Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1893 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Lew Wallace’s next novel is due in May. Senator Quay has purchased a lot in Washington for $54,450, and will build a residence to cost twice as llllk'll. A ' UiiU Justice Harlan is receiving, social honors in London. The Bering Sea arbitration court meets tn Paris February 23, and will then adjourn for one months

John Quincy Adams was elected President in 1825 by the House of Representatives because he received the support of the Clay men there, and when Adams became President he made Clay Secretary of State. But Clay did not become President. Bill Nve proposes to write a history of the United States. “It will contain a few facts,” he says, “as it to keep them out, but there will be only enough for a spinal column. It will be the first real book I have written.” Professor Goldwin Smith, the brainy, outspoken Canadian who is bringing down on his head the vituperative attacks of the Toronto newspapers on account of his hearty declaration in favor of a tall, lean, dyspeptic-looking man. Professor Smith is rather a recluse when at home. He lives in an oldfashioned Canadian castle at the head of Simcoe street, Toronto, and it is in one of the back rooms of that house where his analytical and highly polished literary gems first see the light. Professor Smith is thoroughly impervious to the harsh, uncalleded for and often brutal criticisms of the Canadian press. He never takes a stand on grave questions of the day without first satisfying himself that he is right. Then he goes ahead with his powerful arguments. He is a patriot to the core. Lovers of Robert Burns —and who is not enrolled among them —should have great respect for Captain William R. Smith, a Scotchman who for forty years has been superintendent of the National Botanic Garden, at Washington, and President of the Society of American Florists. Not only can he quote every line of Burns, but he has (>SO editions of the beloved poet, a collection only excelled by those at Glasgow and the British Museum. One of his curios is a plaster cast of Burns, taken in 1884, when the Burns mausoleum was opened to receive the body of his wife. Captain Smith’s treasures are in a little vine-clad lodge in the Botanic Garden.