Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1891 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Queen Victoria has prohibited smoking in Windsor C astle. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone have determined to pass the winter in Florence. Abraham Lincoln was the first President to issue a Thanksgiving proclamation. v ‘Ex-Gov. Moorehouse, of Missouri, , was the third ex-Governor of that State to die by his own hands. Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee are room-mates at the Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. Sixty-three students are now said to be working their way through Yale College and paying all their expenses. Mrs. T. N. Egery, of Bangor, is said to be the richest woman in Maine. The Bar Harbor Tourist ..rates her at $4,000,000. Senator Vance, of North Carolina, is in Rome with his family. He returns to the United States at ths i nd of October. Tasker Polk, of North Carolina, a . n phew of President Polk, is now ths n irest of kin surviving his distinguished relative. A Bold Esporlmantor. » A scientific person out in Indiana is trying to solidify natural gas, and it is hoped he may succeed. Being able to dump your natural gas in the coal bin in the cellar, preparatory to carrying it upstairs in a basket for use, will certainlj’ be a great convenience, and would revolutionize the lighting ana healing business. There is a chance though, that it will be hard on the experimenter, unless he is making his experiments through a long distance telephone, or something like that. Natural gas is an impulsive sort of thing, and dosen’t like to bo hampered. It may also object to going into a basket