Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1886 — Mrs. Hendricks Annoyed by Mediums. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Hendricks Annoyed by Mediums.

[lndianapolis dispatch.] Mrs. Hendricks has been much annoyed by mediums and spiritualists claiming to have received messages from Mr. Hendricks. Prominent amoDg them is a Washington medium named West, who has sent her several batches of spirit poetry, with the explanation that they came to her in the dead of night, forced her out of bed to write them down, etc. Another communication comes from a New York medium, who inclosed a letter which he said he had received from Mr. Hendricks, claiming that it was undoubtedly the handwriting of the late Vice President, but Mrs. Hendricks characterized it as a clever piece of ' imitation and easily detected the difference, “Of course, I do not believe in such things,” she said, “and do not'see that any good can come from encouraging them.” The first binocular opera glasses were made hy an optician of Paris named Chorez, and presented to King Louis XU. in 1600. t —f r—* < * ' Oscar Wilde threatens to come to America again. . But he’s married now, and wears the clothes that belong to civilization. The Legislature of Connecticut has appropriated SIO,OOO to bnild a monument to General Israel Putnam. Mr. Church, the artist, and Charles Dudley Warner have gone to Mexico. -