Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1883 — PERSONAL GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL GOSSIP.

The youngest editor in the world is 11 years of age, and he publishes the Acotn. Just after a Massachusetts ballconer had tied his baloon to a tree the wind tore the tree up by the roots. Bismarck has changed his doctors of tewof late, and his last attack is attributed to unsuccessful treatment by a new hand. Blue, Green and Gray are the names of three merchants doing business in the Bowery, New York, within a block of each other. Congressman Brettung, of Michigan, has thus far had no postofflee quarrels to settle His interest in iron mines in . the Upper Peninsula are valued at 17,000,000. Mr. Guthrie— otherwise F. Anstey—the author of the successful book, “Vice Versa,* is the son of a London tailor, and is not yet 26 years oldMr. Moody’s Northfield Seminary has been promised ♦•’.0,000 by a Boston man on condition that the mends of the school will raise a similar amount Several scholarships of <3,000 have recently been forwarded. The characters in Disraeli’s novel, “Lothair,” are to be plentiful in America this year. M Capel, the Papist, is coming over to lecture, and the heroine of the book, Lady Landsdowne, is the wife of the new Governor-General of Canada The engagement of the daughter of Gen. Frost, of St Louis, to the son of Beresford Hope, the well-known English M. P., is announced When this shall nave been accomplished another American woman will have joined the numerous throng of women from this side of the water who have gone over to ‘preside for life over English householda • Ex-Senator Simon Cameron takes great interest in fish culture. He has a trout stream, whose mot-led denizens leap out of the water to catch bits of bread which he throws to them. He has just purchased the abandoned Stite fish-hatchery at Donegal, Pa., and is about to stock a large pond with various kinds of fish. He also devotes much attention to his farm, and has in a single field 100 acres of timothy, from which ne expects to cut nearly 800 tons of hay.