Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1892 — People and Events. [ARTICLE]

People and Events.

The Archbishop of Canterbury canters London on a fine cob. Thebe are 10,000 organized brass bq.nds in the State of Pennsylvania. A gibl In Norway mast be able to bake bread before she can havo a beau. Cbicket was played under the name of “club ball” as early as the fourteenth century. The proportion of Anglo-Saxon words in the English Bible is 97 per cent, of the whole. Dbied fish was formerly, and is still to some extent, a medium of exchange in Iceland. Within the last three years the Indians have disposed of 2,600,000 acres of their lands. The Disstons have a mausoleum in Central Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, that cost $65,000. The sandblast process is now applied to the lettering of tombstones. Many a man’s record will thus be blasted. The fund to Mrs. Grimwood, the heroine of Manipur, which was started by the Princess of Wales, has been concluded at the sum of $6,500. And now the court of Vienna is all in an upset by the reported engagement of the Crown Princess Stephanie to a wealthy American gentleman. A baby born in Georgia a few weeks ago has two grandmothers, two greatgrandmothers and one great-great-grandmother to nurse and pet him. Neal Dow is 87 years old, and vigor- * ous enough to get in a rousing whack for prohibition now and then. He lives in the house he built in Portland, Me., sixty-five years ago. , - \ The new Government of Brazil has suspended proceedings In the confiscation of the property belonging to Princess Isabella and other members of the family of the late Emperor. The Speaker of the House of Commons is a very’lhcky person, who _is enabled to draw a’salary of $25,000“a year while he exercises the functions of his office, and when he is retired is hoisted to the peerage and revels in a pension of $20,000. Mbs. Vibginia Thompson, a daughter of Alexander Campbell, who founded the “Campbellite” sect, has been postmistress of Louisville under five administrations, and is not only a clever and reliable official, but a matronly looking beauty of fine presence and excellent manners. The Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, who succeeds the Rev. Brooke Herford in his Boston pulpit, is one of the youngest clergymen in the country. He Is but 29 years of age, and a second son of President Eliot, of Harvard, whom he resembles. He has been preaching in Denver during the past two years. James Whitcomb Riley is called the most popular of the American poets by the leading magazines. All of his work has a refreshing and strengthening tone that makes it most pleasant reading, and tributes ate being paid to it in many quarters.