The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-02-07
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


Mrs. Henry Ward Bcecher writes
at q small, business-like desk. with
photograph OF Mr.. Beechcr standing
on it.
Carroll Mattingly. q Louisville
boy Of twelve years. is probably the
youngest publisher in the world. He
recently published q neat and credit
able holiday book.
The late Hir am Prentice was one
OF the oldest journalists OF New York.
He was eighty-seven years Of age. and
was the principal writer OF the cute
sayings OF children in the New York
papers.
Mrs. Gladstone's social, educa.
tional and charitable projects have
always been seconded by her husband.
who is moro proud Of his wife than
any thing else in the world, not ex-
cepting his own honorable and brill
liant career.
-" Tho Pilgr inns Progress" has
been translated into the language
spoken in Zanzibar, tongue called
Swahili. 1t was found necessary tc
make an adaptation rather than .
literal translation. A part OF the ver-
sion was prepared by the late Bishop
Steere.
Marie Henriette, Queen OF the Bel.
gians. has started magazine called
La Jeunc File. The Queen and her
daughter Clementine are the editors,
while the Queen OF Roumania will
write poem for each number. and il
is expected that the Crown Princess
Stephanic, OF Austria, will do the
pictures.
Lord Tennyson is the only living
author whose writings are used IN
civil-scrvice examinations in India. a
body OF candidates not long ago at
Madras found themselves stumped
by the question: What does this
line mean? Was proxy welded
| to q bootless calf?'" One candidate
| wrote that lie didn't know any thing
j about cattle breeding.
| When Miss Fawcett, daughter Of
the late Postmaster-General Of Eng
land. applied to famous mathemat.
ical coach at Cambridge to be taken
as his pupil. she was rudely repulsed.
and the ungallant tutor remarked that
he would take no tabbies." This
same Miss Fawcett has been system.
ntically beating the best man OF her
year in the Trinity College exami-
nations, and will doubtless be senior
wrangler for tho ensuing year.
On one of the shelves Of Mr.. Spur
geon's library is that precious copy Of
one of Mr.. Surgeons sermons which
was found in DR.. Livingstonc's box in
Africa. after the great missionary ex.
plorer's death. 1t was brought to his
daughter, who, thinking Mr.. Spurgeon
the most suitable possessor, sent it tc
him. The paper is brown with ago
and travel and climate, but on the top
OF the front pago can be seen the
words, Very good-D. L. in faint
pencil.
George w. Childs, OF the Public
Lodger, Philadelphia, walks daily to
his Office from his homo in Walnut
street, distance Of over a mile. He
passes along Philadelphia's chief thor.
oughfare-Chestnut street - partakes
! OF the nature of public reception
and many are the greetings, mods and
hand-shakings to which tho first citi.
zen OF the Quaker city is subjected.
His constant companion is Anthony j.
Drexcl, the well-known banker, and
their daily walk has become SO prom
inent feature Of Philadelphin lifs
that the spectacle is familiarly dubbed
the parade OF "me and Tony