Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1893 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Blaine believed that, nobody who writes books could write to advantage more than 1,500 words a day. Prof. W M. Flinders Petrie will hold the chair of Egyptology founded at University College, Oxford, by the will of Dr, Amelia B. Edwards. The King of Greece has a salary of $300,000, and finds it all little enough when he has to foot the bills of a stud of two hundred horses, and to pay the expenses of his royal position. Mr. Vanderbilt's gift to Yale for a dormitory is unlimited. If the proper building can be built for $400,000 all right; if not, then, if necessary, double it. The last volume of Bishop Phillips Brooks’s sermons, “The Light of the World," is dedicated “To the memory of my brother, George Brook s, who died in-the great war.” After a fruitful sojourn in Pittsburg, Francis Murphy is off again for the Pacific coast. When he returns he is promised by Andrew Carnegie and others a people’s church in Pittsburg. The work on Walt Whitman on which John Addington Symonds is engaged, will be called “A Study on Walt Whitman. ” It is announced as having to do with “the thinker and writer rather than the man.” John Leech, the caricaturist, is said to have killed the crinoline. His sketches of the adventures of the wearers of that inflated article of dress, especially the lady caught in the turnstile at the entrance of the London Exhibition, started a crusade which the leaders of fashion could not withstand. The announcement of the Duke of York’s engagement can not, it is thought, be much longer delayed, if his wife is to be Princess May, as everybody has decided. The fact that the Royal family’s long period of mourning for the late Duke of Clarence has ended, i 3 being emphasized in various ways. General Schkopp, of the German army, says: “If His Majesty draws his sword it will never return to its scabbard until his last enemy is crushed, or he, with his people, is overthrown." By such talk it is expected to frighten the Reichstag into passing the army bill. Mark Twain’s winter retreat is ihe Villa Viviani in the suburbs of Florence. When he is over his magazine work he ia desperately busy, but when idle like a lord. His crqss is rheumatism in the right shoulder. He is going to Bayreuth for the Wagner festival. Emile Zola would be able to get into the French Academy if money were a decisive footer in securing membership. He is Said to be one of the richest of authors, and to have made $400,000 from the sale of his. novels. Americans have done a great deal towards filling his coffers, and now that he is protected by out copyright law he is likely to find the dollars rolling in even faster.