Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1883 — PEOPLE AND THINGS. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The Prince of Wales is an expert boxer and is fond of the gloves. Joel Chandler Harris. “Uncle Remus,” has red hair and blue eyes. Germany boasts of 956 poetesses and authoresses on the roll of^ame. Gen. W. H. F. Lee, Robert E. Lee’s eldest son', has been fanning in Virginia ever singe the war. Gov. Cleveland, of New York, wears black alpaca coats and wide-brimmed straw hats in summer. James Russell Lowell inherits inflammatory rheumatism from his father, the Rsv. Charles Lowell. He was fond of singing revival hymns, and bis wife named the baby Fort, so that he would want to hold it Gen. Spinner, whose name is to be seen on so many greenbacks, has left Florida for Boston. He will remain in the North until November. An Illinois man boxed his wife’s ears for in a lottery ticket. She went to her father's homeland her ticket soon rtf ter drew #s,Coft A Tallahesseb lady of uncommon nerve appeared at an evening party recently, wearing live spiders, chameleons, beetles and fire-flies in her hair and on her dress. The only representatives of Edmund Burke’s family are found now in the Frenches, of Loughrea, County, Galway. Burke was essentially of Celtic stock. His mother was a Roman Catholic lady, by name Magee, but his father was Pro- ; test ant He had fwo sons besides Edmund, ftnd daughter, Mrs, French. 1