Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1883 — PERSONAL. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL.

The Princess of Wales is becoming deaf. The best aurist doctors are unable to suggest a remedy. A recent work of Mr. Bret Harte is now being published in a Russian translation as feuilleton in the St. Petersburg Gazette. The health of Herbert Spencer is improving. He has resumed work, and nearly completed the third volume of his work on sociology. Zola’s works have never been translated Iu England, consequently there is a large demand arising for the American editions of them. An official high up in the railway world wrote to Charles Wyndam for his autograph. The comedian sent back this epigraph: “Railways in their way are autocrats. They teach every man to know his own station and to stop there.” Madame Waddington, wife of the French Minister in London, is the daughter of the late Charles King, President of Columbia college, and a granddaughter of Bufus King, one of the framers of the constitution of the United States and afterward American Minister at London. Gen. Robert E. Lee is to have a statue in New Orleans. The main piece of the statue —the upper part of the torso from the neck to the waist—was cast in New York. The bronze that formed the casting weighed about 1,200 pounds. The total weight of the statue will be about 4,000 pounds. The Queen has given a strong proof that she holds Prince Albert Victor in the highest favor by investing him with the ribbon and Insignia of the Order of the Garter while he is yet a minor; for it ft rare indeed to hear of a knight of this “most ancient, noble and honorable order” who is not of full age. Faith cures are becoming popular to manipulators of the exchange department