Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1879 — PROMINENT PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PROMINENT PEOPLE.

James Gordon Bennett is said to have won $130,000 on Parole. Senator Whyte, of Maryland, is six feet in height and weighs 168 pounds. Robert Bonner keeps a special veterinary surgeon, who is paid $1,500 a year. Senator Withers, of Virginia, is five feet ten inches in height and weighs 185 pounds. Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, is six feet one inch in height and weighs 196 pounds. Senator Thurman, of Ohio, is five feet ten and a half inches in height and weighs 200 pounds. Senator Wadleigh, of New Hampshire, is five feet 11 inches in height and weighs 203 pounds. Senator Windom, of Minnesota, is five feet eleven inches in height and weighs 193 pounds. John Habberton, of “Helen’s Babies” fame, is said to be writing a play on New York politics. Mr. Bancroft, the historian, seems very feeble this spring, as he rides about Washington. Senator Wallace, of Pennsylvania, is five feet and three-fourths inches in height and weighs 164 pounds. P. T. Barnum says that a red-hot iron will cool an elephant’s temper quicker than kind words and soft answers. Senator Gordon, of Georgia, owns a sheep-farm in that State containing 40,000 acres. It is managed by his son. George Francis Train resigns a]l claim to the Presidency in 1880, and thus clears up one feature of the contest. Col. John Raymond “Sellers ” has been arrested in Auburn, N. Y., for throwing a spittoon at a hotel-keeper’s head. King Humbert’s physicians have forbidden him to smoke, telling him that it will kill him. But he keeps right on. Representative Newberry, of Michigan, is said to be the wealthiest man in Congress. He had an income last year of $250,000. The Prime Minister of England is Mr. Disraeli, a Hebrew, and the Prime Minister of France is Mr. Waddington, an Englishman. Alexander H. Stephens was so poor when he first commenced the practice of law that he had to live on $6 a month. No wonder he only weighs 96. The royal chap that Queen Victoria has been down to Italy to look at, with a view to finding a mate for her daughter Beatrice, is a cross-eyed and pugnozed brother of King Humbert. President Hayes lately told a friend that his private income is $6,000 a year, and that this, along with his Presidon tial salary of $50,000, is regularly expended in “keeping up things” about the White House. Mr. A. A. Bonner, the eldest son of Mr. Robert Bonner, the editor of the Ledger, is about to wed Miss Jeanette Fitch, the daughter of a prominent Indiana lawyer. The marriage will take place in Cincinnati. Mark Twain is in Paris writing another funny book, while living in strict retirement. Oliver Wendell Holmes once declared that he didn’t dare to write as funny as he could, but Mark Twain is said to be doing his best this time. “I am not,” wrote Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the other day, “ in a condition to make visits or to take any part in conversation. Old age has rushed upon me in the last year and tied my tongue, and hid my memory, and thus made it a duty to stay at home.”