Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1890-10-02
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Queen Victoria's chief cook 10
Mohammedan.
1T Is estimated that 1862. 087 volumes
have been added to tho college Libraries
OF the United States during the pest
year, making the total number OF vol
umes in such libraries 2, 1888, 49S.
Francis Power Cobbe is sixty-eight
years Of age. and still active in her liter
ary productiveness 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 millionaire
in tho 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 SIS, 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.
MIR. Gladstone, in q recent speech in
the House of Commons, delivered one
sentence of 214 words, which in type
made twenty-four lines. It has been
remarked OF it that, Notwithstanding
''its extraordinary length and the more
or less extemporaneousn nature of its ut
\ "a y,.sn M 4pnn 70 oorfootov
clear and not in the least involved.
Literary men, according to CELSIUS.
have universally weak stomacha2
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
transporting to his viscus. And an
eminent physician once asserted that
mind by the dalicacy 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 moni-
tors. and somehow the fuse had failed
to go of. 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
of work which will contain collec-
Wisconsin writer's. The book will be
an octave. and will contain five hum
bred 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
a study of novel heroes. Out of 1872 Of
these gentlemen that came out between
October and June last it is discovered
that eighty-five 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
nero. 1t is observed that lady writer's
male characters tall The reading pub
lilo 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.