Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1889 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Chxuncet M. Depew’s annual Income is said to reach the sum of <125, - >OOO. . The largest private library in Washington is that of George Bancroft the historian, it contains 12,000 volumes. ■ f 1 Mme. Dejerine Kllmpke, an American wife of a Frenchman, has won the degree of “doctoresse” from the Paris Faculty of Medicine with high honors. Frank Jones, the big ale-brewer of Portsmouth, N. H., and the richest man in. the state, is largely interested in the suit to annul the Bell telephone patent. He represented his district in congress from 1877 to 1879, and was mentioned as Cleveland's possible secretary of the navy. The late Mr. Thaw of Pittsburg, Pa., had $1,000,000 invested in the Inman steamship line, $3,500,000 in a N),000-acre farm, any $1,000,000 in Pennsylvania railroad stock. He also had a large amount of money invested in other securities. It is that he spent $200,000 a year in charity. ~, Warren Humes, the oldest guide and the most experienced hunter in the Adirondacks, makes an estimate that will be interesting to sportsmen. He claims that there are today no less than 50,000 deer and 5,000 bears in those regions. Mr. Humes has hunted there for the last forty-five years, and during that time has killed over 4,000 deer and more than 200 bears. Sir Moreij, Mackenzie has decided to set apart a portion of his autumn holiday for the preparation of a work to be entitled “Six Months' Residence at the Court of the Crownj|rinee -apd the Germ m Emperor.” The work will be complete, as Sir Morell took notes of every! conversation in which he took part or at which he was present, but it will not be published during the lifetime of the Empress Frederick. Elmira has a peculiar case of love and marriage between a school principal and one of her former pupils. Miss Hannah Rhodes was 45 years old when she approached the matrimonial altar. She had been a teacher in the public schools of that city before her husband, Thomas F. Connelly, was born. He is about 22 years old, and when a youngster he not un frequently felt the effects of vigorous punishment at the hands of his present spouse. The Archduke Albrecht, commander in-chief of the Austrian army, is the wealthiest man in Austria-Hungary. The other day, while on a tour of inspection in Hungary, he spent fortyeight hours in a small provincial town. The bill presented to him amounted to £153 12s. It was paid without a murmnr, next day the officers of the garrison received strict orders not to set foot in the hoteTlh question, and for the next twelve months no military band will be allowed to play in the town. That will probably make the innkeeper’s extortion the nearest transaction he ever attempted.

Da is an American. His father, Capt- Edward Brown of the American navy, was a Philadelphian, and married on the island of Mauritius a French woman named Sequard. He and his decendants took the name of Brown-Sequad. The distinguished scientist, whose elixir of youth is rhaking- a sensation, was their eldest child. Ho was educated in France, but was afterward a professor at Harvard, and practiced medicine in New York city for some years subsequent to 1873. He married twice, his first wife being Miss Fletcher of Boston, B relative of Daniel Webster. The betrothal is announced at Berlin of the duke of Nassau to Princess Margaret, youngest sister of Emperor William of Germany. William Alexander, duke of Nassau, is a son of William August Charles Frederick by bis second marriage (to the Duchess Adelaide Marie, daughter ,of Frederick, prince of; Anhalt)* and is heir to the Luxemburg. He was born April 22, 1852, and is colonel of a regiment of Austrian dragoons—the Emperor Francis Joseph No. 1 regiment. Princess Margaret Beatrice Feodora is the fifth daughter of the Ute emperor of Germany, Frederick 111. She was born at Potsdam the 22d of April, 1872. Lord Tennyson was one evening dining at court with a little grandchild. It ao happened that near the end of the meal there was a plate ne r the queen with a single pieoe of bread upon it, which her majesty reached over and helped herself to, when the child pointed her finger at her and to the horror of all present, who expected nothing less than instant decapitation for the daring infant, said: "Piggy—piggy—pig!” The queen with great dignity and tact said: “Quite right, my child; nobody except a queen should ever take the last piece of bre id on the plate.” Telling the anecdote to a witty Irish woman she hotly replied: “Why didn't she say nobody but a queen or a pig?"