The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-12-03
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Rivalry stimulates the benevolence
OF Pacific coast millionaires. Mrs.
Phoebe Hearst, widow of Senator
Hearst, has endowed five three hundred
dollar scholarships for young women
at the state university.
Lovers of Scott will be glad to know
that Andrew Lang, in editing the new
edition upon which he is now engaged,
has been granted access by the novel;
lists great granddaughter to all mate
rial now at Abbcttsford.
Mr.. David Pell Secor, of Bridge.
port, Conn.,, has purchased for the Lee
land Stanford, Jr., university, Cal,
the large and celebrated herbarium of
the late distinguished botanist. Prof
William Henry Harvey, of Trinity COL
lege, Dublin.
Miss Betham Edwards, the English
novelist, believes in vegetarianism in
life and cremation after death. She is
woman of strong likes and dislikes,
and, apart from her own peculiar fads,
has thorough contempt for fads which
do not fit into her ideas.
Francis Darwin, son of the great
Charles Darwin, bids fair to become a
great scientist, thus making the fourth
generation in direct descent who have
thus distinguished themselves, and Civ
ing the lie to the old theory that all
gre at mems sons are buffers.
-Othman, third caliph of Bagdad,
A. D. ga, was the first TO introduce tho
time-worn formula: "Unaccustomed as
! am to public speaking" At least, SO
we are informed by no less an authority
than Sir William Muir in his "History
of the Rise and Fall of the Caliphate."
Secretary Rusk preserves many Of
the primeval manners of his rustic boy
hood. 1t is a rare thing to find him up
after nine o'clock in the evening, and if
nothing prevents he goes to bed at half.
past eight. lie gets up at daybreal,
and instead OF lunch at noon has din
ner at that hour and supper at six.
The recent death of William Henry
Smith in England recalls the testimony
TO his sagacity which was unconsciously
offered by the late Lord Iddesleigh in
his will. He directed that when his ex.
ecutors were in dou ct bout destroying
any of his manuscripts they were to he
guided by the advice of Mr.. Smith.
During visit to Won
this summer William Winter. the New
York dramatic critic. discovered q jug
and cane which belonged originally to
Shakespeare. They belong to one of
the dramatist's descendants, a Mrs.
Fletcher, of Gloucester who has docu-
ments establishing their authenticity.
The following note, dated Novem-
Der 7, 1872, and now first published. is
supposed to have been the last letter
written by Horace Greeley: My Dear
Old Friend-I thank you for your kind
letter. My wife lived too long, for her
last years were years of great, unmiXed
suffering. I profoundly wish it had
pleased God to call both Of us away
years ago."
Alexander Sutherland, Of Denver
''bugler of Balaklava"-the trumpcter
who sounded the charge that led the
Light Brigade up to the mouths of the
murderous cannon. Sutherland is an
erect and wcll-preserved man Of eighty,
with hair and beard of silvery white
ness. lie tells the story of the terrible
military massacre in a dramatic man.
ner, but with a quivering lip.
Three sons of the great author of
"Pickwick" are still living. Charles
Dickens, his fathers namesake, is ed
itor of All the Year Round, and is
known to American audiences for his
readings from his fathers works. AL
fred Tennyson Dickens is a merchant
in Melbourne, and the youngest mem
Der of the family, Edward Bulwer Lyt-
ton Dickens, is sheep farmer and a
new mem Der of the New South Wales
parliament.