Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1892 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

! Secretary Tracy is an expert pedestrian. . , j Senators Sawyer and Hiscock are grea£ Indian ckib swingers, j A son of Senator Peffer is running an engine at Hoisington, Kas. Cardinal Langerie, the best friend in all Europe of the colored race, is hopelessly ill. Mrs. Stanley, the wife of the great explorer, is a line»|i descendant of Oliver Cromwell. The works of Alfred de Mussett still produce an annual royalty of from 20,000 to 25,000 francs. The students of Amherst College now wear full academical costume of gown and mortar board. President Polk, *of the Farmers’ Alliance, has a beard which ought to make Peffer green with envy. John Bach McMaster, the historian has been offered the presidency of the Pennsylvania University. Jacob Seitz, Jr., of Mountville.Pa., carved an excellent likeness of each member of his family upon a cane. Oliver Ames, second oldest son of Frederick L. Ames, will build a $500,000 residence in North Easton, Mass. Though Wales is deteriorating, and even the language is dying out, there is a colony of 50,000 Welshmen in London. ~ Gov. Flower is rapidly becoming an accomplished boxer. He has trained down twenty-two [ pounds—from 240 to 218. Patti’s regular annual farewell tour of this country will be omitted next season, but, as she promises to resume in 1804, all is well. When Steve Dorsey was a student at Gberlin College he used to earn a few odd dollars by whitewashing and painting houses. 1 Mme. Danid ‘Wilson, the late President Grevy’s only daughter, is going to write her father’s life. She is a fine-lookipg young woman, popular in Parisian society. Jean de Reszke was asked to sing at the Paris Opera recently and refused because he was not paid SI,OOO. Before coming here his price used to be SSOO a night. j Garfield lacked the statesman’s 'gift of Temembering faces, and Sec(retary Foster says that after all his years in Congress he did not know more than fifty men personally. ! The most highly valued gift at the Queen of Denmark’s golden wedding was a golden crown of wheat ears | and clover bought with the pennies as 100,000 school children, j London society is somewhat startled by the circumstance that the portrait of Paderewski in the Royal Academy is the work of the Marchioness of Lome, the daughter of- the Queen. ! Celia Thaxter, the poetess, is a tall, handsome woman of 57, whose snowj white hair ripples above a dark face 'and brilliant dark eyes. She spends every winter at the Isles of Shoals. Porfirio Diaz has already been thrice elected President of Mexico, iq 1876, 1884 and 1888. He is about te be elected again, and does not hold out any encouragement to anyone to .mQ--aga-insthim-iaTBB6;—- —- Herr Lauter, manager of Krjipp’s great gun factory, is about tq start for the United States to arrange for transportation of the big guns that Herr Krupp will exhibit at the Chicago fair. ** With ex-Spealrer “Tom” Reed and Representative Tom Johnson, each astride a bicycle, Washington may now witness the Two Dromios in real life, kb far at least as twin-like adiposity is concerned. Count Caprivi tips the scale at 216 pounds, so that he is about as heavy as was Prince Bis mark after taking the Schwenninger cure. The physical resemblance between the two men is remarkable. The Emperor William is to sail his yacht, the Meteor, in the contest for the Queen's cup at Cowes next August. The Sleteor was once the celebrated’Thistle which came oveiybpfle to win the America cup. The engagement of Count Herbert von Bismarck raises a question as to what has become of the Countess Carolath Beuthen with whom he eloped in 1881 and whom he was reported ter have married4s 1877. The Sultan of Turkey suffers from , a severe nervous disorder, which at times renders him unfit to transact business, and in a less exalted personage would probably justify suspicions of temporary insanity. The Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, son of the- heir to the throne, is said to find his greatest pleasure in the useful function of running a locomotive, and/brffags his train in on time and in good order.