Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1893 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Ex-President Hayes was the first; man to receive the LL. D. degree; from Johns Hopkins. Sixteen years ago, Governor McGraw, of Washington, drove a bobtailed car in San Francisco. Now he holds the reins of the State government. Vice-President Morton has appointed Senator Gray, of Delaware, a regent of the Smithsonian institution, in the place of Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, deceased. TbhScotchmen of Denver propose to erect a SIO,OOO statue of Bobby Burns. A sculptor favorably considered is W. Grant Stevenson, of Edinburgh, who has made half a dozenstatues of the poet. The late Horace Smith, of Springfield, Mass., delighted in giving young men a helping hand, in spite of the fact that he was often deceived. It is estimated that in the last years of his life he lost $50,000 in unsecured loans to his proteges. Joseph Letoumea r a quarter-blood Indian, and Miss Estella Kincade, of Chamberlain, S. D., were marries. 1 the other day. The ceremony was performed while the couple were on » sand bar in the middle of the Missouri river, near Chamberlain. Tennyson left an estate of $250,000; Browning left personally in England worth $83,875; Victor Hugo's personal property was $160.630; Matthew Arnold had but $5,205; Lord Lytton left $366,350. It is not told how much these lamented authors earned with their pen. Senator McPhqrson. of New Jersey is indignant over the rumor tha he has boon slated for the treasury department and has himself bee: authorizing the report. He is now quoted as declaring that he has no idea whatever that Mr. Cleveland intends to pay him that honor. Dr. Pierson, Spurgeon’s successor I in .the pulpit of the Metrojxflitan ! Tabernacle, London, told his congregation recently that the Bible which he uses in his service there contains no less than 500,000 notes by his own I hand! . At least, the Pall Mall GaI zette so reports him. He has hal the Bible ten years or more. Proftvsor Palmer of the philosophical faculty at Harvard argues against any religious to&ehing in schools, becausd the effort to give systematic instruction in religion or ethics to the young has resulted less in improving conduct than in stimulating a morbid self-consoious-ness, which he characterized as a disease. Conduct must be taught by example in school and out of school