The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-08
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

"a sistcr-in-law 0. ono Of the rest
known and distinguished members OF
Parliament keep, Il fashionable lodging
house in London. where in the season q
majority of the patrons arc Americans.
Among the unpublished Ihackeray
manuscri ots now offered for sale in
London arc notebook containing
Loo fragments Of unpublished verses, q
scrap-book With 400 tracings and sketch
ings. and an album of sketches
= Lady Martin Miss Helen Faucit,)
in whose pew Browning used to sit
when visiting the little church at
Llanbysllio. Wales, when he spent the
autumn of 1856 at that place. has had q
memorial tablet put on The church with
the inscription: In memory Of Robert
Browning. uoet. born 1872. died 1889.
who worshiped in this church ten weeks
in autumn. 1856 bY Ills friend liclen
Faacit Martin
10 lIowarl says Of Henry Ward
Beecher: Il have seen him hundreds OF
times take his letters from the post.of
flee, open them as he walked along the
street. continue opening them in houses
whore he called and. in other words,
attend to his own business. That Mrs.
Heccher opened some of lis letters is
quite likely. but 20 say that il vas the
regular procedure. shedetermining what
TO answer and what to throw away, is
simply silly
a selection from tho correspondence
OF the late Queen Elizabeth Of Prussia.
wife cf King Frederick William ", is
to be published toward tie end of next
year. 1t Will he edited by Empress
Frederick 4 large collection OF the ac-
com mplished Queens letters was made by
Emperor Frederick. who intended to
| publish numherof them. lie had also
| proposed to write short biography OF
| his aunt. for whose intellectual quail
| ties he had the greatest admiration.
Tho London Literary World says
| that during one Of his recent sailing
| trips a fire broke out in Mr.. r. l.. Stew
enson's cabin. and the burning things
| were hurrieIly carried on deck or flung
| into the sea. Suddenly Mrs. Stevenson
| saw two of the crew with burning box
| which they were about to cast over
! board. Fortunately she was in time to
| save ii, or all Mr.. Stegenson's literary
notes for many months past, including
1 tine greater part Of story being writ
! ten ander contract for "a, 900. and much
of the history Of the island which is for
The future to be his home, would have
been irrecoverably lost.
While Evangelist Moody was thun-
/ dering strong truths into the hearts OF
| his hearers at Buffalo. A. y, recently,
an aged deacon who sat near him on the
| platform kept interiec ing audible and
! fervent "Amons'' and Goods Il man
with principle is 4 man to be admired
| above many others" roarei out Mr..
Moody. That's tree, mumbled out the
| deacon in tones Of rapture. Tie evan
| gelist turned around in,tanter and
shouted in his mellow voice: True, OF
course its true. What do you suppose
I'm telling here tonight, lies:" Tho
poor little deacon sabsidea.
DR.. Holmes tells in the Atlantic
that he has lust cleared the eight
barred gate" and taken step into a
field which few come within sight of
and still fewer enter The genial doc
tor says women grow old easier than
men. and this is strain from his DE
Senectute:' 20. If We could all 20 out
Of flower as gracefully. "a pleasingly.
as We come into blossom. | always
think Of the morning glory as the love-
liest example Of a graceful yielding to
the inevitable. l, is beautiful before
its twisted corolla opens; it il coniely
as it folds its petals inward, when its
brief hours Of perfection are over"