Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1896 — PERSONAL Tidbirs [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL Tidbirs

Little Queen Wilhemlna of Holland is learning to ride a bicycle. LI Hung Chang is the son of a village woodcutter, poor and illiterate. The young Czar’s chance to make himself the most popular man in Russia is now before him. Twenty million dollars were left behind him by the Shah, who had grown avaricious of late years. The Duchess of Fife delights in gymnastics, and is an accomplished mistress of the art of fencing. Hogap Bogigion, a wealthy Armenian of Boston, is in Alabama, where he hopes to establish an Armenian colony. One of the latest schemes of Gen. Booth is to have a big exhibition of living pictures in London, to consist of converts from every nation. Mrs. U. 8. Grant, widow of the General, has written a defter to Senator Squire thanking him for the resolution which he introduced In the Senate providing for a Grant statue. Henry Watterson, of Louisville, Ky., who is not easily shocked, asserts that language fails to express his ideas re gardlng the appearance of the Parisian women who ride bicycles. The British Museum will soon lose the services of Sir Wollaston Franks, K. 0., 8., the head of the department of British and medieval antiquities. He has been an officer of the museum since 1851.