Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1879 — PROMINENT PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Adeline Patti is worth $3,000,000. Minister White will soon start for Berlin. Tennyson gets sls a line for his poetry. Joaquin Miller is very green and awkward in society. Gen. Burnside is the best-dressed man in the Senate. Minister Lowell is preparing to leave for his American visit. Minister Kasson, of Vienna, will visit his lowa home this summer. Senator Teller, of Colorado, is 6 feet in height and weighs 164 pounds. After a six-weeks’ vacation, Minister Maynard is returning to Constantinople. Gen. Babcock has an orange grove in Florida and a naval office in Baltimore. Senator Sharon, of Nevada, is 5 feet 7 inches in height and weighs 134 pounds. Senator Saulsbury, of Delaware, is 6 feet 3 inches in height and weighs 162 pounds. Senator Saunders, of Nebraska, is 6 feet 2 inches in height and weighs 190 pounds. Senator Sargent, of California, is 5 feet 104 inches in height and weighs 190 pounds.

Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, is 6 feet 1 inch in height and weighs 180 pounds. .The Greeley girls deny that Col. Nicholas Smith is going to squander their money. Senator Rollins, of New Hampshire, is 5 feet 6f inches in height and weighs 138 pounds. Gen. Miles, the Indian fighter, was, at the outbreak of the Rebellion, a hardware clerk in Boston. Senator Beck is tall and large, with black hair and dark eyes, and a somewhat fiery complexion. Mrs. Christiancy, the wife of the Minister to Peru, is ill at the home of her parents in Washington. Vice President Wheeler is in Malone, N. Y., and will not return to Washington during the present session. Senator Hoar is a gray-bearded man, with an earnest face, bright blue eyes, and a complexion of almost infantine freshness. Edward S. Stokes, the slayer of Fisk, has taken up his abode in San Francisco. He is now chief owner of a valuable Nevada mine. The Regents of the State of New York have conferred the honorary degree of LL. D. on Thurlow Weed, the Noster of the State press. Cornelius Vanderbilt, the namesake and favorite grandson of the late Commodore, is President of the Young Men’s Christian Association of New York.

Frederick the Great was the only member of the house of Hohenzollern who ever celebrated the anniversary of a golden wedding, for which the Emperor William is now preparing. Mary Paul, a granddaughter of the famous privateer, John Paul Jones, lately died in Scotland, at the age of 79. Her ancestor’s name was really John Paul—when he entered the privateering business he added the “ Jones.” The Maharajah of Jeypore, having entertained Gen. Grant at dinner, invited him to have a game at billiards. Russell Young mentions as an instance of Grant’s magnanimity that the Indian won, the General playing in an indiscriminate, promiscuous manner, and making some wonderful shots in the way of missing balls he intended to strike. Harrison was 67 when he was sworn as President, and died exactly one month after, April 4, 1841. Taylor was 65 when he was sworn as a President, March 4, 1849, and died in fifteen months, July 9, 1850. William R. King was sworn in as Vice President March 4, 1853, and died on his own plantation in Alabama in a little more than a month afterward, April 7, 1853. Senator Booth, of California, whose bachelorhood has withstood the wiles of women for half a century, has been captured at last, so the Washington gossips say, by a demure little widow, with a sweet young face and prematurelywhite hair, to the doors of whose modest lodging-house fate led the Senator in search of “ rooms to let.” A quiet wedding in early autumn will be the result.