Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — Men and Women. [ARTICLE]

Men and Women.

Rider Haggard says liis front namo ihould be pronounced “Reeder.” The Duchess Bolouguine of Milan, Italy, has sold $600,000 worth of her ewels to build a hospital for children in hat city. The king of the Belgians always ileeps on a camp bed. He is an adverlary of capital punishment, and no execution has taken place in Brussels durng his reign. Ex-Senator Edmunds is said to aciept no smaller retainer than $2,000 “in iases of importance,” and to refuse ajl >ther kinds of cases. With his large mnual professional income, however, ie hasn’t much of a fortune as fortunes ;o now. It has been said that Queen Victoria S the only person now living that knew Sir Walter Scott personally. But there s an old bookseller in Edinburg who >ften talked with him, and it is thought irobable that, there must be still others vho can claim that honor. Plantagenet Broome, who died in Berlin the other day, was a most interring man, but not so interesting as vas his name. The word Plantagenet tself means “broom-plant,” and the ■itle was given to the English dynasty recause Geoffrey of Anjou, Henry ll.’s lather, wore a sprig of the broom-plant n his cap. The verbal redundancy in '■he case of the late Mr. Broome is curi>us, says the New York World, but his 'ondness for his name was matched by hat of Josiah Quincy, one of the memrers of the famous Massachusetts amily, who named his son Josiah Josiah iuincy. ’ W hen the present ameer of Afghanstan was yet an exile he made a preen se of stupidity which deceived a great nany people. But after being invested vith his present authority he displayed mrprising keenness. On one occasion he Russian commandant in Turkestan ent him word that it was proposed to ake 500 artillerymen and cavalry out or exercise on the Afghan frontier, and ixpressed a hope that it would not give 'ise to apprehensions on the part of his dghness. Abdurrahman replied that he .ad no objections, because, as it hap>ened, he was about to exereise 5,000 :avalry, artillery, and infantry on his ide of the frontier at the same place, and here was plenty of room for both. The lint was enough. The Russians wrote hanking the ameer, but intimating that hey had found another site for their aaneuvera.