The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-09-04
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
General Boulanger is said to be.
writing a drama, with Robert Emmett
as the central figure.

General Boulanger is said to bo
writing drama, with Robert Emmett
as the central figure.
Julia Ward Howe's writing is very
difficult to read. Her literature goes to
the printer in writing wholly unshaded,
snd with separate letters often twirled
and crushed out of shape.
p. T. Barnum has presented to the
public library of Bridgeport scrap
book containing all the illustrations
| and comments of the London papers on
| his show while it was in that city.
james Carlyle, brother of Thomas
Carlyle, died in Scotland recently at
the age of eighty-fve; he was ten years
younger than Thomas, and is said to
to have resembled him greatly in ap-
pearance and manner.
BY her will Mrs. Emily Pfeiffer,
the well-known English poet, who died
recently, bequeathes, with the excep-
tion of a few legacies, the whole of her
| personal estate of e63, 600 to charitable
and educational establishments for
women.
The Empress of Germany is lineal
descendant of the last Norwegian King,
Hakan ", who died in 1919. Hakan
v. descended directly from Harold l..
founder of Norway. 1t is because Of
this that the Emperor of Germany has
determined to build palace in Nor
, way.
-Bellamy is accused of taking his
book, "Looking Backward" from an
old German Author named Bebel, who
wrote novel on the same lines, en-
titled ''Woman, Present and Future"
Bellamy meets the charge with the
statement that he can not read German
and never heard of Bebel.
1t is reported that Mrs. Will am H.:
Vanderbilt and her son, Mr.. Cornelius;
Vanderbilt will erect, at cost of
$3.50, 900, "Peoples Palace" some
what after the plan offered by Mr..
Walter Besant in All Sorts and Condi-
tions of Men. The building will stand
at the corner of Forty-second street and
Third avenue, and will be devoted to
the use and recreation of the poor of
New York.
Isaac Pitman, the inventor of pho
biography, is a hoary-haired man with,
scholarly stoop, and still presides
over the Phonetic Institute, Bath, En-
gland. He is rising seventy-eight, yet
he supervises correspondence of thir-
ty thousand letters year, besides edit
ing the Phonetic Journal and compiling
the numerous books which he annually
publishes.
Zone Of the most widely known
American authors, lately credited with
earning $40, 600 by his pen, says that his
total revenue for 1SS9-including royal
ties on six novels, magazine articles,
and every writing during the year-was
exactly 81, 17O.4O. Propably not half
dozen American writer's, who have no
regular salaried position, do better than
this. Living by ones pen, except as
ok-keeper or journalist is only an
other name for starvation.
"A Boston lady writes home having
had tea with Rudyard kipling, whose
stories have aroused such intense inter-
est. She says he is rather shy, some-
what unused to women, and that there
is not in his manner one trace of the in
tense virility of his style of writing.
He is short in statue, square, with a
pale skin, brown hair, thin on top of
his large head, brown, near-sighted
eyes behind big spectacles, and wears a
close-cut mustache. There is strong,
bright strain of humor in his friendly
manners, and on occasions he gives de-
lightful afternoon teas in his London
chambers He is not over twenty-four
years of age, is in love with America.
and anxious to cross the ocean with his
father and family and make his home
in this country.