Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

The official announcement in made of the I etrcthal of Princess Josephine of Flanders to Prinoe 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 The Czar of Russia recently said that his highest ambition in this life wm to treat his subjects that history would speak of him as the Peasant Monarch. The Duke of Cambridge is the only member of British royalty who docs not pay postage on his letters; his pos tion as Cornmander-ln-chief of the army ex, mpts him, Jessie Talmage Smith, Dr. Ta'mage’s oldest daughter, is noted among her a qua niauces for Ker outspoken o. inions, she Is without hobb'.es and is fond ct home duties.

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. He Is slowly drinking himself into his grave. According to Captain R. D. Bell, of Alaska, the Alaskan Indian will be a curiosity i i ten years unless something is done to keep bad whisky from him and free him from the awiul diseases from which he is a sufferer. TilE first and only doctress of law in France is Mlle. Jeanne Chanlm. As an order of the vice rector of the Academy of Paris forbids women pupils having copies of the code, Mlle Chanim's Instructions to her classes are wholly oral. W. D. Howells recently made one of his semi-annual visits to his father's home in Jefferson, Ohio. J. D. Howells, editor of the Ashtabula Sentinel, his brother, his sister, an Invalid brother and his father still live in the old homestead. It is understood that the Duke of York has answered cordially the Invitation of the Australian premier to visit Australia with the dhehess this year, excusing himself on the ground that domestic circumstances compel him to decline for the present. William Howe, the celebrated American artist, now resident In Paris, was once a window trimmer in a dry goods home 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. Constance Fenimorb Woolson had a premonition of her untimely end. She was a victim of morbidness and longed for rest from wandering homelessly about the world. In one of her last letters to a friend she says: “The world has never produced a more homeloving woman than I am, yet by a strange fate I have been homeless for twefity years.