Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1878 — PEOPLE AND THINGS. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Secretary Evarts is 60 years old. Kentucky will reset the old whippingpost Mr. Boss has examined 375 lost Charleys. ' ' ' France is willing to resume diplomatic relations with Mexico. The Chinese nation has just celebrated its 360th centennial, ot 36,000 th New Year. One-half the wire is laid on the great suspension bridge between New York and Brooklyn. It is rumored that the Crown Prince of Austria is soon to wed the Princess Beatrice of England. A tramp was taken in at Westfield, Mass., who boasted that he had been on the road since 1852. Mrs. Margaret Herbert and Mrs. Catherine Tilton, twin-sisters, of New Jersey, have celebrated their 90th birthday. Russian officers consume great quantities of champagne. The generabstaff of the Russian army lately ordered SBO,OOO worth from Paris. In France 95 per cent, of the murders committed are for money; in Spain 98 of every 100 murders are inspired by motives of jealousy or love. The Czar of Russia is not strong, and fears the early approach of death. He will be 60 if he lives until April, an age beyond which no previous Romanoff has lived. King Humbert, of Italy, thinks Ife father ran things a little fast, and has commenced cutting down expenses by selling off 1,000 horses kept in the royal stables.

It is regarded in New York as really quite surprising that James Gordon Bennett, with his extravagant life in Europe, is making his father’s fortune last so long. There are living in Belgium, France, Austria, Italy and America 120 families of the descendants of Rubens, represented by'ss6 persons. Most of them are of noble birth. Wolves in Eastern France are unu-j sually bold this year, and have committed many depredations. An instance is cited m which a courier was driven by them from his regular track. “In this great court that wears the golden epaulets of justice,” said a Cincinnati barrister, “where are the great waves that wash the shore of justice ?” His client was sent down for thirty days. The telephone develops more practical value in England than here. The London Daily News uses it to get reports of debates direct from Parliament, connections being made with the ordinary telegraph wires. . Stanley is a man who is crnei to his most devoted friends. An African native became so fond of him that he begged Stanley as a favor to kill him and eat him, but the hard-hearted explorer peremptorily refused. WINTER. Lastly, came Winter, clothed all In frieze. Chatt’ring his teeth for cold that did him chill; Whilst on his hoary beard his breath did freeze, And the dull drops, that from his purpled bill," As from a limbeck, did adown distil; In his right hand a tipped staff he held, With which his feeble steps he stayed still; For he was faint with cold, and weak with eld; That scarce his loosed limbs be able was to weld, —A'clmund Spenser. Gen. Crook thinks that Sitting Bull will be compelled to come to the'United States in order to hunt the buffaloes necessary for his subsistence; also, that there is no possible way of keeping him from crossing the frontier. There will be always more or less trouble till Sitting Bull is cleaned out. The Prince and Princess of Wales show in many ways most kind hearts. They have provided for Sandringham and the other villages adjoining excellent school-rooms and teachers, and on holidays they give the children treats and serviceable gifts, the Princess and her little niw dieteiinzbiiig me latter wltn their own hands. Col. King’s farm on the Rio Grande consists of 160,000 acres, all fenced. He has been growing in wealth since the war with Mexico, and now owns, besides the land, 22,000 horses, 50,000 cows, 75,000 sheep and 30,000 mules. He employs 300 Mexicans as herders. Most of the land has been fenced at an enormous cost. M. Dugue, a Parisian had nearly $20,000 in gold in his desk, and beside the gold was a sack full of bright new sous that his wife had long been saving up, in accordance with the superstition that their presence brings luck. It did; for an enterprising burglar, taking the sous for forty franc pieces, carried them off with the next bag, and left $17,000. Fresh flowers are daily planted around the tomb of Napoleon 111., at Chiselhurst, by direction of his widow, Eugenie. It is next in order to transfer his ashes from the island of England to the banks of the Seine, to be buried among the people who were dearest to him when alive. The Hotel des Invalides is waiting to receive the nephew of his uncle. Mr. James F. Downey, editor of the Louisiana (Mo.) Journal, having been assaulted by Aiderman W. W. Anderson, publishes a card containing the following business-like proposition : “ I will meet him anywhere his friend and my friend may select, lx»th to be unarmed, and if I don’t thrash him inside of five minutes I will make a public apology and admit lam no man. I am in no condition to struggle with a man, but I am strong enough to whip a hypocrite and a coward.”