Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1891 — MEN AND WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

MEN AND WOMEN.

Geo. W. Olmstead, a Brockwayville (Pa.) boy- just outOf knee-pants, has been offered $40,000 for fire escape he has patented. The late Duke of Bedford’s yearly income apart from his persofial estate or from his enormous property in London, appears to have been $750,000. The grave of Brigham Young is covered by a plain and inconspicuous slab of granite. It lies in an inclosed city lot tn Salt Lake City, surrounded by a low iron fence. A few of the prophet’s wives lie buried near byMrs. Moncure D. Conway knew both Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle, and often visited them at their London home. She pays a glowing tribute to the conversational powers of Jane Welsh Carlyle, but says she was destitute of housewifely gifts. Upon one occasion Mrs. Carlyle sat up until midnight to bake bread, and this at a time when she had three servants in the house. —r^Emperor William, to the surprise of many people, has appointed Prince Albrecht, of Prussia, at present regent of Brunswick, the successor of Count Vcn Moltke as president of the national commission of defense, The prince is a cousin of the late emperor Frederick. He is the handsomest living member of the Hohenzollern family. He is one of the tallest officers in the army, being almost 6 feet flinches in height. Princess Louise of Denmark, the daughter of the crown, prince of that country, and Prince Eugene, third living sou; of the King of Sweden, are engaged to be married. The bride is a descendant of Queen Louise of Prussia, mother of the late Emperor William. Prince Eugene, who was born in 1865, and is a cousin of the bride, spent several years in Paris in the studios of celebrated painters and became an artist of some pretensions.