The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-09
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

S. H. H. Clark, the new president
Of the Union Pacific railroad, began life
As brakeman on gravel train. He is
said to be particularly popular with the
railroad labor organizations, and no
trouble ever arose from those sources
after he became manager of Gould's
Missouri Pacific system.
AT the time when ne made his will
King George had no proprietorship over
the money which he bequeathed away.
It had been confscated by the Prussian
government, and was only to be restored
to him on certain conditions, which he
declined to fulfill. Consequently, when
he died his will became of no effect.
-Roweny in Boston, by Maria Louise
Pool, is winning appreciation abroad.
A Kentucky lady residing in Cassel.
Germany, says, in a letter recently re-
ceived by New York friend: Before
l knew who the author was I thought
OF Howell; but one touch convinced me
that she was woman, where she spoke
of the damp taking the crimp out Of
her hair"
The fortieth anniversary of the
publica ton of Uncle Toms Cabin has
brought out several facts concerning it.
The original of George Harris is still
living, and it was from his lips that
Mrs. Stowe obtained the germ of her
story Tee book has been translated
into dozen languages, dramatized in
twenty forms, and acted in nearly every
city in the world.
Walt Whitman's sobriquet was con.
ferred upon him some time after the
war. When he returned from the bat
tle-felds of Virginia he received an ap-
pointment as clerk in the interior de.
partment at Washington, from which
he was deposed in 1866 by stupid su.
perior who did not approve of his
poetry. w. D. O'Connor's pamphlet in
denunciation of this absurd act was en-.
titled ''The Good Gray Poet" name
that clung to the old man ever after
ward, and which will live as long as
that by which he was christened when
an infant.
The new club book of the Century
association shows, among other things,
that it possesses property valued al
nearly $500, 600, and that it's annual in.
come is nearly $4,000. The Century
now has nearly $50 members. The list
of members deceased has reached $50.
Last years neurology includes George
Bancroft, Lawrence Barrett, DR.. For.
dyce Barker, Robert J. Livingstone,
Henry S. Sanford, Jervis McEntee, Jacob
D. Vermilye, and Alfred Roosevelt. The
book contains Carmen Centuriale,"
Latin poem by A. r. McDonough, and
''Centuria," song in English writer
for Twelfth Night by Edmund Clarence
Stedman.
Louis kossuth. who is living il
Turin, is ninety years old. Several o.
his fellow-countrymen visited him re
Gently. They found him not only ir
good health, but taking keen interest
in everything going on in Hungary.
Kossuth complained Of weakened eye
sight, but his voice was as sonorous and
powerful as in the distant years when
his eloquence charmed his hearers in
England and America. When the sub
ject Of his return to his native country
was mentioned by one of his visitors,
he burst into tears. To the same guest
who on taking leave wished that he
might enjoy good health and pro
longed life, he replied: ~ thank yor
for the first wish; but to desire me x
live very much longer is hardly kind
ness