Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1891 — Brief Personal Items. [ARTICLE]

Brief Personal Items.

Jules Verne is now a handsome man of 60, with head and beard quite gray, and with eyes which sparkle with all the fire of 20. Queen Victoria has made known through Cardinal Manning that she will present no objection to the canonisation of Joan of Arc. The Countess of Caithness, loader of the Theosophists cf Paris, belioves herself to be tho “spiritual child" of Mary Queen of Scots. It is on this account that she is about to sot np a statue of Mary in the Place Wagram.