Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-09-26
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Walter Blackburn Harte, some
time editor of the now defunct Knight
Errant, and Harvey M Watts, Talcott
Williams literary assistant on the
Philadelphia Press, are Mr.. Lewis as
sistants in the editorial work on
Moods.
The widow of Jim Fisk is living
to-day in humble frame tenement
house in Boston on an income of $50 a
month, which is not from her hus-
bands estate. Fisk was worth s., OO0,-
600 when killed by Stokes, but it has
all vanished.
Lily Langtry, when it came to the
decisive point, hesitated whether to go
on the stage or try market-gardening.
She owned famous garden in Jersey
Lane, and was fond of it. When in
England she stays as much Jas possible
ut her racing-stable farm at Newman
ket.
Not long ago the two-year-old
child of Berlin day laborer died Of
starvation. The frenzied father, to
save his darling from the potter's field,
took the body in his arms and went
begging wherewith to give it decent
burial. He was arrested as a mendi-
cant. according to law, they said.
The danger that besets the novel;
ist who attempts to write plays is IL
Illustrated by Mr.. Zangwill in an anec-
dote of an actress who played in an
unsuccessful comedy by distinguished
man of letters. One of her stage direc-
tions, she said, ran thus: "Re-enter
Mary, having drunk cup of tea"
Mr. William Morris makes high art
pay. if we may accept the calculations
of the British Printer. One of the
latest publications of the Kelmscott
press is an edition of Chaucer, Of
which only 425 copies were printed on
paper and seven on vellum. Every
one of these has been sold, over $42,-
900 being realized for the ordinary
copies and nearly SIS, 900 for the vellum
impressions. a 1
Joe" Chamberlain is lithe-buil
man of incisive manner, with clean.
cut, smooth-shaven face, and looks
quite two decades younger than his
years, which are threescore-so much
that he is often taken for his son. He
won his first spurs as mayor of Bir-
mingham, where he served long and
very useful municipal apprenticeship.
He is quite wealthy, having amassed a
large fortune in the screw trade. He
is popularity known as "Brummagam
joe"
Joseph Thomson, the young Afri-
can explorer who recently died at
thirty-six, was the only man who pene-
trated into the interior from all four
sides. From Morocco on the north he
explored Mount Atlas, from the west
he went up the Niger, from the cape
he reached the great lakes and the
spot where Livingstone died, and from
the east he travelled through the Nasal
country to the lakes. In all his expe-
ditions he never found it necessary to
use a revolver or rifle against hui
man being.
William Morris is almost the only
one left of the original pre- Raphaelites.
He is now in his sixty-irst year. His
poems are less widely known than his
relations to textile manufactures, glass
and bookmaking. A reflection in some
measure of the type of which Leonardo
da Vinci and Michael Angelo are still
higher exemplars, his sense of beauty
| has been carried into everything hand
or pen has touched. His twin muses.,
the one of literature, the other of prac-
teal arts, have worked in happy sister
hood for more than generation