Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1891 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Mark Twain is said' to allow himself three hundred cigars a month. J Mrs. U. S Grant is at Saratoga and has with her her sister-in-law, Mrs. Dent. Mute. Blavatsky’s successor a« least in England, is Lady Caithness. She is veiy rich. ~~ -- _ The King of Sweden has presented! the Town of New Sweden, Me., with fine library. The widow of Chief Justice Waite,; though 71 years of age, has dark hair and a comparatively unrinkled face. Mrs. Senator Wolcott is achieving the reputation of being the best dressed of the Senator’s wives in Washington. The only woman with the exception of Mrs. Grimwood who has received the Royal Red Cross, is Florence Nightingale. Frank Melbourne,“the rain king,” says that his storm machine is 10x15 and is operated by a crank. Who is the Crank. ■? Gov. Hill is growing stout, and a loud chorus swells from all over the country calling Mr. Chas. A Dana’s attention to the fact. The young King of Servia is one of the best educated boys in the country, and at fifteen years old is admittedly a marvel in mathematics. : P. D. Armour is the largest individual commercial operator in the world. His transactions last year reached the enormous aggregate of $63,000,000.

Prof. Roehrig, of Palo Alto University can speak thirty languages, l but he finds them all too inexpressive when the students get up a dogfight in the class-room. The largest salary drawn at present by any diplomatist, according to foreign papers,is that of sixty thousand dollars drawn by M. Wading-! ton, French ambassador in London-i The last descendant of the Maid of Orleans, according to foreign papers died recently in France. He was an! inspector in the commissary department of the army. Senator Harris, of Tennessee, is accounted the best parliamentarian in Congress. He is the oldest living Congressman, and is liable to stay in the Senate as long as he desires. New Hampshire lays claim to the oldest living college graduate in A. A. Parker of Fitzwilliam. He was graduated at the University of Vermont in 1814, and will be 100 years old if he lives until October 8.. The Czar is one of the few living banqueters, it is said, who can “drink a toast” according to the old style, swallowing the toasted applej liquor and all from the brimming cup. Miss Mary Proctor, daughter of the late Richard A. Proctor, has apr peared in the newspaper field as a contributor of scientific articles,, somewhat after the style of the exAstcouomer RoyalL. ' i