Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1894 — Personal Paragraphs. [ARTICLE]

Personal Paragraphs.

The official announcement is made ot the betrothal of Princess Josephine of Flanders to Prince Charles of Hohenzollern. The late W. B. F. Fort, of Wayne County, North Carolina, was born and reared on property granted to his ancestors by George 111. Henry H. Faxon, of Quincy, Mass., police force, is a millionaire. He serves without pay and devotes his> energies to enforcing the liquor laws. The Czar of ’Russia recently said that his highest ambition La this life was to treat his subjects that history would speak of him as the Peasant Monarch. The Duke of Cambridge is the only member of British royaltyi, who doe's not pay postage onhis letters; his position as-, Commamder-iu-ichief of the army exempts him. Jessie Talmage Dr. Talmage’s eldest daughter, is noted among her acquaintances for her outspoken opinions. She is without hobbies and is fond of home duties. •Following the example George Eliot, George Sand and George Fleming, Mgs. ClairinoA‘t'6',''•who is coming into prominence as flOVeiist, calls herself “George Edgerton. k 1 •* Though the King of Siam has a palace which he can submerge in the. sea at will he prefers to enjoy an internal bath of intoxicating beverages, fife is Slowly drinking himself into his grave. William How®,, cqlebrpted American artist, now residpnGin Pftris, was once a window trimmer in a. dry goods house in Grand Rapids, Mich. He alse held a similar position in St. Louis, where he found a friend who advanced him money with'»which to study art. He now is one of the greatest animal painters in the world.