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

PERSONAL.

Dom Pedro, of Brazil, wears white silk and white satin when he sits on his throne, a necklace of immense diamonds and emeralds, and a rich lace cravat A ninety-year-old Pennsylvanian, who never smoked, never drank, never fell i n love, and never went out of his native town, has just started on his first journey. He went in a hearse. Olive Logan has discovered a Scotch girl to whom the Prince of Wales sent a nosegay, which terrified her parents to such a degree that the Caledonian lamb was promptly shipped to the North of Tweed. Richard Henry Stoddard has set his son to learning the publishing business One poet m the family is enough. In the Stoddard fsmily there are two, Mrs. Stoddard being very felicitous in the use of blank verse. Gen. Sherman’s idea of Washington recalls one of Horace Greeley’s letters: “There is so much villainy going on in this place,” he wrote in 1850, “that I am almrst afraid to look in the glass lest I shall see the face of a rogue. ” Richard Rowley, the hero, who, in the memorable fight of the Kearsarge with the Alabama, p eked up a 100-pound she 1 from the Kearsage’s deck, while the fuse was burning, and threw it overboard, was up before the Bangor Municipal Court last week on a charge of drunkenness.