The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-17
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Ex-Gov. Waller, OF Connecticut,
can dash off letters at fifty words to
the minute and at the same time keep
up a running conversation with any
body he wishes to talk to. His law
practice is something enormous since
he returned from London as consul.
-Tennyson has taken violent fancy
to Ada Rehan, while she speaks with
enthusiasm of the charm of the poet
laureate's personality, Of his health
and Of the enjoyment Of life which he
displays, though eighty-two years Of
age, some months older than Gladstone
The highest building in the world
has just been completed on the Sign Il
peak of Monte Rosa. An Alpine club
and Queen Margaret Of Italy contrib
uted the money for this hut, which
boasts of an altitude Of nearly fifteen
thousand feet. It is supplied with a
copper roof to protect it from lightning.
Walter II. Evans, young Indiana
botanist, who spent the summer explor-
ing the southwestern states in search of
cacti for the agricultural department,
says that he did not see single rattle
snake or tarantula in that region, which
is supposed to be their home. Isut he
had a rather thorny time OF it gathering
the cacti.
Sir William MacGregor. governor
OF British New Guinea. recently as
cended Mount Yule on Kovio as he
prefers to call it. The Kovio range is
volcanic and isolated from the main
chain of which Mount Owen Stanley is
the elimination. The kovio range is
under eleven thousand feet high and
is wooded to the very summit.
William X. Wilde, the English jour-
nalist. who has just been married to
Mrs. Frank Leslie, is over six feet tall
and well proportioned. and about thirty
nine years old. He has been a newspa-
per man for about twenty years, and
has also studied law and medicine. Al
though a brother of Oscar Wilde, he is
not disciple Of aesthetic nonsense.
The northwest provinces of Canada
have made bountiful provision for the
education of the multitudes of people
who are expected to some day occupy
this now somewhat lonesome expanse
"a Has bCb
apart 3,64S,00O acres of land for the
maintenance of public schools, Assini-
boia 3,O4O, 900, and Alberta 3. 200, 900.
Mr. Stiggins and Mr.. Chadband are
supposed to be two of Dickens best.
known characters. The other dav a
London vcstryman got up at meeting
and complained that he had been called
"a maw-worm, Pangloss, and Chad
band" and that he had found ..maw-
worm in his dictionary. but couldn't
find a suggestion even of what Chad
band or "Pangloss'' was!
A statistician in Paris had the pa
thence to count the number of words
employed by the most celebrated wri-
tiers. The works of Corneille do not
contain more than 1000 different words,
and those of Moliere 5000. Shakes
English authors, wrote all his TRACE
dies with $4,000 words Voltaire and
Goethe employ 10000 Paradise Lost
only contains 5000, and the Old Tesla
ment says all that it has to say with
5,642 words.
Massachusetts has more free circu-
lating and reference libraries than any
other state. 1t leads the list with TO
free libraries and IL reference libraries.
Illinois has "a free circulating libraries,
New Hampshire 81 of both, New York
35, Rhode Island 80. and Michigan 81.
Neither Delaware, Virginia, North Car
DINA, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ten
nessee, nor Kentucky has free circu-
lating library. although each has one
or more free reference libraries.