The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-09-10
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Paul Revere, the hero of the IA
nous ride, was the president of Bos-
toms first board of health. It was or
ganized in Faneuil hall in 179Y.
Browning would never write for
magazine. He wrote: 81 can not bring
myself to write for periodicals. If I
publish book, and people choose to
buy it, that proves they want to read
my work. But to have>them turn over
the pages of magazine and find me-
that is to be an unlimited guest.
-Bjornson, the Norwegian novelist.
writes so abominably that no one but
his wife can read his untidy MS. Fru
Bjornson helps her husband great
deal by copying all he writes, recopy-
ing after he has corrected and altered
until sometimes she writes the whole
of a book three or four times over.
Dove cottage, the simple little
dwelling at Grasmere, wherein Words.
worth lived so long with his sweet Sis
ter Dorothy and wrote much of his
best work-and where De Quincy lived
afterward and wrote the Opium Eat
er''-is now the property of the British
nation. 1t is to be restored and kept
in perfect order
Practically the fifteen-year-old king
of Servia is prisoner to his tutors.
They bore him day in and day out I'M
til he is dropping. Young as he is this
wonderful boy is one of the very best
mathematicians in the whole of Servla.
He can actually add up five columns of
figures at once with apparent ease. He
inherits his mothers striking beauty
and all the cleverness of both parents
The official literary statistics OF
Turkey show that during the year 1890
only $40 books were published in Con-
stantinople. Of this number 4O7 were
in the Turkish language, mostly novels
and theatrical pieces; 100 in the Arme-
MAN tongue, principally religious con-
tents; Sc in Arabic, on jurisprudence,
philology and religious dogmatism, and
the rest were in other languages of
Europe.
Mrs Sarah A. Havemeyer proposes
to give to the New York Church Extern
sion and Missionary society, out of the
fund of 5000, 900 left at her disposal by
the will of the late Hector C. Have
meyer, the sum of $50, 900, on condition
that it be invested in a permanent fund,
to be known as the Hector C. Have
meyer memorial fund, the income aris-
ing from it to be devoted to the uses of
the society.
TO it's already large collection of
manuscripts in the handwriting of ia
nous authors, the British museum has
lately added the entire set of George
Eliot's works, with the exception of
''Scenes in Clerical Life" The writ
ing of these manuscripts is unusually
clear and neat. They were left by
will to George Lewes, and were to re-
vert, at his death, to the museum.
Each book is prefaced with a dedica-
ton to Mr.. Lewes.
Few Boston people know who Dan
iel S. Ford is, yet in reality he is one of
Boston's richest men. He is the owner
of the Youths Companion, the most
prosperous paper of its kind in the
world, and INDUCES in yacths and fast
horses, and gives thousands of dollars
in charities. but socially he is recluse
and is rarely seen except by a small
circle of acquaintance. Mr.. Ford is
seventy years old and we'll preserved.
He was poor printer when N. P. Will
lis founded the journal which Mr.. Ford
afterward built up to greatness.