The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-24
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

An Australian millionaire named
Manat, who went from London To live
ut the antipodes some years ago, died
recently at his mansion in Victoria.
lie was the man who once sent an order
to England for a ton Of BOOKS.
Miss Braddon, the novelist. has one
great hobby - the collection OF old
china. She has o series Of magnificent
cabinets of this at her house in Rich.
mond. near London, and one room Is
known as the plate-room. because 1t is
hung round with china plates.
On the anniversary Of Lord Ne.
sons death every October his flag ship
is deliberately decorated with ever
greens, and the white ensign is freshly
displayed as it was all the night long
prior to the battle Of Trafalgar, when
he ordered it kept in view on every yes
sci OF his fleet, to Indicate that he
would engage the enemy the instant he
encountered him.
-Erastus Wiman has gone to the
Muslkoka territory, in Canada, about
three hundred miles north of Toronto,
where he has hunted nearly every sea-
son for twenty-five years. There the
Dwight Wiman Sporting club owns
two thousand acres, including many
lakes. 1t has log club house, raises
its own potato crop and makes its own
maple sirup, and the fame of its cuisine
is widespread.
The medal presented to Prof. yir-
chow at the recent jubilee is unique. 1t
measures lis millimeters in diameter,
weighs five pounds, and is made from
eighteen-carat gold. The front of the
medal bears a bust representation of
the professor in relief. The back is
adorned with an heraldic design. the
categorical figures of medicine and pa
thology, microscopes, books, skulls and
an Egyptian mummy.
The total number of distinct words
in the New Testament, excluding proper
names and their derivatives, is 4,S29. A
few comparisons may be interesting:
The vocabulary of the Old Testament
is larger. Gesnius' Lexicon emitting
proper names and obsolete roots, con-
tains $50 words, of which 642 are
marked 'Chald.' The 'Iliad and the
Odyssey together contain 9, 900 words.
Shakespeare uses $1,000 and Milton
5000. -Presbytcrian and Reformed Re-
view.
A unique thing in books is prom
Used to a chosen few. 1t is a book con-
tanning twenty-three poems by the late
Francis S. Saltus, Jr., the cratic young
genius who died a year or two ago. His
father will have twenty-five copies pub
lishcd by a Partisan house at cost of
SIS, 900. and will distribute them among
the personal friends of his son and him
self. The poems could not be brought
out in this country. Each poem is writ
ten in different language. The young
poet, whose brother is Edgar Saltus,
the novelist, lies in Sleepy Hollow GEN.
etery at Tarrytown, N. Y, where he is
to have Sl2, 900 monument
-Tsui Kno Yin, the present repre-.
sentative of the Chinese government at
Washington, has scholarly tastes, and
is especially interested in astronomy.
In order to gain time for study he is
| accustomed to retire at seven and rise
at three in the morning, to enjoy the
perusal Of his favorite authors while
the streets are quiet and his attention
not likely to be diverted by outside
sounds. Mrs. Yin, tiny creature with
| diminutive feet, does not speak English,
and on state occasions is quite thrown
in the shade by her brilliant husband.
She spends the greater part of her time
in retirement, and is an adept in the
art of intricate Chinese embroidery.