Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1893 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Gen. Mahone, of Virginia, has opened an hotel at Long Branch. Gladstone is eighty-three. Paderewski and his favorite piano have arrived in this country, and will make a tour of the principal cities. Henry Shaw, who is regarded by St. Louis as the greatest benefactor, was an Englishman by birth, who made his fortune in the hardware business and retired at the age of forty. Passionately fond of flowers he established a botanical garden just outside the corporate limits of St. Louis, and there he lived in the summer time, returning to the city in the winter. He constantly improved and added to the territory of his flower-land until “Shaw’s Garden” became one of the most famous resorts for visitors in the Southwest. " Franklin Simmons has been given the task of executing the equestrian statue of General Logan, to be erected in Washington. He has submitted only a rough sketch thus far, but will now proceed to work out a me del. lowa circle wilL be the site of the statue, and bronze the material. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, says a voyager in the South Seas, conform with frank simplicity to many of the habits and fashions of the region. There is a pleasant glimpse of the pair wandering on lovely Tahiti with bare feet, and dressed in the graceful flowing garments worn by the natives. □ The English traveler, Mr. Hockhill, has again passed into Thibet from China, disguised as a Lama. He has a good mastery of the languages of the country into which he has {>enetrated once more, and it is beieved that he will fare better this time that on the former occasion, when a diet of tsamba and buttered, tea for three weeks reduced him almost to a skeleton.