Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1895 — PERSONAL Tidbirs [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL Tidbirs

Charles B. Lewis, better known as “M. Quad,” has resumed his editorial connection with the Detroit Free Press. Mr. John W. Foster is well pleased with the peace treaty between Japan and China. He gets $16(5,000 out of it. The Princess of Wales is a lover and collector of fine and rare laces and has $150,000 vyorth locked up in her cabinets. John Ruskin can play chess and indulge in other similar recreations, but it is not thought that he will ever be able to resume literary work. Mr. .Foote has been elected president of the Boston Boot and Shoe Club. Some years ago Mr. Foote was walking on his uppers, but now he is well heeled. Chief Clarence of the Mosquito Reservation is still at Kingston, Jamaica, under British protection, and is allowed $22 a day for'living expenses. Dr. Edward S. Holden, director of the Lick Observatory, has been made a commander of the Order of the Ernestine House of Saxony in recognition of his services to science. Mrs. Potts, the woman suffrage leader of Topeka, has applied for divorce for the reason that Mr. Potts has accorded her, among other rights, the one of earning her daily bread. E. Clark, Jr., who recently ‘resigned his position as general freight ageilt of the New York Central Railroad, had been forty-seven consecutive years in the service of the company. Prof. Guntz, of Nancy, says that he has found a simpler method of obtaining argon than that of Lord Rayleigh and Prof. Ramsey. He extracts it from lithium gt| a moderate temperature. E. St. John, vice-president of the Seaboard Air Hine, was recently presented with a magnificent gold watch from the locomotive engineers of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railread as a token of their appreciation es the kind treatment they received from him while he was general manager of the Rack Island road.