Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1883 — PERSONAL. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL.

Tupper, the poet, is a spiritualist It is said that Hanlan has made >63,000 is the last six yean by rowing. Ole Bull’s widow is occupying Minlstei Lowell’s residence at Cambridge, Mass. A fakmeb in Vermont is named Haydn Mozart Handel, but carft even play the jewsharp. John M. Cook, head of the “persbpallyconducted” tourist firm, has been decorated with the Medjidieh by the Khedive. Babon Rothschild’s carriage is illuminated by electric light He doesn’t want to have a wheel taken off by a cab or a sleeping policeman. One of the children of Charles Dickens’ sister, the musical Mrs Burnett, was the original of Paul Dombey, who is perhaps the quaintest child in fiction. Edmund Clabence Stedman, the broker critic, has just entered bis CQth year. His hair is silvering, but he walks erect and rapidly, with a powerful stride. The New York Morning Journal says that Senator Beck, of Kentucky, can play the bagpipe, but he prefers to use his wind in discussing the political situation. Jane Grey Bwis»helm is growing very red as to the nose, and, though a strictly temperate person; she is continually subjected to the suspicion of being a gin drinker. 3. L Cobbin, of Cape Town, South Africa, a reporter of twenty-five years’ experience, can report in short-hand accurately in five different languages—Latin, French, Spanish, Italian and English. Miss Isabelle Bewick, youngest and only surviving daughter of Thomas Bewick, the famous wood-engraver, has just died at Gateshead, England, at the age of 93. It is understood that she leaves a rich and valuable collection of her father's works Her eldest sister died three years ago, aged Wk