The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-03
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The public executioner in England.
James Berry, has written book en-
titled men and Woman l Have Exc
cuted." ..
-Mudie's great library in London
has put into circulation since its foun-
aation nearly four million books. An
annual ticket costs guinea, and. for
this sum a diligent reader can peruse
books that it would cost him about ST.
900 to buy.
"A leading New York publisher en-
ploys at large salary young lady
who is useful to him alone on account
Of her memory. She has read almost
every thing in the whole range of fic-
ton, and can detect at once borrowed
plots and expressions.
Prof. Huxley's autograph is offered
for sale attached to a letter containing
the following PASSAGE: II look upon au-,
tograph hunters as "a progeny of Cain.
and treat their letters accordingly.
Heaven forgive you if you are only an
unusually ingenious specimen of the
same race" r.. .".e~
DIR. Holmes gives good hint to the
budding authors who shower their
volumes upon him when he speaks of the
Paris omnibuses which carry the sign
''complet," prefacing this with the re-
mark that after certain period in life
it is always with an effort that we ad-
NIT new author into the inner circle
Of our intimacies.
Young Roland Bonaparte. at tn cage
Of twenty-five, was enabled by reason of
his princely title to marry young Miss
Blanc, the daughter of the Monte Carlo
banker, who died soon after her mar
riage, leaving to her young husband one
Of the largest fortunes in France. He
1evotes himself to scientific pursuits,
writes books and gives lectures on the
various parts of the world which he has
visited.
Violet ink, once regarded as par
1onable feminine vanity, has come to
be the favorite of all writing fluids. 1t
has the advantage over black in that it
flows more easily and is softer to the
eyes, considera tion of the utmost i'm
portance to those who do great deal of
writing. For this reason it has been
called the authors ink and among those
whose manuscripts are written in violet
are Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Catherine
Hillard, Margaret Deland, Mrs. M. B.
Field, Emily Faithful and Edith Ses-
sins Upper.
Few persons are aware that Mr..
Gladstone's father spelled his name
Gladstones until February 10, 1885,
when by royal letters patent permission
was given him to drop the final $. In
speals Eg of the library of Mr.. Gladstone
at Hawarden the other day the Pail
Mall Gazette said: ''Mr. Gladstone is
not only himself selecting all the books
and arranging them on the shelves with
his own hands, but in each case he is
marking those passages which seem to
him most important and which have
had most influence on his own mind and
life. The library will thus be an actual
collection of books that have Influenced
him."
Lawrence Hutton, the literateur,
whose house overfows with curios of all
kinds, began his collection with death
mask of Cromwell, bought from q boy
who found it in an ash-barrel. In
the same barrel Hutton, who accom-
panied the boy to the place, found masks
Of Washington, Franklin, Laurence
Sterne, Wordsworth and Walter Scott.
A collector of these masks had died, and
his widow threw them into the street
There wasn't much encouragement for
collector in this circumstance, but Hut
ton there and then began his collection,
which is one of the most valua BILE in ex-
istence.