Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1883 — PERSONAL. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL.

The Russian Grand Duke Alexis ■will pass the winter in Paris. The Emperor of Austria weighs 143 pounds, while his wife .tips the scales.at 164. ■ • ->' Miss Cora Bennison, the Quincy (HI.) female lawyer, is making a tour around tH» world. ■ * * - - -mrtHowells, the novelist, parts his hair in the middle, and shrinks from mingling with the human race. Ex-Gov. Kemper, of Virginia, says he has been and is for justice to the negro, but he never saw the day when he would knowingly clothe him with authority over the echools oi the white race. John Carlino was fixing a freight-car of the New Jersey Central road, at Philadelphia, when the train started ahead, and the carwheels run over his breast, leaving the marks of their passage on his manly bosom. that, there lsrrothingthe matter With Mr. Carting, as he *h attending tq| business *as .usual. The car weighed 18,000 pounds. The very latest fashion in dinner-plates is square in shape, beautifully hand painted