The Redwood gazette., 1891-10-08
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Hon. Harvey Rice, father of the
Ohio common school system, is now
ninety-one years of age, and is living
quietly in Cleveland, where he still
spends an hour daily with his pen.
--Sardou's first comedy was failure.
He was youth of twenty-three when
he made his first venture into a field in
which he afterward became famous,
and was at that time q teacher of mathe.
matics.
Nature has done so much to make
the actor Boyd look like Denman
Thompson that when the former played
the latter's role in '"The Old Home
stead" Thompson's own daughter could
not tell the difference.
The grave of Barbara Freitchie in
the German Reformed church cemetery,
near Frederick, Nd, is marked simply
with headstone bearing her name.
age and "1S62." There is tangle OF
briers and creeping vines running wild
over the mound
In Oscar Wilde's house the draw
ing room has etchings inserted into the
walls. The hangings and furnishings
of the room are gray green, cushions of
this color being piled upon the old
fashioned, high-backed settees, which
are, in turn, painted white.
Nathaniel G. Herreshoff, the de-
signer of the Gloriana, comes of an old
Rhode Island family, whose members
have all become famous in science, m,l-
sic or art. The designer himself is a
handsome man of forty-three, with a
fine face and big yellow beard. He pos
sesses the proverbial modesty of genius.
DIR. Furness (of whom all Ameri-
cans have a right to be proud) has late
ly been reckoning the number of lines
in Shalspeare's comedies which are too
obscure to be explained or interpreted.
81 have wasted the time," he says, ''to
count roughly the lines which go to
make up the comedies. There are over
SO, 900.
Mrs. Julia C. R. Dorr looks less like
a poetess than like a stately English
gentlewoman. She is large and impos
ing in appearance, and has calm, dig
nified manner that would discourage
any attempt at familiarity. She has a
charming home near Rutland, Vt, a
house full of books and rare bric-a.
brac, set in grove of fine trees, where
she lives with her married son.
Not only was the late Comtesse de
Chambrun great patron CT music and
art, but her husband, wko has been
blind for the last five years, is also. To
this taste and enterprise it was in a
large measure due that their home in
Paris formerly the palace Of the Prin.
cesse Louise de Bourbon, the sister of
the Prince de Conde) was so long the
resort of all the literary and artistic
celebrities at the French capital.
"A book has appeared in London
which constitutes one of the greatest
curiosities of modern printing. In it is
included the Pater noster, translated into
three hundred Languages, and printed
with the typographical characters COM
mon to those languages. Among the
idioms represented are the gao, the Ian
guage of those living near the tributa-
ries of Lake Nyanza, and raneitenniese,
spoken by the inhabitants of the New
Hebrides.
President George f. Robert of the
Pennsylvania railroad began as rod
man. In time he became assistant to
the president, an office in the elaborate
organization of the company which
generally graduated it's incumbent into
the presidency itself. The present as
sistant is William A. Patton, who is
still young man, and has grown from
years of intimate association to resem-
BILE his chief facially as well as ir
method.