Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1883 — GENERAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NOTES.

Thoreau, says a writer in the Independent, had a contempt for the religious; and he thought the D. D.’s of small importance beside the chickadeedees. It is rumored that Charles Reade, the famous English novelist., is engaged in writing a series of lives at the patriarchs of scripture. Lord Ronald Gower in his book says that Disraeli had an impassive face, and‘Roden Noel says that it was like a mask. The Rev. M. Newman Hall still hopes to visit the United Staten