Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Mrs. Thomas Hardy has always been a most able second in her husband’s literary work. There’s a hospital in Soo Chow, China, in charge of Dr. Anne Walter, a Mississippi woman. Mrs. J. E. B. Stewart, widow of the famous Confederate raider, is Znow the principal of a girls’ school lb Missouri. Gen. William Booth, of the Salvation Army, is about 66 years of age, and is as active and vigorous as many men of 30. Count Tolstoi laid the foundation of his literary reputation by writing news letters from Sebastopol during the Crimean war. Miss Elizabeth Fleming has been appointed crier of the United States Circuit and District Courts at Portland. Miss Fleming was previously the court stenographer. A Western bishop of the Episcopal Church says that the success of the church’s missionary operations in the far West is largely'due to the munificence of Cornelius Vanderbilt Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton has a London home at Weymouth street, Portland place, and she is accredited with being one of the halfdozen women in London able to create and hold a salon. Herbert Gladstone has. undertaken the task of raising money for a statue of Cromwell. If he succeeds in this, there will be no certainty that the statue will bepermitted to find a resting place in Westminster Abbey. Sir Arthur Sullivan at 51 is portrayed as a short-necked, thick-set, beetle-browed man, with curly black hair, mustache, and side whiskers. He is somewhat stilted in manner, and has been composing for thirty-five years.