Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1888 — PEOPLE WE READ ABOUT. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE WE READ ABOUT.

Mrs. Mary Chapman, tne young a its of a settler in the central part t of the Territory, remained alone at home while herhusband was away looking after his cattle. The storm came on suddenly,! and it was nearly three days before he was able to get back through the drifts, and when he entered the Cabin he found his wife lying insensible on the bed. There Was j ust food enough left for a meal for her husband, and she had gone without eating for two days rather than touch a crust of it When brought back to consciousness the noble little woman threw her arms around her hueband’s neck and cried: “Oh, Jim I thought you might come home nearly dead with hunger.” This typical wife had a true-soul sister in the heroine of a story that was not long ago published in the London papers: A little girl lay dying in a hovel at Shoreditch. “Now there will be einough for tbe rest to eat,” she said.” Queen Ogla, of Greece, is a beautiful woman, with a plump, well developed form, thick, handsome hair end expressive eyes. She has sweet and charming manners. She is a fearless horsewoman, but is very domestic, withal, and is often seen at a loom spinning silk. She is a devout Greek in religion, leads a pure life and is devotedly loved by the Greek people. Mrs. Mary E. Cone, aged 50, was married last week in New York fa her uncle, Edward Weston, aged 69. Lejal advice was taken before the ceremon , as to the validity of such a union, and nothing was found in secular law or the provisions of any Protestant church prohibiting marriage cf uncle and niece. Mrs. Marry Hurley, of San Francisco, is 105 years old, and without any one to care for her, having outlived all her family. Some time ago her only son, aged 80 years, died, and a few days ago she loit her only remaining child, a daughteref 68. — Reports of the. serious illness of Kossuth are denied. He is living in Turin in excellent heah h. > He meant to go to Florence for a visit, out the severely cold weather caused him to stay at home. His eons are living in Naples. Mrs. Sarah Neal, an efficient clerk in the Pension Office, at Washington, is a great-grandmother. Her mother, who was, of course, a great-great-grand-mother, died only a few days ago at her .daughter’s home. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is still a noticeably fine-looking woman with great masses of white hair and a strong, intelligent face. She avows herself as enthusiastically enliste'd in the womans suffrage campaign as ever. Dr. Boggs, the inventor of the “gold brick” game for fleecing tenderfeet, and one of the most dangerous confidence men in the West, has “reformed” and taken up the business oi bookmaking on the race tracks. Oscar Wilde has had h's dining rcom and all the furniture in it painted white, for the reason that “dead white is the only back-ground against which a man looks picturesque in evening dress. Senator George, of Mississippi, is credited with having promised his constituents that he would never wear a dress suit or ride in a carriage, and with also having kept his word. State Senator Walker, of New York, is a millionaire who asserts bis right as an American c tizen to do just as he pleases by wearing blue shift collars. - “Only respectable poverty” is what Ward McAllister calls a fortune of SI,OOO- - Most of us will be content with such poverty. The lata Carghfsh Bin Saed, Sultan of Zanzibar, leaves twenty-seven widows and 233 children. Enough has Bin, Saed. Prince Bisma’k is said to own distilleres which produce annually more than half a million gallons of whisky. Representative Thornes, of Illinois, wears the loudest overcoat in Congress. It'iS of beaver fur. The Prince of Wales’ income from the Duchy of Cornwall was nearly $500,000 for the year just ended. Frank Stockton does not believe that an author need feel grief in order to produce it in others. '■ Eveiy few days the Queen Regent of Spain site for a new photograph. A Kansas poetoffice has been named after Ooh Daniel Lamont.- ~