The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-01-08
PERSONAL AND'1xERARx

"A sister-in-law OF one of the best
known and distinguished members Of
Parliament keeps fashionable lodging
house in London, where in the season a
majority of the patrons are Americans.
Among the unpublished Thackeray
manuscri pts now offered for sale in
London are notebook containing
1900 fragments of unpublished verses, a
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
Llanbysilio Wales, when he spent the
autumn Of 1886 at that place, has had
memorial tablet put on the church with
the inscriptions: I'm memory of Robert
Browning, poet, born 1912, died 1889,
who worshiped in this church ten weeks
in autumn, 1886. by his friend Helen
Faucit Martin"
-Jo Howard says of Henry Ward
Beecher: II have seen him hundreds OF
times take his letters from the post.of
fee, open them as he walked along the
street, continue opening them in houses
where he called, and, in other words,
attend to his own business. That Mrs.
Beecher opened some of his letters Is
quite likely, but to say thati: was the
regular procedure, she de etermining what
to answer and what to throw away, is
simply silly"
"A selection from the correspondence
of the late Queen Elizabeth Of Prussia,
wife of King Frederick William w., is
to be published toward the end of next
year. 1t will be edited by Empress
Frederick A large collection of the ac-
complished Queens letters was made by
Emperor Frederick, who intended to
publish mum Der of them. He had also
| proposed to write a 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 hurriedly 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 it, or all Mr.. Stevenson's literary
notes for many months past, including
| the greater part of story boing writ
| ten under 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. n Y, recently.
an aged deacon who sat near him on the
platform kept inter icc ting audible and
fervent "Amens' and Goods "a man
with principle is a man to be admired
above many Others" roared out Mr..
Moody. That's true, " mum bled out the
deacon in tones of rapture. The evan
gelist turned around instanter and
shouted in his mellow voice: True, Of
course it's true. What do you suppose
I'm telling here tonight, lies?" The
poor little deacon subsided.
DR. Holmes tells in the Atlantic
that he has Just cleared the eight
barred gate" and taken a 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 90 out
of flower as gracefully. as pleasingly,
as we come into blossom! l always
think of the morning glory as the love-
liest example of graceful yielding to
the inevitab BILE. 1t is beautiful before
its twisted corolla opens; it is comely
as it folds its petals inward, when its
brief hours of perfection are over"