The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-05-24
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Robert Louis Stevenson was pait
Is, 900 for his last novel

Robert Louis Stevenson was paid
Is, 900 for his last novel,
About the llardest-workcd man on
the Century Magazine is the reading
editor--thc Master Of Manuscripts, as
it were. His name is c. G. Buel. and
he holds the fate of many literary as
pirants in his hands.
MIR. Alcott's grave is in Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, at Concord. between
the graves Of Thoreau and Emerson,
and not far from that OF Hawthorne.
His oldest and only surviving daughter
is Mrs. Pratt, who has two sons. His
youngest daughter, May, died in 1879,
leaving daughter who still lives. Mr..
Alcott had no sons.
George Kennan, the noted Rus
sian traveller, whose late articles on
political exiles have attracted wide at
tcntion, sent his first telegraph mes
sage when he was six years old. He
was telegraph operator in Cincin-
natl during the war, and entered Si-
IBERIA in the service Of the Western
Union Telegraph Company before he
was twcnty-onc.
Boyle o Reilly was talking with
friend who venturcd 10 suggest that
boxing was brutal sport. BRUTAL,
did you say?' exclaimed the poet, and
then, with that twinkle in his eye
which is always the sign Of something
bright and characteristic to come, he
added: why, bless your soul, man.
next to making love, boxing is the
tendcrcst thing in the world"
w. r. Hughes, of Manchester.
Eng. has III his house dickens
room" which contains from two thou
sand to three thousand articles relat-
ing to the famous novelist. Among
these are sixteen portraits. two hum
dred volumes of Dickens works, with
no less than eighteen editions of Pick
uick, and copy of the Autocrat Of the
Breakfast Table, with an inscription by
DR.. Holmes, bought at the sale of the
Dickens library. The tiles around the
fireplace in this room illustrate scenes
from Dickcns's novels, and Dickens
calendar on the wall marks the flight
of time.
George II. Boxer, the poet, has a
most luxurious library in his house in
Philadelphia, but when he wants per-
feet retirement he seeks the seclusion
of little room at the top of his house,
where no one may penetrate. Mr..
Boxer does most of his writing on a
lap tablet on his knee, and uses lead
pencil for his first draughts. He has
another little room in his house fitted
up rs work shop, and there he has
a lathe and other tools. and there he
works in metal. with results that a
skilled artisan might envy. 1t is his
boast that should necessity compel
him, he could earn good living as a
metal-workcr.
Mrs. Parker, of the Cook County,
H.. Normal College. has systematic
way of inducing pupils to give ur
the use Of corsets. She illustrates the
subject with art models, and sets them
good example by doing without cor
sets herself. But she finds it takes
about two weeks to get tho corsets of
tho girls. She also has plan oi
gradual reduction comparable to that
employed in quitting the alcohol OF
tobacco habit. Instead Of having the
corset removed at once. she has the
stecls and bones pulled gradually
from their castings, thus gradually de-
priving them Of this unnatural sup
port.-Foote's Health Monthly.