The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Clarence V. Greathouse, formerly
San Francisco newspaper man, has sue
ceeded in winning the favor of the King
of Corea, and has been made Deputy
King.
Stanley travelled 5,400 miles in the
interior of Africa on his last expedition,
all but 1000 miles of it on foot. Three
hundred persons were rescued in the
three years.
Captain Charles King is busy finish
ing a new military romance, Captain
Blake" being the chosen title. It will
be the third in "The Colonel's Daugh
ter" series. When this is completed
Captain King will fulfill commission
from the Harpers for story something
on the order of "Between the Lines"
but on Western fields.
United States Treasurer Huston is
devoted horseman, and at his place at
Connersville, Ind, he has handsome
stables, the stalls of which contain
valuable horses of aristocratic lineage
and noble records. Mr.. Huston is
student of the trotting horse, and his
stables invariably carry off prizes when
they are exhibited at fairs and horse
shows.
The Ministry of Education of Rus
STA has issued circular forbidding all
persons of high standing in the manage
ment of schools and colleges to allow
authors to dedicate their works to them.
Works of very Indifferent and, in
some instances, even of an Objectionable
nature, if they are dedicated to persons
of renown in the educational circles
necessarily enjoy the patronage of those
persons, and find more readers than is
desirable
-"Wooton," Mr. George w. Child's
place at Bryn Mawr, is one of the hand
soonest and most extensively maintained
coun try-places in the United States.
The annual expenditure is not far from
$50, OG4. of which Sl2, 900 is paid to house
servants and other employees. Twenty
men and twelve horses are kept busy
all the year round in caring for the
farm and grounds; and, in summer. six
additional men are required to look
after the lawn, while as many more as
sist the gardener.
An amusing incident recently oc-
CURED at Carlsbad, where an American
gentleman from Buffalo, n. Y, entered
his name in the hotel register as 'James
I. King. Of Buffalo, New York" An
open-eyed but hasty reporter announced
in the daily paper that J ames the First,
Whereupon such tide of beggars,
tradesmen and loafers surrounded Mr.
King, some of them mistaking him for
the original buffalo Bill" that he was
forced to leave the place.-N. Y. Ledger
The English historian Lecky, who
has just written, after nineteen years
of toll, the concluding chapters of his
great historical work, is a graduate of
Dublin University. His college career
was most eventful as regards scholar
ship. Honors and prizes each as most
students covet had no attractions for
him, and his class rank was not high,
but he read assiduously for the mere
love of learning, and his first book,
published when he was twenty-threc,
was monument of historical research.
Sarah Orne Jewett, when a little
child, in South Berwick, Me-, used to
go out riding about the country great
deal with her father, who was physi-
clan. 1t is said that the old doctor,
from a long and familiar intercourse
with his humble patrons, had absorbed
a vast amount of folklore, and was a
great story-teller. Not few of the
tales with which the good doctor used
to entertain his little companion on
these rides, having been touched by the
genius of the now famous authoress,
have found their way into her popular
stories. There are localities in the
neighborhood of Wells and York
beaches which would be instantly rec
ognized by person familiar with Miss
Jewett's beautiful description.