The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-10
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Gladstone pays but little attention
to doctors, and in some respects is very
reckless of his health. lie is frequent
y seen out of doors without an over
coat at times when the wind seems cold
and raw to younger man. But he
rarely takes cold.
Some criticism has been made of
the prince of Wales for shooting in kid
gloves, and calling him a butterfly
sportsman. The English press are in
lignant at this accusation and say he is
by far the finest shot in the royal fam
ily, and can hold his own in any coun-
try.
Prince Henri ID Orleans is a nice
looking young man of agreeable man.
ners. who is often seen in the Partisan
world, chiefly in the houses of members
Of the monarchic party. IL he has any
marked characteristic it is his extreme
" English appearance, which is accent
uated by his almost exaggerated style
Of English dress.
-0sman Pasha, the hero of plevna,
has been located as sealer in the
kitchen Of the sultan of Turkey. His
peculiar business is to seal all the
dishes for the sultan's table as soon as
they are prepared, and thus secure
against poison they are carried into the
royal dining-room, and the seals broken
only in the sultan's presence.
Robert Harrison. who has been
librarian OF the London library for more
than thirty-four years, has had re-
markabse opportunity to meet and
know personally many of Great Britain's
greatest men and women. Among his
acquaintance have been Thackeray.
Lord Lytton, Charles Reade, George
Eliot, Carlyle and Gladstone.
Frank b. Sanborn. the philosopher.
is a man whose name is not often heard
by the world these days. Yet in Emer-
sons time he was the brightest and
best beloved of the coterie of scholars
and poets who gathered about the Con-
cord sage. Sanborn still lives in Con-
cord, and is identified with the modern
school of philosophy there. lie is a
tall, slender man, and when he appears
in Boston is conspicuous for broad
brimmed, soft white hat and big red
flowing cravat.
Miss Virginia Fair, the young Cali
fornia heiress, will hereafter make her
home in New York. She is charming
young girl in her early teens. She is
refreshingly natural, as .bright as the
proverbial dollar, and wonderfully
worldly-wise for her age. She is tall,
slender girl, with thick, curling hair of
russell brown, very decidedly tinged
with auburn, and with great gray eyes.
When the fair Virginia Fair attains her
majority she will be one of the richest
young women in America. Her educa-
ton, which has hitherto been conduct
ed in convent, will continue under
private tutors
When the late James Parton, the
historian, was getting his early school
ing he became passionately enamored
of the Greek language, and he thought
that if he became barber he would
have time to study it, for he had noticed
the artists of that ancient craft had
much spare time on their hands in the
town white Plains, n. y where he
then was. So the shop was all planned,
as was also his line of action. lie
would have in the rear of his workshop
a back room, which would. serve as a
study, and when the chairs in the front
room were empty he would retire to
the study" and drink i'm Greek in allo-
pathic doses. But after mature DELHI
Grafton lie decided that such a course
would require a deal of heroic courage,
and as he did not attribute to himself
large measure of heroism, the barber.
shop project fell to the ground.