Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1890-09-25
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

--Ludovic Halevy announces his re-.
tirement from literary work. He is
tired and will write no moro unless he
concludes to finish an uncompleted
novel.
Salmon P. Chase's old law sign has
been discovered, covered with dust and
cobwebs, on building formerly occu-
pied by lawyers on Third street, near
Main, in Cincinnati.
Bertha Won Hillern is still an ardent
pedestrian, though most Of her time is
now devoted to work in her studio in
he Virginia Mountains. She is de-
vout Catholic, and frequently walks
eleven miles to church and back again.
Princess Helen Cusa, whose hus-
band died in Madrid lately leaving her
fortune of 5000, 900 francs, has de-
termined to devote her whole income to
charitable purposes. She has become
nurse in the children's hospital at
Jassy.
Sir Edwin Arnold's new epic, now
finished, 1.-The Light of the World, was
conceived before he wrote THE Light
of ASIA" and for. all inspiration and
correct localization he travelled extern
sively through the Holy Land. His
new epic is in blank verse, relieved with
occasional lyrics
Mr.. Gladstone estimates his library
to contain from 20, 900 to $4,000 books,
arranged by himself into minute d.
visions and sections. He thinks that
about one-forth of the volumes may be
theological. He has about twenty
editions of Homer, and from thirty to
forty translations, whole or in part.
"A complete list of the Sultan's
wives shows that he has FIVE first-class
wives, valides; twenty-four second class
or morganatic wives and some two hum
dred and fifty third-class partners, va
riously described as ''favorites' and
*'slaves." The'care and attendance of
the female establishments require the
service of 5000 persons, who are the
only people in Turkey who receive their
fulhPay with regularity.
From Cairo, by way of Germany, is
reported the discovery of Coptic manu-
script which: contains much new light
upon the Council of Ephesus in 431. It
consists of :a-series OF letters written
from Ephesus by Cyril, Patriarch Of
Alexandria, to his agent at the court of
Theodosius H., aHdcca report by his
agent, Victor the Younger, on the result
Of his negotiations
The American Humane Education
Society offers two prizes of $3.50 each
for best essays on this question: I'm
the interests of humanity should vivi-
section be permitted, and, if 50, under
what restrictions and limitations"
One prize of $3.50 is for the best essay
advocating vivisection, the other OF
$3.50 for the best essay opposing it. Es-
says must be received before January 1,
1891, by George T.. Angel, 10 Milk
street, Boston.
Editor Dana was selected as judg
to- pass upon the competitive poems
submitted by the Indiana amateur
journalists, and this is his report; II
have examined thoroughly the eight
poems submitted in competition for the
title of poet laureate, and it is my duty
| to say that there is not one of them
which merits such an honor They are
all commonplace in thought and medi-
OGRE: in treatment. I do not find an
original idea in them all, and the one
quality, which appears pretty evenly,
is facility in phrase-making and line
making" The amateur poets are in.
dignant