The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-10-09
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mime. Demotet, a dark-faced, little
old French lady, has furnished ice
cream and confectionery for all the
Presidents back to Buchanan.
Bismarck is we'll versed in English
literature, and has been known to quote
twenty or thirty lines OF "Lallah
Rookh" on the spur of the moment.
James Lane Allen, the Kentucky
writer, although quite a young man.
has head of hair and beard thickly
streaked with gray. He is very tall and
the possessor of shapely figure.
There is a fourishing Japanese
club in New York, Of which nearly
every native of Japan in the city is q
member. The president is the present
Vice-Consul. Teijiro Kito. who is thir-
ty-six years old and married.
An old manuscript volume of
apothecaries' lore and household rec
ipes, believed to date from about the
time of Queen Eliza beth, was discov-
cred some years ago among the papers
of the firm of chemists in Newcastle,
England. and q autographed fac simile
is soon to be published.
That Joel Chandler Harris is famous
Is the result only of the intrinsic merit
OF his writings. He leaves all airs,
mannerisms, and pretense to his barber
and boot black. TO strangers he is a
short, stout, shy little man, who is
always hard at work at a plain table
just inside the generel editorial room of
the Atlanta Constitution
Prof. Angeli has finished portrait
OF the German Empress, in which Her
Majesty is represented seated on a
terrace, dressed in soft gray silk
gown, trimmed with embroidery of the
same hue. Crossed over the breast is
the orange-colored scarf of the Order of
the Black Eagle. The Empress wears
strings of pearls wound round her neck
and wrists, and a handsome diadem Of
diamonds in her hair; in her hands,
which are folded, she carries fan of
gay ostrich feathers, the color of which
harmonizes with the rest of the picture.
"A rich Australian widow with an in
come of $l25, 600 year is the fashion
able sensation in London. Her story
illustrates what can be got out OF sill
yer mine in New South Wales. The
lady's husband paid e12O for certain
shares in this mine. When he died not
long ago the shares were comparatively
valueless, and he thought he was leav-
ing his young wife in destitution.
Shortly after his death the shares rose
suddenly to price so marvellous that
the widow sold one-half of her shares
for e19O, 600, and is now receiving s25,-
900 annually from the others.
John Pendleton. who has com piled
a book on Newspaper Reporting in the
Olden Time and To-day" gives this ex-
ample of how England's great journal
ist Of the seventeenth century. Ma
thaniel Butler, kept his readers in
formed: "A perfect mermaid was, by
the last great wind, driven ashore near
Greenwich, with her comb in one hand
and her lookingglass in the other.
She seemed to be Of the countenance of
most fair and beautiful woman, with
her arms crossed. weeping out many
| pearlv drops OF salt tears. and affair
ward she, gently turning herself upon
her back again, swan away without
being seen any more
The Gar of all the Russias, says
Thomas Stevens in the New York
World, looks less self-important than
some of our rural Congressman. l was
close to him, the Czarina and the Court
circle at the launching of the new i'm
perial yacht, the Polar Star. The Gar
and the Grand Duke Alexis look as
much alike as if they were twins The
Empress has pretty face, but like her
sister, the Princess of Wales, tits sweet
and winning rather than beautiful The
Russians call it the nose celestial in
worshipful Difference to its skyward
trend. Both Emperor and Empress are
loved and respected by the upper circles
and worshipped by the common people.