Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1892 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Sued, the faster, is insane, and now In an asylum near Paris. Out in Chicago they refer to Dr. Harper, President of that new universwty, as “thq grand old watchdog of other people-’s treasuries.” The most brilliant fencer in the world is believed to be Cavaliere Eugenio Pini, who is making fencing even more fashionable in London. Chief Justice Fuller has accepted an invitation to deliver the annpal address this autumn before the Law Academy of Philadelphia- “ Miss Hannah Fairchild, of Westport, Ct., has been a church member for fifty-five years, and has not missed a single service during all that period. Lafcadio Hearn is an Irish-Greek, Max O’Rell an Irish-Frenchman and Commodore QZHiggins, after whom a famous sloop was named, was an Irish-Chilian. Queen~Vic'tona T s golden wedding presents to the King and Queen of Denmark were a marble vase nearly five feet in highland a cask of Lochnagar whisky twenty years old. George J. Gould has brought a drove of fifteen elks from Manitoba ,to his Catskill shooting preserve, where they will have SOO or 600 acres of forest and dale over which to ream.

M. Dameny has taken successive photographs of the lips of a speaker, so that on arranging them a deaf mute, able to read from the motion of the tips can undurstand them. Paderewski was surrounded by a mob of women at St. James Hall, London, the other day, and their attentions to him were so pressing that he had to be rescued by friends. Frederick Schwatka, the traveler, once experienced a temperature of 71 0 below zero in the Arctic regions, near Burk’s Great Fish River. It is said to be the coldest ever endured by man. Porficio Diaz has-already been thrice elected President of Mexico, in 1876, in 1884 and in 1888. He is about to be elected again, and does not hold out any encouragement to anv one to run in ► « ■ , . Y .. J rM. Verestchajfin, the Russian artist, has been discharged from the Pasteur Institute in Moscow with the assurance that he will suffer no further ill effects from the dog bi tes which he received some months ago. “Julien Gordon” (Mrs. Cruger( tells Mrs Field that she thinks “men do everything better than women, from bringing up children to making gowns and bonnets.” Mrs. Cruger is a very popular woman among men. - - \ The centenary celebration of the birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley will be celebrated Aug) 4, when the poet’s admirers will gather in London and make a pilgrimage to Field Palace, near Horsham, where he was born. , Whitelaw Reid ia of Scotch ancestry. His mother, Marian Whitelaw Ronalds, is a descendant in a direct line from the clan Ronald. His paternal grandfather settled in this country toward the close of the last century. Since Mr. Labouehere appended his name to a Salvation Army appeal a fortnight or more ago. th .re has been a disposition to caricaturt /him, dressed in the garb of the much abused organization which he be friended.