Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1892 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Queen Victory has altogether taken 447 agricultural prizes. No British sovereign has vetoed a parliamentary bill during the past 185 years. Paul Bourget, the distinguished literary rival of Dumas, was once a Parisian reporter. At the age of 18 Maurice Barrymore. the actor, was amateur chatnpiou pugilist of England.

Dr. Parkhurstjwas re-elected president of the New York Society for the Prevention of Crime. Guy de Maupassant, the famous French story writer, is no longer confined in a lunatic asylum. Paul B. Du Cbillu says that while he was in Africa he had 22,000 op port-unities to marry and declined them all. The Emperor of Germany has ordered that a bronze medal be struck to commemorate the Wittenberg -festival. * Louis Xavier, the Parisian sculptor, has been telling a St. Louis reporter that the feet of American women are too small. Prof. Marshall tells us that the oak in a general way requires to grow from 120 to 200 yqars before it is fit to cut for large timber. Several women in New York are succeding in the real estate business, and two are regular members of the Exchange. Bishop Phillips Brooks strongly condemns the holding of secret sessions of religious conventions as unAmerican and un-Christianlike.

Collecting old China is Miss Braddon’s hobby, and in her house at Richmond, near London, she has a series of well stocked china cabinets. Mr. Gladstone says that thefour authors who have had the greatest influence in the forrrfatkm of his mind are Dante, Aristotle, Bishop Butler and St. Augustine. —— Pasteur, they say, is so deeply absorbed in his professional work that he forgot his wedding day aod had to be hunted up in a hospital by the bride’s relatives on that festal occasion. Pope Leo is a poet of the Virgilian school. Tie writes in Latin verse with great facility and a volume of his poems in that language is expected to be made public shortly. “ Mrs. Priscilla Scroggins, of Hall eouqtjyGa. v is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Mabry, ” is a society item of the local paper of that county. iaYls years old Anri her daughter 87. The resident medical officer of the fine Woman’s Hospital in Melbourne is Dr. Margaret White, a lady graduate, who was unanimously selected for the position by tbe board of managers.

Redfield Proctor feels as if he was sitting upon velvet. Vermont has elected him to fill out the unexpired term of Senator Edmunds and the next regular term, which will carry him over until 1899. Rear Admiral Frederick Stephenson, C. aide to the Prince of Wales, has been appointed to succeed Rear Admiral C. F. Hotham, C. 8., as commander-in-chief on the Pacific station. An essay written by Robespierre, ,in a competition for a prize in 1785, has just been discovered in luanuscript at a paper mill. The subject is crime, and the contest was invited by the Amiens Academy. Two vacancies in the French Academy have been caused by the death of Maurier and Renan, and now- is the chance of a lifetime for M. Zola, who was defeated by Pierre Loti for a seat some time ago. The Queen of Roumania is a successful lecturer, as learned as eloquent, but she only goes upon the platform in the privacy of her palace where the young ladies of the best families are her audiences. Mrs. McKee, President Harrison’s daughter, will remain at the White House, presiding in her mother’s stead. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Harrison and their little daughter will also remain lit the White House.

Prof. A. D. Hopkins, of the West Virginia experiment station, has arrived from Europe with a bug, which he thinks will destroy the pine tree beetle that has so' greatly damaged the West Virginia forests. Emma Juch’s blonde tresses have impressed Boston much as Paderewski's remarkable shock of hair did the wijole country last year,although they'lack the picturesque , extravagance of that genius’s locks. She—l saw somebody this morning for whom you have great admiration. He —You did, eh? You must have looked in the glass. There is some excitement in Dougherty county, Georgia, over an alleged gold find. T. T. Pierson, of East Dougherty, in digging a well found what appeared to be a gold, nugget, and he believes there are more of them.