The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-08-27
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Germany publishes more periodi-
Gals than all the rest of Europe.

Germany publishes more periodi-
Gals than all the rest of Europe.
Rev. Samuel Plantz, Phi. D., who is
pursuing a special course of study in
church history at Berlin university,
writes that there are nine hundred and
eight students in the university from
America, eighteen of whom are Meth
odist ministers.
Among the few women in New York
who have taken to the foolish fad Of
wearing a ring on the thumb Mrs.
Charles II. T. Coils, Ella Wheeler Will
cox and Lillian Russell are named. Mrs.
Coils thumb ring is set with sapphires
and diamonds; those of the others are
set with diamonds alone.
A newspaper in the gypsy jargon,
the Romany tongue, is soon to be pub
lished in England with the expectation
of making it the organ of the wander
ing people. 1t will be edited by George
Smith, the king" of the English gyp-
sizes, who counts upon getting twenty
thousand subscribers to it.
DIR. NJ. A. Holmes, of Waterville,
aged seventy-eight, has a grandfather
still living in England at the great age
of one hundred and fourteen years The
latter is surgeon by profession, and
DIR. Holmes remembers that when a
boy he assisted his venerable ancestor
in the amputation of soldiers leg.
George KEENAN, is famous for his
wonderful memory. He is an omniv-
orous reader, and his system enables
him to retain large proportion of what
he reads. KEENAN, passes his summers
at a charming spot in one of the British
North American provinces, and his
home is the scene of much hospitality.
-Puvis de Chavannes, who succeeds
Meissonier as president of the National
Society of French Artists, is great
painter of frescoes, and has decorated
the walls of many public buildings in
Paris and the provinces. He is well I'd
vanced in years, tall, intellectual and
an elegant gentleman. It is hardly
necessary to say that he does not share
his predecessors unreasonable hatred
for Americans.
Manuscripts left by Count Won
Moltke. containing accounts of his
youth, notes on various tours, a nara
tive of the war with France, and other
interesting matter, are already in the
hands of German printers. The great
general was an attractive writer, and
had he devoted himself to literature
might have gained as great fame as he
won through the sword.
The Mexican president, Porfirio
Diaz, is straight, dignifed man of me-
dunn height, who impresses the be-
holder with his strength of character.
There is nothing ostentatious about
him. He dresses DIS quietly as a plain
citizen of the republic, and exhibits
contempt for the gaudy regimentals in
which many Central American leaders
array themselves. He has striking
face and figure, and is undoubtedly the
greatest man of modern Mexico.
Walter Savage Lander and his
wife separated because they had no life
in common and no common sympathies
or tastes Kenyon records an occur
renee in the pairs honeymoon which
tells the whole story. On one occasion,
it seems, the newly-married couple
were sitting side by side. Lander was
reading some of his own verses to his
bride-and who could read more ex.
quisitely?-whena all an once the lady.
releasing herself from his arm, jumped
up, saying: "Oh, do stop, Walter,
there's that dear delightful Punch per.
forming in the street. l must look out
of the window" Exit poetry forever.
One takes as a matter of course the
pictures of Salvini and Davenport and
Mansfield scattered about on desk and
table of the girl of the period, but
visitor looked little surprised on see
ing picture of Rudyard Kipling on the
colonial desk of a young woman af-
hicted with the journalistic fever
Eyes, 1 am very fond of Rulyard,'
said the owner of the 'den," land
when l want a particularly pat word
or phrase l just look up and catch his
eye, and it hops right into my head:
and when I'm getting too prolox he
looks over his glasses and says: But
that's another story and 1 stop short"
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