Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1891 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Miss Anna Dickinson has apparently recovered her sanity. Carmen Sylva loves high color and writes her poems in red ink. Mayor A. C. Chapin, of Brooklyn N. Y. is seriously ill with remittent fever. Churles Dudley Warner is enjoying the saline baths at Mariedbad, Bohemia. — Mrs. Langtry’s 5,000-acre traot on the Pacific slope has increased tenfold in value. Henery Watterson has received the degree of doctor of laws .from the University of the South. Zelie de Lussan has created quite a sensation in London by her interpretation of Carmen. The Countess Braniclia, of Poland, owns what are said to be the finest sapphires in the world. Dr. Fray, the Afghan Ameer’s physician,reports that forty feet.of snow fell at Cabul last winter. Mme. Ida de Gutmann is considered the most fashionable woman in the gay Australian capital. □The Duke of Cambridge, comman-der-in-cheif of her majesty’s army, is known as “Umbrella George.” Sir Edwin Arnold is under contract to lecture fifty times in this country, beginning November 1 in New York. Perterze Zrnchzizkowskelowski is a cabinetmaker of Buffalo, N. Y. He occasionalyl uses his name for a saw. Austin Dobson, the poet, is likely to visit the United States this autumn and give a series of reading from his own works. Rev. Mr. Spurgeon is reported to be gradually sinking. It was thought that he was on the road to recovery, but bis illness has taken a turn for the worse. Norwegians have presented Emfieror William with a jag de.. schloss. tis not, as might be imagined,a tun of wine; but a river craft that is popular in Norway. Col, George B. McClellan,treasurer of the Brooklyn Bridge Company, is said to be all the time growing more like his distinguished father in appearance and manner. Mr. Frederick K. Rindge, of Cambridge, Mass., has within the last three years given to charitable, religious and i municipal institutions more than $3,000,000. He inherited his money. Robert Garret, the ex-railroad magnate, is recovering his health, and with it his mind and his capacity for business. For two or three years he was unable to transact any business.

Lady Belle Bilton LClancarty is getting ready to be presented to the queen. Whether the queen is getting ready to receive the dimpled ana diamond-spangled Lady B. B. Clancarty is notoffieially known. Secretary Bayard’s daughter the Countess Lewenhaupt, intends to pass the fall and possibly the winter m Sweden. It is not improbable that she will make her permanent home iu King Oscar’s kingdom. Moritx Moskowsks has finished a new opera entitled “Boabdil,’“which will be produced next fall in Berlin. Karl Wistkowski has written the libretto for the work, the scene of which is laid in Spain. If we are to judge from the representations made recently by representatives before the State Board of Tap Commissioners the railroads of Indiana are about the poorest property one could possess. We prefer to accept the statements of the railroad advertisements, however, and will continue to travel as opportunity offers with no doubt of our getting to our destination safely and quickly.