Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — Personal Paragraphs. [ARTICLE]

Personal Paragraphs.

Miss Frances Crosby, who is best remembered as the author of “Safe in the Arms of Jesus," has been blind since she was 6 weeks old. She is now 62. Lucas Malet, the English author, is of a family of writers. Her father is Charles Kingsley, and her husband is William Harrison, the successful novelist. - Three generations of the Benham family followed the sea. The admiral’s father was a commodore in the United States navy, and his son Harry is a lieutenant in the service. The late William Harring von Ammon, of San Francisco, is said to be the father of the art of lithographing in colors in the United Stat as. He was a Prussian and died at the age of 82. Sir Julian Pauncefote, like many of his countrymen, is very fond of athletics. He'is a member 'of an athletic club in Washington, where he is taking lessons in fencing and boxing. Johann Schaub, of New Haven, Conn., has received SI,OOO from the Peruvian Government for injuries sustained at the hands of a mob while singing at a Masonic funeral in Peru in 1892.