Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — BRIEF NOTES OF NOTABLES. [ARTICLE]

BRIEF NOTES OF NOTABLES.

According to Hamilton W. Mablcy tne “Scarlet Letter” and are the best American novels. Lady Colin Campbell, erstwhile editor of a little paper called the Realm, Is a noted swimmer and fencer. Sir Julian Goldsmidt, who left about 11,000,000 to his daughters, has done so on the footing that if any of them marries a Gentile her Share Is to be reduced to half. Gov. Coffin pf Connecticut is good enough to say that reporters have been of service to him In reporting his speeches much better than he had delivered them. Those who think the Bamum white elephant story of a few years ago a fake may find a record in the New York custom house, where Hon. P, T. swore that the animal was worth $200,000. The Church Union, of which Mrs. Elizabeth B. Grannis has been the editor and proprietor tor more than ten years, has been sold to Rev. Samuel T. Carter, one of its contributing editors. Rev. Thomas Vincent Tymms, principal of Rawdon College, Leeds, Eng., and president-elect of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, is a man of brilliant scholarship. Among the books he has written, “The Mysterious God” is best known. Alfred Pereival Graves, M. A., the author of “Father O’Flynn,”‘is without doubt the most popular poet of Ireland alive. Mr. Graves has for long been one of her majesty’s Inspectors of schools,- and resides a,t Taunton. He comes from a distinguished people, being a son of the bishop of Limerick, and a son-in-law of the late Von Ranke, the German historian. Lord Arthur Hill, who may succeed Sir Henry Blake as governor of Jamaica, had a romantic wooing. His present wife was companion to his mother, the Marchioness of Devonshire. Thinking that a marriage with her would be against his interests, she suddenly disappeared,and it was only with difficulty that he could discover her whereabouts and induce her to reconsider her determination. It was this episode she embalmed In poetry In the well-known song, “In the Gloaming.” ;