The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-03-31
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Lord Tennyson is a great reader OF
through piles of three-volume gush
which tell Of heroines or of every -day
lovers who struggle through times of
sorrow as a preparatory purgatory 20
being married and living happy ever
afterward.
Sherman Hoar, the young congress
man from Massachusetts,, was the model
selected for the statue of John Harvard.
Mr.. Hoar's face was not copied closely,
but the professors and sculptor decided
that in his features and figure he resem-
bled their ideal of the man whom they
wanted to honor with monument
Emile lola is finishing the last
chapter of his great war novel, LA
Guerre," at Medan, in the beautiful
country house which he has built for
himself. The chateau looks like an en-
larged edition of the modern French
villa, and is composed of white stone
and red brick-a strange combination
specially chosen by the novelist.
Secretary Foster has thin, dark
brown hair. A black guard ribbon is
his nearest approach to ornament. He
wears shoes like a school teacher; all
his dress is plain. He is tactical, wary.
but not cold or dry. His salutation
sets the caller at ease. His face is
shrewd, but not severe, kind but no.
where weak. The eyes observe, the
jaw takes care of the will.
-Boulanger's patroness, the Duchess
dues, in the courts of the department
of the Seine, has. had a guardian ap.
pointed for her spendthrift son Jacques
Marie Geraud de Crussol d'Uzes. Duke
dues. Since he became of age, on
November 10, 1889, he has contracted
an immediate indebtedness amounting
to 500, 900, has induced his mother to
take up 5000 worth Of his notes, and
has mortgaged his estates for $500, 900.
One who once set type in great
English establishment remembers for
the benefit of the Writer the time when
that most fascinating of nonsense
books, "Alice In Wonderland" was put
into metal from young Dodgeson's
manuscript. LAS you saw the writer,
a grave, almost sad-looking young man,
going in and out of Worcester college,
or at the Office about the proof, you
could scarcely think such melancholy.
looking authorship could produce SO
merry book.-N. Y. Tribune.
-Spurgeon sometimes carried dra.
matte action to ludicrous excess in the
pulpit Mr.. Haweis says that once in
the middle of his sermon the preacher
shouted out: whats that thee says,
Paul, 1 can do all things?' I'll bet thee
half crown O. that" So the preacher
took out half crown and put it on the
Bible. However" he continued, 'lets
see what the Apostle has to say for
himself" 50 he read on, through
Christ that strengtheneth me- O."
says he, IF that's the terms of the bet
I'm OFF, and he put the half crown back
into his pocket.
Oliver Wendell Holmes attributes
his good health and remarkable vigor
of mind at eighty-one to the extreme
care he has long taken of himself.
Never robust, he was nevertheless why
in his earlier life, and since he reached
eighty his hygienic vigilance is unceas-
ing. The rooms that he daily occupies
are equipped with barometers, Their
mometers, Brometers and other instru-
ments. the observations Of which may
prevent his mourning the slightest risk
of taking cold. He knows that pneu.
monia is the most formidable foe of old
age, and he is determined to keep it at
distance if possible. He never gets
up during the winter until he knows
the temperature, or takes his bath with
out having the water accurately tested.
He lives by rule, and the rule is inflex.
ible. His time is scrupulously divided
SO much allotted to reading, SO much to
writing, SO much to exercise and sc
much to recreation. His meals are
studies of prudence and digestion.