Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1885 — THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE.

Col. Charles Denby, the New Minister to China. 1 Col. Charles Denby, who goes as Minister to China to succeed Mr. John Russell Young, is fifty-four years of age. He was born in Botetourt County, Virginia. He was educated at Georgetown College, where he took three medals—more than had ever before been received by any one boy. His education was completed at the Virgtnix Military Institute. In 1853 Col. Denby removed to Evansville, Ind., where, with th< exception of three years during the war, hi has since resided and practiced law. During the rebellion he was Lieutenant Colonel

of the Forty-second Indiana Regiment .He was twice wounded. He has been a mem-, her of the Indiana State Legislature. Col. Denby was requested to accept the nomination to Congress from the First Indiana Congressional District, but declined and has devoted his time almost exclusively to the legal profession. He was indorsed by the entire Indiana delegation and by prominent men outside of that State. Col. Denby has been for years a close student of Oriental affairs, and has besides a thorough knowledge of French and Spanish, which will be of inestimable advantage to him in his new capacity. Walker Fearn, Minister to Greece. Walker Fearn, the new Minister to Greece, Servia, and Roumania, is a native of Alabama, having been born at Huntsville, in that State in 1832. He graduated at Yale College in 1851. He showed a fondness for literary studies, and at an early age became an accomplished linguist. He studied law under the tuition of Judge John A. Campbell, and was admitted to practice in Mobile in 1853. The next year he went abroad, and filled the post of Secretary of the American Legation at Brussels. From 1856 to 1858 he was Secretary of the United

States Legation in Mexico. Havingthad such experience in diplomacy, he was selected by the Confederate Government to go on a special mission to Europe. He entered actively into the military service of the Confederacy, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel on the staff of Gen. Preston. After peace was declared he resumed his long-interrupted practice of lav?, and made his homeln New Orleans; but he was subsequently elected Professor of Spanish and Italian in the University of Louisiana. ~ - Boyd Winchester, Minister to Switzerland. President Cleveland’s appointee as Minister to Switzerland was born in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, in 1832. His parents removed to Kentucky when he was quite young, and he was sent to school at Danville. He was graduated in the law course at the University of Louisville in 1857. The same year, after having been admitted to the bar, he elected to the Kentucky

Senate. In 1868 he was a district elector on the Seymour and Blair Presidential ticket. The following, year (1869) he was elected a Representative in the Forty-first Congress from the Louisville district, and re-elected to the Forty-second Congress, serving from December,’ 1870, to, March, 1874. When young Winchester removed from Louisiana to Kentucky, he spoke French better than his mother tongue. Of course, he is still proficient in the court language of Europe, and it will serve him to good advantage at Berne, where the Gallic element prevails. *.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man—the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse—the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor,' and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.— Mrs. Jameson. ■—' —_ . - Ingersoll says that a man’s surroundings are responsible for his belief. Mohammed held that women can not enter the kingdom of heaven. He had eleven wives. A pistol ball in motion was_photographed in Italy the other day, ’and yet it takes a woman longer to get ready to go somewhere than it did when Joseph Was in Egypt Molecules are very small—nearly as small as the souls of some people.