Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1887 — PEOPLE WEREAD ABOUT. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE WEREAD ABOUT.

A story is told of the late Rev. William Drury, voar pi Braddan, Isle of Man, to the effect that he was once on the rocks with a picnic party, when a sea bird, known as a “diver,” was seen on the water some little distance from the shore. The vicar, who was then about 80 years of age, said: “Watch me catch that bird,” and in a moment, withont taking off any of his clothes, he rushed to the edge of the rocks nnd made a quick dive into the water. The bird dived too, bat the vicar caught it under the water and brought it ashore alive to the party. * President Bliot,of Harvard University, who has just returned from a trip throngh Europe, says that English is rapidly spreading over the continent as the universal language. He traveled through Spain, Northern Africa, Greece and Aadtria, as well as through many more commonly visited countries, and he found that he conld travel comfortably through all of these countries with no language bat English. Howard Potter has a large family, one of whish is James Brown Potter, his grandfather’s namesake and favorite. He was educated as an architect, and was pursuing that profession, when, some ten years ago, he met the New Orleans belle, Cora Urquhart, whose mother was a Slocomb, one of the best families in the South, and whose father was David Vrquhart. George Seaverns, of Chicago, is worth $8,000,000 and the bmlk of it was made in “cleaning” wheat This process is not allowed in the “regular” elevators, and Seaverns has asked to have the one that he owns taken out of the list of the “regular” and returned to ths category of “private” elevators. A dispatch from Bnda Pasth to the Frankfurter Beitung says that Baron Hirsch has decided to distribute 100,000,000 francs among all the existing European Jewish charity institutions. His private secretary has started for Bussia to begin the distribution there.

Miss Sarah Burr has left about $90,000 to the Mount Sinai Hospital and -the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in New York. It is unusual for Christians to take bequests to Jewish institutions, and the Jewish Messenger advocates a memorial to Miss Burr’s memory. Mrs. Fred Grant, along with her sister, Mrs. Potter Palmer, was educated at Georgetown Convent. The two girls, were beautiful, were vast favorites with the accomplished Sisters, and the affections then formed have never been broken. Gen. F. J. Marshall, the first Governor elected by the people of Kansas, now resides in Denver and is interested Tn'mfnlng'enterpniei. ~TBe"is~”a mi(l3Tesiced gentleman, a little stout, with sharp eyes and prominent features. % ■ - Henry Watterson declares that “the girl who does not expect some time or other to get a husband and nurse a baby ought to be thrown in her infancy into the nearest hog pond.” Mathias Splidog, a risk Indian railway bnilderbe gan life on fifty centep and borrowed ax and went to work cutting wood for steamboats at twenty-five cents a cord. The Duke of Argyll’s latest hobby on his Scoth estates is the American starling. Inverary is said to literally swarm with species of this plucky, hardy warbler. ~ A correspondent writes that the She-! press of Bracil used to be a plain, com-mon-place little woman, but that now she has a really heavenly conntenanae.