Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Fredrric E. Ives, of Philadelphia, has received a gold medal awarde.i by the . ienna Photographic Society for Cjlor photography. A .iudge in Cincinnati has decide ! that a man who blows out the gas must Bt nd the consequences. Unless a phy»iCi_n is hard by he generally does. Mayor Gilroy, of New York, has just received from an admirer in Cork a Kilkenny cat. If it was intended as a political joke the cat was not needed in New York. Spurgeon was a prolific writer ot •ernr ns. Thirty-nine volumes have already been issued, and there is matter eni ugh still unpublished to make thirteen more. General von Werder, German ambassador at St. Petersburg and the “hero of Belfort,” has been decorated with the Order of the Black Eagle by Emperor William. The Rothschild family are prejud ced against scented flowers except the rose. Of this species Alice Rothsch Id is an enthusiastic cultivator, and boasts of a collection worth $50,000.

John Drew, the aotor, thinks more, it is said, of being the lion at a social event than of the applause of a crowded theater. He dotes on afternoon teas and the admiring glances of women. Lady Battersea spoke before the Women’s Christian Temperance Union of Brecon, Wales, some time since, and women acted as stewards, attending to all the details of the meeting for the first time in history. The Arago gold medal recently conferred on Professor Barnum, the Chicago astronomer, by the French Astronomical Bociety, was given to but one man before, Leverrier, the celebrated astronomer of France. Bismarck once refused to secure an appointment for the son of Empress Eugenie, whereupon her Majesty ca led him the “wild man of the woods.” Among habitues of European court-* the incident is still related. Secretary Morton is authority foi the statement that the Weather Bureau has saved to agriculture, manuf .oture, and commerce during the last few months more than its entire appropriation for the next fiscal year. 1 A WTlkie Collins memorial has been established, in the shape of a library of fiction, in the People’s Palace In the East End of London. The collection is one of English novels and poetry, and it numbers 1,100 volumes. Joseph Israel, the celebrated Hoi land painter, celebrated the jubiiee year of his life a few weeks ago. He was born Jan. 27,1824, of poor Jewish parantp. For years he has been recog- $ of the leading artists of