Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1890 — Personal Brevities. [ARTICLE]

Personal Brevities.

Mbs. Kobneb, of Paradise, Pa., has given birth to her fifteenth child. AH her olive branches are alive, so that one corner in Paradise is well peopled. Ben Butleb lectured Saturday night in Boston on “Wendell Phillips,” and took occasion to announce that this would be probably his last appearanoe upon the lecture platform. Miss Bbaddon, the English novelist, who In private life is Mrs. Maxwell, is described as a tali, dark, earnest-looking woman, with peaked features and a complexion indicating long hours of work. She talks well, dresses expensively, and weaijs costly jewels. Kino Kalakaua’s motto, as blazoned upon the royal coat-of-arms, consists of ! the' following mystic words: “Ma man ke ea oka ika pond,” which, according to the translation given by a returned missionary, means in English: “A straight flush beats three of a kind.” ; Ismail Pasha, the ex-Khedive, whose extravagance ruined Egypt and necessitated his recall, has now applied to the Sultan for $50,000 to enable him to buy furniture for his palace at Stamboul. There is nothing close about Ismail as long .as his friends settle the bills. Audußon, the distinguished naturalist, was buried in Trinity Cemetery, New York, nearly forty years ago, but there is no stone or other thing to mark his grave, and several Now York scientific men have started a movement to raise a fund for a monument over his last resting place. TnsDuke of Marlborough has secured options on large tracts of lands in Alabama and Tennessee, which are supposed to contain coal and iron. He has returned to London with the idea of interesting some of his English friends in a plan to organize a company which is to furnish the capital for the development of these lands, and if need be to furnish the funds to build a city somewhat after the plan of Birmingham. Mrs. Stanley expected to find only shanty cities outside of New York, but is quite changed with what she has seen of the interior. She says: “Nothing can be exaggerated about America. I have already learned to so much admire America and the American.” John McCullough's daughter Virginia is now 15 years old and is developing into a very gifted writer. She is yet at school, tnd is said to have no fancy whatever for the stage. Many of her verse and prose articles hare appeared in print -