The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-04-23
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Cie"i "iitoiS, INT CleuI IountaInS,
do not seem as deep as they are, the
turbid look the most profound.
Many books require no thought
from those who read them, and for
very simple reason: They made no
such demand upon those who wrote
them.
Without books God is silent, JUS
tice dormant, natural science at
stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb
and all things involved in Zimmerman
darkness.
1t is said that George Du Maurier,
the author Of "Trilby," is much an
noyed at the ABSURD length to which
the Trilhy fad has been carried in
America.
Miss Braddon. the novelist, has lost
her husband, John Maxwell. lie
was publisher, and thirty-fve years
ago started "Temble Bar"
Oscar Wilde, the aesthetic and wri
ter of plays, has been convicted in
London Of an Infamous CRIME. and
will probably be sentenced to long
term in the peniten,iary.
In a township of Clinton county,
Iowa, is school district that all the
female teachers regard as mascot.
Every girl teacher the district has
had in the last fifteen years has be
come engaged, either during the
school term orjust after The wages
are low, but tine applicants for the
school are numerous.
The coolest place in the west is said
to be the little town of Halleck, ON
the Central Pacific Railway. 1t is
built i'll the very bottom of valley
that extends due north to the Arctic
circle, and railroad men say this val
ley acts AS Al great natural windpipe
which brings the coolest blasts from
the north pole straight down on the
unlucky village.
MIR. Box, the well known literary
worker, gives this list of literary men
and women in America, whose earn
ing, purely from n literary career.
give them 'what is called comfort
able living-a living such as comes Ia
men who are foremost in other pro.
fesSions as are these in liternture:'
Men-Lew Wallace, Marion Craw
ford, William Dean IIowels, Frank
X. Stockton, WIFI Carleton, Mark
Twain, Thomas Wentworth Higgin.
son, Rudyard killing and Hamlin
Garland. Women Francis Hodg.
son Burnett, Amelia l.. Barr, Eliza
beth Stuart Phelps-Ward, Mary f.
Wilkins, and Sarah Orme Jewett.
Hawthorne, Irving and Poe together
never were paid as much as any tire.
of the above named writers, yet they
will be read when many of these arc
forgotten.
The Memorial Monument to Cap
tain Miles Slandish, is ON Captain,
Hal, Duxbury, Mass. The site i.
we'll chosen, as the hill is $50 feet
high, commanding a fine view Of Ply.
mouth and DuXbury harbors, and i.
a part Of the farm given by Captain
Standish to the Plymouth Co!,ny.
There he lived till his death, and the
house erected in 1866 by his son still
stands. The monument is IF massive
blacks of rough granite, and is 1851
feet from the grade to the top of the
statue. The arch of entrance is built
of stones contributed BY the several
New England States, and bears their
names The keystone was presented
by Gen. Grant, and represents the
United States.
The Supreme Court of the United
States was established in in 1889, md
has had iifty-nine Judges. There have
been eight cbiefjnstices: John JAY,
Of New York; Edward Rulledge. Of
South Carolina; Oliver Ellsworth, of
Connecticut; John Marshall, Of
Virginia; Rodger Brooke fancy. Of
| Maryland; before the close of the Civ.