Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1891 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Charles A. Dana is. talcing billiard lessons from Maurice Daly. The King of Greece has made SB,000;000 in speculation on the London ’Change. Princess Beatrice may be said to be decidedly stout, as she weighs 210 pounds. Rokert Shaw, of Brooklyn, owns the old gun with which Israel Putnam shot the wolf.

Queen Marguerite, of Italy, is a devoted student of the Hebrew language and literature. Mark Twain will go abroad next month to be absent from home several years. His family accompany him. Ex-Congressman Barksdale, of Mississippi, is likely to be the successor of Mr. Walthall in the United States Senate. Count Von Moltke was a semi-in-valid until he reached his forties, and yet managed to survive more than half a century.

Miss Anna Dickinson’s manager announces that arrangements have been made for her appearance in England about June 1. James M. Eveleth, who died in Washington the other day at 89, had been for sixty-two years a clerk in the War Department. Governors Pattison and Abbett have made conditional promises to attend the unvelingof the monument to Henry W. Grady. That magnificent silver service, consisting of sixty pieces, is to be presented to Senator Gorman in Baltimore this week Thursday. __ In the absence of Baron de Fava r Senor Romero, the Mexican Minister, becomes the acting dean of the diplomatic corps in Washington. Ex-Empress Eugenie, while in Paris a few weeks ago, attracted attention by her pallor and feebleness. She is not expected to live much longer.

Lord Tennyson has a large dairy on the Isle of Wight and sells milk. Perhaps that is how he fell into the habit of watering his poetry. . Goethe presented about thirty volumes of his works to Harvard College, and they are in the library, with the author’s autograph in each volume. "7 Mme. Bernhardt left San Francisco on Friday for Australia. Her receipts in that city reached $40,045, the largest business she ever played to in one week.

Gen. Butler’s forthcoming book, it is said, will contain certain disclosures that will create sensations such as were produced by no previous war history. The appointment of Lieut. Clarke, of the United Stategcavalry, to serve with the Dusseldorf Hussas has evoked approving comments from the German press. iThere are 40,000 women studying in the various colleges of the country. And yet it is only twenty-five years since the first college in the land was opened to women.

Mrs. Jenness-Miller thinks that a short skirt with cloth top boots extending as far up as the knee, and an easy-fitting waist, is the most artistic form of Jdress it is possible to make. Lord Randolph Churchill’s promised book on his visit to Mashonaland is to appear first in a series of twenty letters in the London Graphic, for which he has been paid SIO,OOO. William Dean Howells has a charming house on Commonwealth avenue, Boston, which he leaves next autumn to reside in New York. He has soft blue eyes and a coy manner. Mrs. Jeannette Thurber has two daughters who are very skillful musicians.