !, Il t;;1rop is the wife of Georg
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