Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1890 — People You Read About. [ARTICLE]

People You Read About.

Mr.'Stanley has recently become a member of the English Society for ' Psychical ResearchMinister Reid expends $37,000 per annum for his living in Paris, which is SIO,OOO more than his total salary. Chief Justice Fuller is growing fat, following the illustrious example of his associates on the Supreme. Bench, Queen Victoria will make another visit to Florence in the spring. She was much fharmed by her stay there last year. Dr. Carl Peters will describe the wanderings of tho German Emin Bey relief expedition, His book will be published in Munich this month. Thomas A. Edison and George Parsons Lathrop are at work together on a scientific novel, in which electricity is to play an important part. Judge Cooley of the Interstate Commerce Commission is delivering a course of lectures before the Yale Law School on the interstate commerce act. Gen. Lew Wallace is writing with elaborate care a story of the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in 1454. He intends it to be as good in its way as “Ben Hur. ” Secretary Tracy has decided upon the names of five new ships of the navy now building. They will be called Cinainnati, Raleigh, Indiana,. Massachusetts, and Oregon.