The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-05-31
PERSONAL AND LITERARY !.

When Theodore Parker visited Car
lyle in 1S4S he found the two brothers,
ihomas and John, drinking hetwhisky
punch together. Carlyle praised the
young poet Tennyson to the American,
defending him from the reproach OF
ttaintiness and shouting out: "Ow, he
of us!''
Mrs Potter Palmer, of Chicago, has
penchant for Mexican and duchesse
iaces She probably owns one OF the
finest assortmcnts Of these delicate en-
broideries in the world. Mrs. Isaac
Catlin, the wife OF the general, has q
special charity fad. She loves to dis
pense clothing and food to she needy
youth of Brooklyn.
George Meredith rcjoices ina profu-
sion Of hair which falls in artistic neg
ligee round HIS Observation-Disclosures
face. and he looks younger than his
years, which are sixty-two. Oscar
Wilde had described his style as .'chaos
illumined by brilliant flashes of light
ming" and, save by the inner cult. no
one really cares for his books.
Most of the droll stories attributed
to Abraham Lincoln are supposed to be
apocryphal, but Robert Bonner makes
public a letter he received years ago
from Henry Ward Beechcr, in which
Che Plymouth pastor says concerning
visit to Lincoln: abraham told ne
three stories, two of which ] forget
and the other won't bear telling"
Miss Elizabeth Bullock, who died
in Salem, Mass. recently, at the age OF
seventy-seven, had not LETT her house
for more than forty years. Miss Bull
lock was engaged TO be married to a
young man of Salem. Just before the
marriage was to take place the young
man broke the engagement and dc-
parted for the wc csv, RMS ros n,ouo
than f9rtg yeaas ago. Miss Bullock
aeciared She would never leave her
nome again alive, and kept her word.
MIR. Gladstone since his retirement
has received many hundreds of tr;bntas
from admirers oil over the United
Kingdom, and the gifts are still pour
ing IN. he has received several dozen
walking canes and umbrellas. A mum.
Der OF admirers dubbed together and
sent him handsome armchair. and
many more pretentious presents have
come to him. The tributes have been
entirely spontaneous nc suggestion OF
such thing having beer, made in the
newspapers unite their number became
notable,
-Grenyille S. Redmond, of San
francisco, has just taken second ranl,
81 the lannon's Julian, academy of arts, |
~ Paris, Redmond, who is only TWEEN |
Sy-tWo years of age, is q deaf-mute, and !
ms career has already been remark
able one. In 1879 ne became an in
mate of the institution for the deaf |
dumb and blind at Berkeley. Cal. He
At once showed phenomenal ability az
an artist, and during the last three
years be has been q student at the art
school in San Francisco, his expenses
being borne by the Berkeley institu-
tion.
"A friend Of the late r. nj. Ballan.
lyme, the well-known author of bows
BOOKS OF adventure, says he always got /
material from first hands His first !,
story, The Young Fur Traders" he 4
wrote after spending six years in the |
of North America. Hef,
vent to Algiers and wrote 1.-THE psrete \
;ity;" he spent q couple OF weeks on I
me North sea with the deep sea fisher
nen, and wrote 1.-THE Young Traw-
err" he sat up for a fortnight or sol
With the London tireaen, and went ont :
n costume to fire almost every night. (,
nd then produced Lighting the
flames" and "I.ife in the Red Brig :
de- Again, Ballantyne lived a couple :
weeks in the Bell Rock lighthouse, T.
nd the result was '"rhe Lighthouse;"R y
e spent 4 similar period ON the light a
nip off the Goodwin Sands, and wrote .
The Floating Light:" and he went {
own the deepest Of the tin mines, and
he sequel was Deep Down; A Tale oil
lie Cornish Mines" ~