Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT

. Kaiser Wilhelm has Issued an c: ler that the count chaplains shall 1 ni their sermons to fifteen minutes. Thomas A. Kirkpatrick, of San I'ran cisco, a naturalized citizen of the United Staten, Is a cousin of ex-Empress Eugenie. James M. Honson Jr., a brother of Lieut. Hobson, of Merrimac fame, has passed the preliminary examination for admission to West Point. Prof. Ernest Grosse, the eminent eth nologist, delivered a course of Jeeturea on art at the University of Frieberg last semester, in which he declared Jap anese art to be the most perfect in ex Istence.

W. E. Henley, one of the most con spicuous journalists In London, and also a poet of no mean quality, has been honored by Mr. Balfour with a peusioz of SI,OOO a year. A like sum was allotted to Tennyson in 1845, and the late laureate lived to draw it forty-seveK times. Mr. Gosse is so convinced of the cor rectness of the theory that great mer 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 Cecil Rhodes. During his recent stay in Lon don 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 1n nry ~y»> The super I ice Episcopal Sunday vx c. .. o j, N. Y., recently read the najnes 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 thq fact that “Joe” Powell is better known tc the world as Cadet Joseph W. Powell, who so pluckily stood by in a launch to add Hobson at Santiago the othei day. In his will the late Sir Henry Hav» lock Allen.i-bequeathed all the papers and correspondence of his father, Gen, Havelock, of Indian mutiny fame, am’ all of his own to Maj. Gen. McLeod In - ness, with £IOO, on condition that the letter write a biography of the testator i epecially placing before ttfb public ai exact account of the events that forces the testator out of the English armv.