Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1892 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

There are 1,316 millionaires in New York City. —Carl Schurz has built himself a pretty summer cottage at Lake George, ; . , J". William M, Rise, of New York City, recently gave $350,000 to found a college at Houston, Texas. Count Crispiy the ex-premier of Italy, is in Rome undergoing an operation for cataract of his right eye. Four living-ex-Governors of Massachusetts were born in 1818—Boutwell, Claflin, Rice and Butler. , N. J. Arbeelv, an interpreter in the employ of the government on Ellis Island, speaks fifteen languages. Lord Randolph Churchill is re 1 - ferred to nowadays in England as “a man with a brilliant future behind him. ” William J. Stone, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Missouri, is a lawyer by profession, and 44 years of age. There is no better horsewoman in Austria than the Empress, and nobody Who iOnore careful of the steed she mounts or more attentive to its training and treatment. Benjamin L. Cohen, the latest dition to the ranks of Jewish legislators in Great Britain, is a wealthy London banker. If Mr. Astor were to try to keep pace with his income by counting it in silver quarters, he’d be a jibbering idiot in a week’s time. Seven of the fifteen Revolutionary widows in the United States live in one Tennessee pension district and four of them bear the good old name of Nancy.

One of the largest ranches in the world is owned by a woman, Mrs. Richard King. It lies about fortyfive miles south of Corpus Christi, Tex., and contains 700,000 acres. The Shah of Persia has left Teheran for bis annual sojourn at his summer palace, accompanied by a retinue of 300 wives, and regiments of Infantry, cavalry and artillery. Henry M. Stanley has become so angered by the flippant allusions in the Amerioan newspapers tohis Tate canvass that he declares that he will never set foot in the United States again. Gounod, the composer, is an eccentric individual, and will only work at his own time and to order. It is said that he has twelve unfinished operas lying in his manuscript drawer. The venerable Baroness BurdettCoutts is as active as ever in her labors of philanthropy, and her kindly hand is seen in many of the newer charities which are springing up in England. The class of ’53 at Yale includes Andrew D. White, Wayne McVeagh, Randall Gibson, Edrpund, C. Stedman. Isaac H. Bromley, Charlon T. Lewis, George W. Smalley and Judge Shiras. Mrs. Cruger’s pen-name of “Julien Gordon” finds a contrast in Mrs. Crrigs’s “John Oliver Hobbes." Still there are no hobnails in the style of sither of these gifted Americans. Watson R. Sperry the newly appointed Minister to Persia, is about 15 years old and a graduate of Yale class of ’7l. He is the controlling stockholder in the Wilmington, Del., Morning News.

Rev. Charles F. Hoffman, rector of All Angels’ Church of New York, has just given $25,000 to St. Stephen’s College, Annandale, N. Y., which makes $175,000 in all that he has given this institution. Mrs. Mackay has again been surprising London with her display of diamonds, and one critic eauF that 3he showed more really fine stones at one time than could bn seen in all the shop windows on Regent street. Jules Massenet is regarded by many people as* the most popular musician in Paris. An American acquaintance describes him as talklag .faster .anA display ing.mor* e n» s . gy than any other man in the French capital. A woman bridge tender is a novelty in Chicago. Mrs. David Power, whose husband died and left to her care and support three children, has been given the position at the Adams street bridge formerly held by her hu3band. The wife of the new Secretary of State, Mrs. John Foster, is a woman eminently qualified to fill her new place with dignity. She has had much experience in the most distinguished circles of Washington society, and also in the most formal and brilliant courts of Europeduring her long residence abroad. From an uncle well known in educational work Mrs. Foster received a thorough classical training at a time when few women were permitted to follow collegiate study. She takes a deep interest in the Canadian subject, and translates from the Canadian papers printed in French everything of importance printed on this topic for the benefit of her husband, to whom the language is not familiar.