The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-05-12
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

MIR. N. r. O'Conor, the new British
minister to Pekin, was secretary Of le-
cation at Washington between the years
1885 and 1887. Since that time he has
been consul-general in Bulgaria. His
promotion means an increase of salary
from SIC, 200 to s27, 500.
The late Baron de Loe, the diplo.
mat, was renowned as much for the
beauty of his wife as for anything else.
The baroness was a French woman of
surprising good looks. When young
woman she made conquest of Bismarck
at the casino of Biarritz.
When Grant Allen in his story of
1.-THE Devils Die" descl bed his heroes
as finding wreck in miiocean swarm
ing with rats, the critics said it could
not be. The wreckers who went aboard
the Gottenburg castle, off St. Marys
isle, recently. had just that experience.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cakes, one of the
most prolific writer's in this country be-
fore the war, who was married at the
age of sixteen to Seba Smith (author of
the once noted Jack Downing" letters.
is living in Hollywood, N. c., and is still
contributor to one of the literary
weeklies. She is eighty-four years of
age.
The duke of Clarence was an ardent
admirer of Gladstone. On one occasion
at the house of commons, when the ven
cradle premier introduced his home-rule
bill, ALDER Victor was so carried away
by the eloquence of the great orator
that he clapped his hands heartily,
which was particularly noticed as the
etiquette of the house forbids such an
outburst of enthusiasm.
An acquaintance of Oscar Wilde re-
lates the following incident which &C.
wonderfully good memory when other
peoples jokes are concerned. One day
when Whistler made one of his excru-
ciatingly funny remarks Oscar MUIR
INJURED: "Ah! how good! l wish l had
said that And Whistler replied: you
will say it, Oscar! You will.'
The amount of money earned by
DR.. Morell Mackenzie during his thirty
years of practice must have been very
large. Within few years of his COM
mencing practice lin 1862 he was max
ing S25, 900 a year, and his income rapid
ly incre ased as his reputation spread
till about 1873 hp touched high-water
mark W it'll ''takings' of $50, 900 to $40, 900
year an enormous figure for a practice
the bulk Of which consisted of guinea
fees.
-Th, Jewish scholar, NJ. Halevy, has
compiled from the cuneiform tablets dis
covered at Ell Amura an account of ,n
Egyptian governor of Jerusalem under
AmenCphis w.. 1900 years before the
Christi IN era. 1t that time Palestine
was in a very disturbed state, overrun
by the Babylon:an hordes and misgov-
erned by the local satraps. At this
early period Jerusalem was pop
ulous city. and contained a temple con-
secrated to the god, Adar. The bureau
of the royal arch;7es was under the di-
rection of a woman.
i he reporter on the Morning Ad-
vertiser Of New York. Frederick j
Hamilton. who accompanied DR.. Cyrus
Edsc n on his rounds among the typus
patients and contracted the fever, has
died He exonerated his employers
from. all blame in the matter, stating
that it was his zeal in his profession
that caused hin to take the risk A
few years ago. in order to investigate
the Pasteur treatment, he was inocu-
lated with tho rabies germ and spent
two months Under treatment in the
hospital almost dying with hydro
phobia.