Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1892 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Evangelist Moody is in London. Lord Rosebery suffers from insomnia. Pauline Lucca is teaching girls to sing at Ischle, in Bohemia. Wilhemine Hensel, a relative ol Mendelssohn, and a woman of some repute as a poet,celebrated her ninetieth birthday at Potsdam a few days ago. Mr. Rudyard Kipling, It is announced, will probably make his permanent home in Gothom, which he characterized os “a long, nauseous pig trough." The queen expects to abolish her stag hounds next spring, doubtless to the delight of the British taxpayer, for they have cost the natiou $50,000 a year. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who will arrive at their Newport cottage this week, have announced their intention of remaining there uutil Thanksgiving. & Prof. W. G. Sumner, of Yale, the well known political economist, will not return to New Haven this fall as tie first intended, but will remain in Europe uutil midwinter. Prof. Henry Preserved Smith, of the Lane Theological Seminary, is to be tried fore heresy by the Cincinnati Presbytery next* month. The vote stood 42 to 16 in favor of prosecution. Robert T. Lincoln, the United States Minister to Great Britain, will sail for the United states this week return with Mrs- Lincoln in November.

The veteran member of the next Maine Legislature will be William Dickey, of Fort Kent, now 81 years of age. He has served thirteen terms in the Legislature, having beon first elected in 1842. There is one form of inheritance that fewjpeople enjoy, and that is the fruits of one s father’s books. One lucky man is Dumas, who gets about SIO,OOO a year from his great father’s uovels. The memento vandals have commenced already to depoil the grave of Whittier. So great has been the destruction of the flowers that a special policeman has been placed to guard the grave. ‘ Chief Arthur says that during the twenty-eight years of its association life, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has distributed $3,000,000 to the widows and fatru--ttss* of deceased members. . Miss Mary E. Wilkins, the novelist, is said to write a thousand words—no more, no less—every day. Sometimes when the spirit of imagination is especially fiery she does this much within an hour. The Rothsobilds own five chateaux at Femeres, fifty miles south of Paris, and here they go for a good time in the summer, all together, often, and as sociable a family as one may find in a long journey. The death of the Duke of Suther* land leaves a vacant Garter, and the struggle for it has already begun. The late duke had no less than seven titles of nobility, being six times a peer of the realm and a baronet.