Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1893 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Gov. Cleaves, of Maine selected three of the handsomest men in his town to be members of his staff. V William Lloyd Garrison’s statue in bronze of colossal size, will be unveiled in Newburyport next Fourth of July. Joe Jefferson is sixty-three years old but in good' health, Like old Rip’s last drink, the added years “don’t count..’’ - Andrew Carnegie is passing a few weeks around Nice, wnile the men whose labor did sq much to make him rich are passing theirs around the free soup missions at Homestead. Talazae, the French tenor, who won fame and a snug little fortune in comic opera, died a short time ago at Chatuu, France. He was a native of Bordeaux and forty years of age. QThe case of the Rev. Joseph Best, of Hamilton, Ont., affords further proof that there is little in a name. The Rev. Joe’s piety revolted at the idea of permiting a servant to wash potatoes on Sunday, and he debated the matter so forcefully with Mrs. -Best that he was sent to prison for two months for assault and battery. The late Prince Lucien Bonapart wanted to give his large and valuable library to the British Museum, but he wished it kept distinct from other books in the institution This condition could not be complied with and hence the museum did not receive the legacy. As soon as the library is properly catalogued it will be offered for sale.