The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-05-19
PERSONAL AND LITERARY,

The autographs of nearly all the
English kings from Henry vi. Q45O) 70
George H., and the kings and queens
Of England since the second George, are
contained in the remarkable collection
of J. Pierpont Morgan, the banker.
Mrs. John Sherwood, the popular
writer on etiquette, delightful parlor
reader and society leader, is said to he
past seventy. Although suffering much
from rheumatism and forced by re.
verses OF fortune to support herself and
invalid husband, she is always cheerful,
gracious and entertaining.
DIR. Edward Everett Hale was asked
the secret of keeping young at the age
of seventy, and this was his reply:
"First, never do anything yourself
which you can get another to do for
you; second, never trouble yourself as
to who will get the credit for what is
done; third, never work after three
o'clock in the afternoon; fourth, sleep
ten hours out of every twenty-four
The Baroness Won Barnekow, of San
Francisco, was until recently known as
Ida Green, but the decision of the court
in Berlin recently gave to this sixteen
year-old girl the title and accumulated
wealth OF the late Baron Won BafnekOw.
She has bought for herself a $4,000
home, and there she will live for the
next two years, after which she expects
to visit her noble relations in Germany.
A curious book, in which the text
is neither written nor printed, but
woven, has lately been published at
Lyons. 1t is made of silk, and was pub
lished in twenty-five parts. Each part
consists of two leaves so that the entire
volume only contains fifty leaves, in
scribed with the service of the mass and
several prayers. Both the letters and
the border are in black silk on white
background.
Mrs. Garner, the wife of r. L. Gar
ner, aids her husband in the expert
ments he is making to learn whether
animals have language. He makes
valuable use of the monograph, and he
said the other evening, without APP
parent computations of conscience, that
he had nearly exhausted his wife's
lungs in getting her to laugh into the
instrument SO that he might compare
the sounds with those produced by the
monkey.
The king of Italy has perfect
fancy for attending fires. The other
evening he was due at the German
embassy, where Count Solms gave
ball Her majesty, Queen Margaret,
radiant in a toilet of pale yellow silk,
and dazzling with superb diamonds,
came alone, and stated that his MAJ
esty the king had gone to fire which
had broken out at a manufactOry of
macaroni and Italian paste, and he re-
manned at the scene until the flames
were subdued.
George Eliot has created a kind of
novel in which she will have no success
sor, because we shall never see again
the qualities of the thinker so com ined
with those of the artist. Here is the
novel of moral analysis. There is her
speciality, there her triumph. Story,
description, reflection, dialogue-all in
her writings-is auxiliary to the paint
ing of the secret movements of the
mind. to the study of the human con-
science; while the minutcness of her
observation never hurts either the Wig
orous realism of her writings, the per-
sonality of her creations or the passion
ate interest of her drama.-Emund
Sherer.