The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-01-15
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Miss Frances Power Cobbe, author
Of many books and one of the ablest Of
literary women, is, at the age of seventy,
hard at work both as a writer and re-
former. She is full of health and .vigor,
which she attributes to her simple diet
and regular ha bits, and gives much time
to the Antivivisection Society in Lon
don, of which she is president.
The Crown Princess of Denmark Is
famous for being the tallest and wealth
lest Princess in Europe. Her stature is
absolutely gigantic, being oyer six feet
two, and, SO far as her feftune is con-
cerned, she inherited $4,000, 900 from
her maternal grandfather Prince Fred
erick of the Netherlands, besides the
entire wealth of her father, the late
King Charles of Sweden.
The two portraits of Lord Tenny-
son are thus described by the Athe-
ife-size, nearly in full face; the eyes
are looking slightly downward, and
some of the upper part of the head is
seen. These are among the best like
nesses for which we are indebted to Mr..
Watts, rich in all the resources of his
palette, his sympathy and skill.
One lady in Boston has given Mr..
Angel, president of the American HUI
name Society, money to supply every
car-driver in Boston with a copy of
BLACK Beauty" Another lady in New
York has done the same for the car
drivers of one of the principal avenues
there, and Mrs William Astor supplied
all the drivers and stablemen in New
port with the gentle gospel of this fas-
cinating book.-The Student.
Queen Victoria had two love affairs
before she married Prince Albert. Lord
Elphinstone, a handsome young Scotch
man, was her first flame. Both were
deeply in love, but reasons of state for
bade a union. Shortly after this Vic
toria fell in love with Lord Fitzalan,
handsome and dashing young fellow,
who, however, seems not to have re-
ciprocated royalty's passion. He at
tempted to marry a barmaid, and this
cured the royal lady of her passion.
Il notice." said an English Glad
stonean now in New York, that people
here speak of the short remnant of
Gladstone's life But when l saw
Gladstone last summer he looked as
though he had the stuff in him for ten
years of work yet, and he can do more
business at this time than most men
who have not lived half his years. I
would not be surprised if the tree-chop-
per of l1awarden should be leader in
imperial politics till the close of the
nineteenth century,
Old Mrs. Tom Taylor, widow of the
dramatist. is one of the finest amateur
pianists in London. She is very small
and quite feeble, but it is quite wonder
full to see her hobble across a drawing
room to the piano and moment later
charm and bewitch every body by the
sad, sweet and almost timid melodies
she will play. Her eyes are so weak
that she could not read the music if it
was on the rest, and so she plays from
memory, or else improvises, taking her
own mood for the theme.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher grows
more beautiful as advancing years and
growing feebleness take possession of
her. She sits in a beautiful bay win
dow surrounded by birds and flowers,
and dreams of the days when she and
'lIenry" were struggling along in a lit
tie Western village, trying to keep the
pot boiling and the sermons written.
But those were long-ago days. Every
publishing firm in the country has asked
her to write the life of her dead hus-
band, but owing to her poor health she
has refused them all.