Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1878 — PERSONAL AND LITERART. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERART.

--Mr. Bryant frequently speaks in a carressing manner of that young man Whittier,— Rochester Chronicle. —The Chicago Tribune has come to the conclusion that the spelling' of the English language in this country has become perfectly lawless. —Frazer's Magazine acknowledges that Londoners say cawn for corn, pawk for pork, laud for lard, witch for which and weal for wheel. ~ —Manton Marble is living happily in New York, devoting his time mainly to studies in political economy. He says he is glad to got out of journalism, and will never return to It.

—Mr. Redfield says that no man living Is able to write at the rate of a column an hour—the rate prescribed by Mr. Forbes as necessary for a successful war correspondent. —John B. Gough states that in thir-ty-five years he has delivered 7,0,00 speeches, but never faced an audience yet without wishing to go the otherway. He never approaches an audience without feeling a shaking of (the knees and a dryness of the lips. —Mr. Lawrence Barrett says, in the Galaxy, concerning Charlotte Cushman, that to those who were permitted to know her well, there was a sweetness, a gentleness, a soft womanliness about her which the world never suspected, Which, judged her only by her public performances. —The expenses of Stanley's great African journeys, just concluded, have been about $115,000, borne equally by the New York Herald and London Telegraph—more than anj- previous African expedition, private or governmental, and giving, for that matter, more complete and important results than any OthOT." ■■

-Blind Tom, though bis name is Thomas Greene Bethune, never parts it in the middle. So here is one black man whois not a servile imitator of the whites. It would be very easy for Thomas to call himself “T. Greene Bethune,” and even to prefix the trademark of genius, “Prof.,” but he refrains. — Exchange. —This story about the Hon. E. M. Stoughton is from the Arcadian: He was recently introduced to a prominent gentleman of the West, interested in pork-packing, very stout and very wealthy. Said the latter gentleman : “Delighted to meet you, Mr. Stoughton. I have seen you name in print, often enough. I use your bitters myself.” —George Barnard was a highly-re-spected school teacher in Litchfield, Conn. The other day he gave himself up to the police and - confessed that he bad ruined his two. Aunts by forged orders upon savings banks. He had the entire confidence of these two women, who had given him his education. He was sentenced to four years in the Penitentiary. —Mrs. Zelda Seguin, talking the other day of Madame Parepa and her husband, said that at one rehearsal the great prima donna, came in late, and Rosa, who is a strict director, stopped the singers and said: “Euphrosyne, this is a very bad example for you to set the gentlemen and ladies of the company. You must not do that again.” And Parepa obeyed. —The Boston Herald publishes a Springfield letter, which says that, in the event of Mr. Bowles’ death, the editorial control of the Republican will pass into the keeping of three young men, now employed on the staff. The property will still be owned by the Bowles faipily, and Samuel Bowles, Jr:, will be the publisher, but the young editors will have a share of the profits.