The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25
PERSONAL AND LITERARY,

Capt. w. H. P. Hams Of the steam
ship Etruria has just completed his
501st voyage across the Atlantic. lie
first went to sea as an apprentice in
1888, and got his first command of o
Cunard steamer in 1864. 49,.
John Stephenson, who built the
first American horse-car, is more than
eighty years. old, but still vigorous and
energetic. His mind is yet busy with in
ventions, and he can accomplish as
much work in day as a man many
years his Junior.
Hundreds of strangers apply for
permits to 60 through the Edison lab
oratory at Orange and many seek in
tcrviews with the great electrician.
Very few have their wishes gratifed
A notice is posted in the little Office at
the entrance to the effect that Mr. Edi-
son is alwayAexceedingly busy and can
see no one, All callers are referred to
Mr.. Tate, his business manager, and
permits to inspect the works are almost
; invariably refused.
While Queen Victoria was in west
crn France returning from Grasse, re-
Gently, telegram awaited her at one
of the stations where halt was made.
The postmistress refused to give it into
anybody's hands but the righful recip-
lent, and all the diplomacy of the royal
train was put in action to induce this
jealous functionary to waive rules and
,, regulations In favor of the queen of
England. Madame only yielded to the
, pressing solicitations of Gen. Ponsonby
and a secretary of the British embassy.
The editor of one of the leading
magazines says in Current Literature:
eve print twelve mum bers in each year.
In each number we print on an average
say twelve or fifteen articles. Suppose
we say that in the course of a year we
print 100 articles or SO. Now, how
many manuscripts do you suppose are
, offered us in the course of year?
Something over 1000. If we chose to
make up the entire magazine from
years beginning to years end out of
the voluntary contributions, we should
still perforce have to reject about $500
or 5000 articles
james Whitcomb Riley, having
been asked what he did to warm up an
| irresponsible audience when he was
lecturing, answered: 81 do not try.
You know l am near-sighted, and with
| out my glasses I'm not worth straw.
Well, when l see l have a cold and
critical audience, I just take off my
glasses and lay them in the desk. Then
the house may be just as uneasy as it
! likes, for l can't see thing. The
whole house might get up and leave
and I'd never know it. 1t doesn't pay
for an audience of mine to be cold, for
l let them do all the freezing.
edward Egglcston, the author"
says Harper's Weekly, ''resides away
up in northwestern Vermont, in the
midst Of the primeval woodland, and
far removed from any railway, in a
rambling old homestead rejoicing in
the quaint designation of Owls Nest.
His versatility is as amazing as his
energy is unbounded. He has been a
! preacher. poet a journalist, a novel
! list. and is now historian. For sew
eral years past new tales from Mr..
Eggleston have been as scarce as
angels visits, the reason being that the
popular novelist, in a heroic moment
ret aside the better portion of a decade
IN order to write a History of Life in
the Thirteen Colonies"