The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-10-02
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Queen Victoria's chief cook is I
Mohammedan.

Queen Victoria's chief cook is a
Mohammedan.
1t is estimated that 16a, 9s7 volumes
have been added to the college libraries
Of the United States during tho past
year, making the total number of VOL
umes in such libraries 2,SS3 49S.
Francis Power Cobbe is sixty-eight
years of age, and still active in her liter
airy productivcncss. She is at the head
of the anti-vivisection movement in En-
gland, and power in its labors, both
with tongue and pen.
Probably the smallest millionai-e
in the country is Jacob Seligman, who
is hardly more than four feet high. He
came from Germany when boy, and
went to Michigan twenty years ago
without dollar. His fortune is now
estimated at S15, 600. 600.
A library exclusively intended for
women has been opened at Turin. The
rooms are elegantly furnished, and the
tables covered with all the best period
icals and newspapers that can interest
female readers, while the best modern
books fill the shelves. Turin, it is said,
Is the first Italian city that can boast of
such a library.
Mr.. Gladstone, in a recent speech in
the House of Commons, delivered one
sentence of PA words. which in type
made twenty-four lines 1t has been
remarked of it that, Notwithstanding
tits extraordinary length and the more
or less extern poraneous nature of its ut
teranccs, the sentence was perfectly
clear and not in the least involved"
Literary men, according to CELSIUS,
have universally weak stomachs.
Aristotle had this organ so feeble that
he was obliged to strengthen it by the
application of an aromatic oil to the
region of the stomach, which never
failed to impart its cordial effects by
transpiring to his viscus: And an
eminent physician once assorted that
he could estimate the capacity of the
mind by the delicacy of the stomach.
Just after the war ended the Navy
Department gave Ericsson 15-inch
she'll found among the ruins Of Sumter
1t had been fred from one of the mont
tors, and somehow the fuse had failed
to go off. Ericsson sent it to the King
of Sweden, and the good Oscar placed it
in the great museum at Stockholm
with fitting and touching inscription
in honor Of one of the most honored of
Swedes. It's there now.
Mrs Louise Phillips and Mrs. Au-
bertine Woodward Moore, two we'll
known literary workers, residing at
Madison, have begun the compilation
ton of stories, sketches and poems by
Wisconsin writer's. The book will be
an octave, and will contain five hun
dred pages. More than one hundred
writer's will be represented in its pages.
The Introductory chapter will give a
brief history of literature in Wisconsin,
and in addition there will be direc-
tory of Wisconsin writer's.
Tho Speaker, of London, has made
study of novel heroes. Out of 1872 of
these gentlemen that came out between
October and Juno last it is discovered
that eighty-fve stood six feet, while
many were even taller. Compared with
those of the nine months preceding last
October, the heroes of the period in
question show an increase in height
averaging three-quarters of an inch per
hero. it is observed that lady writer's
show a marked tendency to make their
malc characters tall. The reading pub
lie would willingly allow some of the
fair novelists the right to lengthen their
heroes to any extent if they could only
be induced to shorten their stories.