Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1892 — PEOFLE. [ARTICLE]

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' A Miss Wfdlop has been engaged | as teacher id .'a Kansas town, [ Mr. Blaine will not go to Europe : next winter, but may travel in the South. i Col. Taliafero, the Alabama legal and pohticgl celebrity, is six feet and six inches tall. " : Gen. Bntler’s book, it is said, has not proved a veritable gold mine to the author. '^ The youngest man in the new Brit* ish House of Commons is twenty* two years old, the oldest ninety. ;Mr, Hardy has chosen as a title" for his next romance “The Pursuit of the Well Beloved." Charlemagne Koehler, formerly a well known actor in Booth’s company, has decided to become a clergyman. Mr. Oakley Rhinelander, of New York, is said to own tbe finest collection of genuine antique armor in the United States. Francis H. Root, who died in Buffalo a few days ago, left $50,000 to found a mathematical professorship in Syracuse University. Miss Sarah Pollard owns a half-* lection of land in Polk county, Mi am, which she works without any help except in the harvest season. A French prince advertises that

“the whole guaranteed by authentic f archments of the reign of Henry Dreker, the Vienna brewer, is reputed to be worth $40,000,000, and to be increasing his fortune at the rate of $2,000,000 a year out of the profits of his business. When Mrs. Felton takes the stump, which she will do shortly, she Will be the first Georgia woman that hns attempted the feat of making political campaign speeches. Senator Dawes, of Massachusetts, once had an opportunity to take stock in the Bell Telephone Company that would have made fiim a millionaire had he acoepted it John McDarby, of Salmon Falls, Mass., has double teeth all around and a stomach which doesn’t rebel when he chews aud swallows glass, stones and other indigestibles.

Boston expects to have a replica of a Columbus statue that has just been cast in Chicopee, Mass., for San Domingo. The Italians are expected to subscribe at least $5,000. Prof. Brice has revised the whole ol his “American Commonwealth" and has added several entirely new chapters. It will probably bo published next month in its new form. Probably the oldest newspaper man in active service in Ohio is William F. Cornly, night editor of the Dayton Journal. Although 83 years of age he is said to be as sprv as a nian of 30. Levi Ashenfelter, of Gheyene, Wyo., who received u pension of $8 a month, has asked to have its payment stooped because the injuries which he received in the war give him no further trouble.

Charlotto M. Yonge, though 79 years old, is one of the most popular woman writers in England. She writes regularly, except on Sundays, from 9 in the morning till 1 o’clock and again from 6 to 7. Only two medals have been granted to women by the Royal Geographical Society of England— one of Lady Franklin in memory of her husband’s discoveries, the other to Mrs. Mary Somerville. The Empress Frederick is hard at work on the memoir of her husband. In this labor of love she is aided by her son. Emperor William and by Queen Victoria, whom she is to visit in Englaud very soon. Charles T. Yerkes, the Chicago street railway maguate, has bought Property in New York, corner of iftn avenue and Sixty-eighth street, on which be proposes to build a handsome $500,000 residence. Rudyard Kipling's earnings are said to have been deposited in the New Oriental Bank, which recently suspended; and the writer was so troubled over it that he abandoned his trip to Samoe. , Lady Scott, mother of Countess Russell, is bankrupt, aud says that her financial troubles are due to the * loss of her income by the marriage of her daughters, on whom her husband’s been settled. John Jacob Astor is the inventor of an automatic road sweeper, oni which he has taken out a patent, and which, it is claimed, will be of great service in clearing roads of dust and other obstructions. Joe Jefferson, Lawrenco Bqrrett and Clara Morris (as a beginner) were members of John Ellsler’s stock company in the early days of the old Cleveland (Ohio) Academy of Music, which was destroyed by firo recently. Representative W. C. P. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, has decided to< give up his house in Washington andi make Lexington his home again as far as possible. This is a result of his wife’s recent death, and in accordance with his daughter’s wishes. Miss Elia Ewing, of Scotland Co., Mo., is a coy dqmsel of 18 summers who measures 8 feet 2 inches in S’ ' ht and is still growing. She is to be retiring in disposition,but exhibits quite an amouftt of exuberant girlishness among her intimate friends. The marriage of Helene Boulanger second daughter of “le brnv general," to M. Paul Auguez de Sachy, was celebrated in tbe most quiet manner at the Cathedral of Versailles, in contrast to the wedding of her younger sister, who married M. Driant in 1888. Mrs. Arthur Wilson, of baccarat scandal fame, invited this year, for the Doncaster race week, a house party comprising all the names, save that of the Prince of Wales and Sir Gordon Cumming, which were associated in the cause celebre which led to the social ruin of the latter. Senator Gorman is a practical and prosperous farmer. He has one of tbe best regulated farms in Maryland, containing 600 acres ; and his neighbors say he makes it seif-sup •< mg is a side issue. '. - ?--* '-yyir v rj vr- ft