The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-11-06
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Tho late Rev. E. P. Roc will be
honored with monument at tho hands
of his townsmen at Cornwall, N Y.
HAIRY" Bee, who crossed the
plains in 1880 and secuted for General
Fremont, is still alive. hale and hearty.
The Marquis Of Salisbury weighs
over $50 pounds, and is constantly in
creasing in size. All attempts to in
duce him to take exercise or practice
dieting have SO far been Intellectual.
The relations between Norway and
Sweden are to be discussed in forth
coming volume, by DIR. Sigurd Ibsen.
The doctors claims to popularity in this
country rise out of the fact of his being
the son of the great and only Ibsen.
The Sultan of Sokoto, who rules
over 1000, 900 people in West Africa,
has presented his fellow-sovereign,
Queen Victoria, with magnificent lion.
The animal has arrived in Liverpool,
and will probably be taken care OF at
the Zoo"
Isaac Pitman, the inventor of
photography, is over seventy eight, but
still presides over the Phonetic Insti-
tnte at Bath, England, edits The
books, and oyerlooks a correspondence
of 80, 600 letters. He is teetotaler, a
stanch vegetarian, does not smoke, and
is in his Office every morning at six
o'clock.-N. Y. Ledger.
-"Bab," the sprightly newspape cor
respondent who SO continually babbles
through the columns of the daily news
paper, is reported to be earning larger
income by means Of her pen than any
otherliterary woman in New York City.
She appears about twenty-eight, is
sprightly in manner, dresses in the
height of fashion, is small of stature,
blonde in style, and has a pleasant word
for every one.
Says a commercial traveller: Il
have been an omniverous reader, but l
am disgusted with the trash which is
foisted upon the public in such floods.
The stuff that is offered at the railroad
news stands and on the trains is the
merest 'hog-wash, and it is almost i'm
possible to select book that one would
care to read a second time or recon-
mend to his friends" He might have
added that while literary trash is some
times interesting the trash now ex-
posed for sale and presumably read by
somebody hasn't even that merit. 1t is
dull, vapid and stupid.
One of Americas most extensive
continental travellers is Captain Newton
II Chitfon1.an 1oot ror0rtn1 OF Svo1y q
Falls, now making his twentieth trip
across the continent He was an officer
in the Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry, and
after the war graduated in law from Co.
lumbia College, New York. For the
past eighteen years he has been explor-
ing with the view to write history of
the tribes of the North American In
dians. He is proportionately we'll ac-
quainted with Alaska and British Amer
lea. He is descendant of Daniel Boone.
He is tall and Of striking presence, with
hair and beard long and wavy.
The most gigantic member of the
British peerage is the Marquis of
Drogheda, who is sixty.fve years Of
age, and who stands feet s inches in
his stockings. The Marquis is the life
and soul of the merriest of the merry
parties at Punchestown races. Though
he has given over racing himself, he
still breeds thoroughbred or two at
Moore Abbey, County Kildare. He is
an excellent and therefore resident
landlord and owns 20, 600 acres, worth
some $780, 600 year. A stanch Con-
aervative ha resemhles Mr. Gladstone
in one point, in his love for welding
the axe. lie is, moreover, second cousin
to Mr.. Parnell, for the Marquis grand
father and the Nationalist leaders
father ware hrOthers