Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1879 — PROMINENT PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Jeff Davis is 71 years of age. Senator Bruce is very busy at his study of law. Colfax cleared SIO,OOO by his lectures last year. The top of Gen. Garfield’s head is entirely hairless. Charles A. Dana, of the New York Sun, receives a salary of $12,000. Gen. W. 8. Bosecbans is manufacturing safety powder in San Francisco. Congressmen Weaver and Gillette, of lowa, room together at Washington. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is 5 feet 8 inches in height and weighs 153 pounds. Senator Morrill, of Vermont, is 6 feet 1 inch in height and weighs 196 pounds. Senator Paddock, of Nebraska, is 5 feet 9| inches in height and weighs 182 pounds. Senator Plumb, of Kansas, is 5 feet II inches in height and weighs 171 pounds. Senator McPherson, of New Jersey, is 5 feet 10 inches in height and weighs 170 pounds. Senator Randolph, of New Jersey, is 6 feet 2 inches in height and weighs 185 pounds. Senator Thurman reads more foreign books than any other Senator in Washington. George Bancroft, the historian, continues daily exercise for his health in the open air at Washington. His friends claim that Gen. FitzJohn Porter is vindicated, while his enemies take an opposite stand. Senator Matt Carpenter, who has not been well for some time, contemplates going to Colorado for the benefit of his health. The Kansas City Times says that Gen. James Shields, ex-Senator from Missouri, is very ill of bronchitis at the Sisters’ Hospital in that city. Field Marshal von Manteuffel will be made Governor General of Alsace Lorraine, the idea of nominating a Royal Prince having been abandoned. Sitting Bull has seen Puck’s picture of Senator Bumside, and he is perfectly crazy to get at the man he says “ has a scalp on each side of his face.” Joaquin Miller wears his trousers outside of his boots again, and it is thought that he is contemplating the idea of escaping back to his native wilds. Old Simon Cameron has become a thorough woman-hater. All his transactions with his washerwoman are now conducted through his attorney. He won’t allow a hotel waiter to wear an apron in his presence. Senator Don Cameron has' leased for a term of years the handsome Ohiostone mansion of ex-Gov. Shepherd, on Farragut square, in Washington city. It is probably the most elegant-ly-furnished private house in Washington. Bishop Whittle, of the Episcopal diocese of Virginia, has issued a pastoral letter forbidding the use of flowers in church decorations, even at Easter, and disapproving of evergreens at Christmas. • King Cetywayo is described as a black head-ringed man, resembling his father, the late King Panda, and firm in flesh. He is large, but his body is firm, not flabby, like the bodies of other large men among the Zulus. His favorite attire is a spotted blanket. Prof. David Swing is said to have a telephone leading from his study to the houses of several of his parishioners and intimate friends. He does most of his pastoral visiting by aid of this apparatus. The only care required is to so arrange the switchboard as to send his message always to the party for whom it is intended. Prof. Andrew D. White, our new Minister to Germany, was the second recipient of the DeForest medal at Yale College for combined excellence in writing and elocution. His subject “ The Diplomatic History of Modern Times,” has a suggestive meaning in connection with the position now held by him.