Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1891 — PEOPLE OF NOT [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE OF NOT

The richest banker in the world is Baron Bleichroder, of Berln. Rudyarp Kipling wears a scarlet sex and eyeglasses in his sanctum, f M. Alphonse Daudet is now quite recovered from his recent illness, and Is busily engaged on a new novel. Gen. Butler is fond of good dining, and is himself an accomplished cook. The Duke of Portland is 33 jrears oM and one of the fattest m*ll in tfe United Kingdom. Hale Jenkins, of North Wales, Pa., has in his possession a deed signed by William Penn. Ex-Skoretary Whitney is 4* years, old. His father was Collector of Boston nnder Buchanan. Lady Randolph ChuhohilL is generally known as a woman of good, strong sense and a beauty. The average salary of the “leader writers” of the London dally papers is about £1,300 a year. Mbs. Lanqtby’s recreant butler, Wm. Sumpter, is in trouble. His trife asks for divorce and alimony. Ex-President Cleveland says he has neither purchased nor thought of purchasing a yacht for himself. Stephen H. Tyng, the one popular New Ypr-k pastor, Is doing an excellent life insurance business In Paris. The house In which Aaron Burr courted Estelle Provost, his wife, it still standing at Paramus, N. J. It is of rough stone. A daughter of General Rosecraus is an Ursullne nun, who, until very recently, was assigned to the convent at Santa Rosa, Gal. Mbs. M. Edith Howoorr, of New Orleans, Is the owner of over 50,000 acres of selected timber lands in Louisiana and Mississippi. Gustav Fbeytag, the moot distinguished of German novelists, lives in the pretty town of Wiesbaden, where he occupies a handsome villa. Thomas Winans, the millionaire, who had lived luxuriously, said on his deathbed he would give a million dollars to be able to eat a piece of bread and butter. Mbs. Augusta EvAJrt-WiLaoN, the Southern novelist, is short and stout, with a good-natured, intelligent face, having an expression of happy contentment, It was twenty veara ago this winter that Adelina Patti captured St Petersburg and received from the Emperor’s own hand the decoration of the Order of Merit.

Stanley Palmer, a prisoner in the New Castle (Del.) Jail, has invented a toy puzzle for which he is said to have been offered SIO,OOO by New Yspeculators. It is said that Gladstone is so sensitive to adverse criticisms that every newspaper, magazine, book, or other publication that comes to Ha warden Is examined by members of his family before It reaches him for fear that some unpleasant opinions may upset his equllibrium.-