The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-16
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

President Nunez of Columbia, it is
announced, has declared his intention
of being present at the ceremonies dedi-
catory of the Columbian exposition
buildings next October. Sir Julian
Pauncefote, British minister at Wash
ington, will be present to represent
Great Britain.
Mile Paulina, a native of Queens.
land, Holland, is said to be the smallest
human being in the world. She is
nearly sixteen years of age, her height
is eighteen inches and her weight seven
pounds. Unlike most of the ''midgets,"
she is remarkably pretty and accom-
plished, speaking four languages flu
emily.
M. Goron, chief of the Paris detec-
tive force, wears military mustache,
dresses fashionably, and is generally
seen with a burning cigar between his
fingers. NJ. Goron believes in sitting at
his desk and thinking out mysteries.
He wears his hair in what is technical
ly if flippantly called the foor-walker's
roach.
Don Jose Jesus Pico, noted fig
ure of the early days of California,
who was closely associated with the
''Pattfnder," died recently at San Luis
Obispo. He was once sentenced to
death by Gen. Fremont for melting an
anti-American riot, but was pardoned
and afterward became Fremont's de-
voted friend and associate.
"A newspaper in the Arabic language
was recently started in New York city,
which is the only one in existence out
side of Asia and Africa. The type for
printing Kawka America was imported
from Syria, and the compositors came
from the same country. There are said
to be 1886 characters in the Arabic IAN
guage. One page of the paper is printed
in English.
One of the London newspapers re-
ferred to a touching incident which,
it said, marked the closing days of
the American poet Whittier" The 9TH
err newspapers informed their contem-
porary that the Quaker poets days
have not closed, and that an American
newspaper just received contained
new poem from his pen. TIE editor
had COMPOUNDED Whittier with the late
Walt Whitman.
When Charles Dickens was editor of
the Daily News-his tenure was not for
long-he appointed his father, the
original of Wilkins Micawber, leader of
the News parliamentary corps. In his
new volume on Faces and Places" Mr..
H. w. Lucy, a successful Journalist and
humorist, says: 1.-THE old gentleman,
of course, knew nothing about journal
ism; was onot even capable of short
hand. Providentially he was not re-
quired to take notes, but gener lily to
overlook things. He filled the office
even for shost time after his son had
impetuously vacated the editorial chair"
1t has long been known that john
Strange Winter, who wrote ''Bootles'
Baby" and SO many interesting and
dashing novels of military life-in camp
and barracks-is not man. as the mas
culine name and style would indicate,
but woman, clergyman's daughter,
born in York, England. In 1884 she
married Mr.. Stannard, a civil engineer
She began her literary career by writ
ing stories for the Family Herald under
the pseudonym of Violet Whyte. The
masculine name of John Strange Win
ter was adopted when Cavalry Life
appeared, her reason being that her
military sketches. if avowedly written
by a woman, might not obtain fair
play. Since 'Bootles Baby" appeared
Mrs. Stannard has written about a
dozen books, of which the aggregate
sale in England has amounted to 60O,-
900 copies.