Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1886 — International Fame. [ARTICLE]

International Fame.

In competition for the laurels of in=> ternational fame the pen, or its ally, the printing-press, has become decidedly mightier than the sword. If we had to guess at the name of the widestknown citizen of the United States we should not lose our time among the W’s and G’s. In Roumanian villages, in Tyrolese dairy hamlets, in poor Milesian weaver towns, where the name of U. S. Grant has never been pronounced by human tongne, and where even the sage who divides his time between scuttle-mending and school-teaching has only a vague idea that General Washington was a doughty rebel, who somewhere or other gave the English a deal of trouble in his time, the anti) or of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” would he welcomed as an old acquaintance. In Livonian moo land settlements, where the rumors of war come only through the medium of censor-sifted Russian weeklies, blear-eyed spinsters have shed mere tears over the truculence of Squire Legree than over the smoke of their own turf-fire, and are ready to invoke all the saints of their family almanac to attest the veracity of the Lady Byron scandal —for the worship of one idolized book hallows all its successors. — Prof. Oswald.

Marriage in Scandinavia in old times oould take place without clergy, but divorce required a religious rite. The wife could demand this if the husband wasted the common property. Thehusband was absolute master of the property of his wife, even of her dower, but if they were separated, lie must restore all that belonged to her, and from one-third to one-half of their common acquisitions. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe realizes that her cup of literary distinction is full and running over, and has announced that she will write no more for publication. Cavour, the Italian statesman, was really a German, they say. “Gott will Reed" vaa his