Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1891 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Mrs. Grover Cleveland is stilt struggling with the conjunction of French verbs. A • ■ Mrs. Jefferson Da«is, who is at present in New York, denies that she is going to reside in Richmond. Whistler the artist, is now blamed with having given Oscar Wilde the idea that America was the country of fools. A slim,quite and unassuming country- vicar-like man is Dr. Sir Morell Mackenzie,the famous London throat specialist. Gen. Jubal Early still wears the confederate gray, and has long white hair and whiskers. He mingles little with. men. Adelaide Qis tori, although 70 years old, is still erect and strong. She attributes her good health to always having slept well. Ballinffton Booth and Mrs. Booth are about to start on a 9,000-mile trip to inspect the various branches of the Salvation Army. # If Col. D. R. Anthony and John J. Ingalls ever do buy a newspaper together who will own the controlling interest? —Kansas City Star. William Stewart, a blind law student, heads the list in the results of tha final examination in connection with the Ontario Law School. Miss Wanamaker who sailed for Europe with her mother a fortnight ago, is to be presented at court next week in a Parisian gown ordered by cable. Engineer charts prepared by Robert Lee, then of the United States Army, over fifty years ago, are now in use in St. Louis for river improvements. — —~~—— — Chauncey Depew has said to his intimate friends that his name must not be used in connection with the Republican nomination for Governor of New York. The duke of Rutland is credited with exercising the most influence over Queen Victoria of any individual since the death of the Earl of Beaconsfield. Ex-Senator Patterson,of Hanover, N. H., is named in connection with a new professorship of oratory at Dartmouth. The widow of Gen. Crook means to arrange so as to visit Washington several months in each year hereafter to be near her husband’s tomb near Arlingion. Robert Browning’s son has a beautiful home in London, which he and his wife, an American woman, are about to give up for a residence in Venice in an old palace. Henry E. Huston, the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, was one of John Morgan’s raiders on his famous excursion through Indiana and Ohio. Ella Wheeler Wilcox is building a summer home on a projecting rock on Long Island Sound, two hours’ ride from New York. Mrs. George B. McClellan and Miss McClellan, who have been abroad for some time, will return to New York in the late autum and will spend the winter in that town. Mr. Denby,United States Minister to China, has provided for the sending of tea seeds to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce,the culture of tea near that city having been determined upon. Eugene Bertrand, the new director of the Grand Opera House of Paris, served an apprentiseship as a theatrical manager in the United State, He is 57 years old, and abandoned, medicine for the stage. One of the fairest belles New York has boasted in many a year is about to wed. She is Miss SaJlie Hargous, and she takes Mr. Duncan Elliott, a very worthy young gentleman in the railroad business. Senator Antonio Batres, the new minister to Washington front Gautemala, has filled this office once before, and still longer ago was secretary of the legation. He has an income of $40,000 from his cocoa plantation.