Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1898 — PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Kaiser Wilhelm has issued an order that the court chaplains shall limit their sermons to fifteen minutes. Thomas A. Kirkpatrick, of San Francisco, a naturalized citizen of the United States, is a cousin of ex-Empress Eugenie. James M. Hobson Jr., a brother of Lieut. Hobson, of Merrimac fame, has passed 'the preliminary examination for admission to West Point. Prof. Ernest Grosse, the eminent ethnologist, delivered a course of lectures on art at the University of Frleberg last semester, in which lie declared Japanese art to be the most perfect in existence. W. E. Henley, one of the most conspicuous journalists in London, and also a poet of no mean quality, has been honored by Mr. Balfour with a pension of SI,OOO a year. A like sum was allotted to Tennyson in 1845, and the late laureate lived to draw it forty-seven times. Mr. Gosse is so convinced of the correctness of the theory that great men are the products of their time that he asserts that if Tennyson had been born in 1550 or in 1720 “his poetry, had he written in verse, could have scarcely a remote resemblance to what we have now received from his hand.” It is reported that Rudyard Kipling has become a great admirer of Cedi Rhodes. During his recent stay in London Mr. Kipling was asked by a woman at dinner if Mr. Rhodes was married. “Yes,” he replied, “to tens of thousands of square miles of British territory. England cannot afford to let a man like that marry la any other way.” The superintendent of Grace Episcopal Sunday school of Oswego, N. Y., recently read the names of the pupils who were absent, and when he came to that of “Joe” Powell the whole school broke out into applause. This somewhat unusual action is explained by the fact that “Joe” Powell Is better known to the world as Cadeit Joseph W. Powell, who so pluckily stood by in a launch to aid Hobson at Santiago the other day. In his will the late Sir Henry Havelock Allen bequeathed all the papers and correspondence of his father, Gen. Havelock, of Indian mutiny fame, and all of his own to Maj. Gen. McLeod Illness, with £IOO, on condition that the la tter write n biography of the testator, especially placing before the public an exact account of the events that forced the testator out of the English army.