Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — This and That. [ARTICLE]

This and That.

The Queen is sometimes rather shaky in her spelling. When she is in doubt she writes the word so illegibly that the possible mistake is hidden. William Chambers, of Chatham, Ont., who is claimed to be a survivor of the battle of Waterloo, is reputed to be well and hearty at the great age of 107 years. It is said the appointment of Editor Walsh as Senator from Georgia to succeed the late Mr. Colquitt, is largely due to Gov. Northen s wife, who used her influence in his favor. Sir Arthur Sullivan’s father wa» bandmaster of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.. As a boy he was made to learn every instrument in the band except the bassoon and the hautbois, and to this invaluable training Sir Arthur attribu es all his power cf orchestration. i The Emperor of Germany drinks nothing but Mexican coffee, and a year’s supply is sent to him regularly after e ery harvest from a plantation in the State of Michoacan, which lies on the Pacific coast of Mexico about midway between the United State < and Central America. There is a large '’-rman colony there which has been - “offee for many years.