Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1890 — MEN TRAT ARE KNOWN. [ARTICLE]

MEN TRAT ARE KNOWN.

Sam Jones cleared $2,000 by a weak’s work in Aberdeen. Mias. __ .... Vice-president Morton has entered upon his sixty-ninth year. Dr. Gatling, the inventor of the gun that bears that name, is an active old man of eighty years, whose home is in Hartford. The Rev. Dr. Wicken, of Manchester, Vt., claims to be the oldest living graduate of Yale. He is ninety-six and received his diploma in 1815. Senator Cullom is said to wear his hair and beard exactly as Lincoln did. He is supposed to do this to intensify his striking resemblance to the martyr President Henry M. Stanley is not likely to renounce his American citizenship to receive English honors at present, as in doing so he would forfeit the copyright of his book. Richard Vaux, who succeeded to Samuel J. Randall’s seat in Congress, seals all his letters in the old way, with wax, using a seal ring, which he. wears on his forefinger. King Humbert is a prudent monarch. Last year the civil list for the royal household was 15.350,000 francs, and) the king spent 15.339,999 francs 92 centimes, leaving not quite two cents to his credit for the ensuing year. ODr. Schliemann is working with a will at his task of laying bare all that the ages have lef. of old Troy. He has 250 men at work and he has laid down a small railway, so he is making rapid progress to the attainment of his object. During the summer holidays of each year the immensely wealthy Duke of Westminster takes in about $5,000 in sixpences and shillings, paid by sightseers for admission to his country seat. Eaton HalL He gives every penny of it to charitable institutions. Herr Krupp, a manufacturer of metal goods at Bemdorf, received a letter containing a threat that his factory would be set on fire. He immediately called a general meeting of his workmen and told them that if the factory - was burned he would not rebuild it, as he had plenty of money to live on. The fire department was not called out. It is stated that the first Napoleon very rarely wrote a letter with his own, hand, and those few in his own writing which do' exist are mostly in Italian; Ho usually dictated to a secretary a t such a rapid rate that the amanuensis had to fill up gaps from memory, rnd it is a funny fact that most of Napoleon’s love letters to Josephine were thus dictated.