Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1892 — Personal Paragraphs. [ARTICLE]

Personal Paragraphs.

It is asserted that Chauncey Depew has had ”,000 American infants named after him. It was through th t influence of Bishop Phillips Brooks that tlie Salvation Army was allowed to parade the streets of Boston with music. Joseph Jefferson will play a season of oniy ten weeks next year, and “Rip \an Winkle” will be the only play in which he will be seen. IV. D. Howells will shortly cease to occupy the “Editor’s Study” of Harper's Magazine. His place will be taken by Cliarlis Dudley Warner, whose knowledge of men and books and whoso critical powers are at least equal to Mr. Howells’. It has been po-itively asserted that an appreciable number of Mr. Gladstone’s collars disappear annually in the wash, abstracted, it is believed, from the basket of the laundress by devotees determined to possess themselves, at any cost, of a memor.al of the;r idol. John I. Blair, of Blairsville, N. J., Is reputed to be worth a'l the way from 850,000,000 to SIOO. (00.000. He has never sold a share of stock in any enterprise with which he has been associated, and has money in scores of laiiroads, some, of which he absolutely cohtrols. A not very definite story is current that Miss Murfree, the author, has married one of her typical Tennessee mountaineers. This lady has lived a quiet life, devoting herself to Sunday-schcol and other local interests, and giving people the impres ion that she did not intend to marry. Governor Jones, the head of the Choctaw Nation, is a pacific savage clad in store c othes, which lcok as if he had donned them with the aid of a pitchfork. Ho w ars a stubby gray mustache, a portentous watch chain and a diamond pin nestling in a sky blue cravat. He talks very little English.