Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1893 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Sultan of Turkey is said tq be j an excellent pianist. He practical several hours every day, and devotes considerable time to teaching his daughter. Morsseau, the French chemist, has succeeded in making diamonds out of ordinary carbon, but they are so small as to be visible only through the microscope. Sterling Morton’s letterhead is a conventional tree standing in a conventional sward above a scroll bearing the. motto. “Plant Trees.” Bolow is “Arbor Lodge.” the name of Mr. Morton's farm and home near Nebraska City. .Colonel Smorloff, of the Russian army; is a great advocate of the use, of falcons tor carry dispatches in times of war. He has trained a number of falcons, and says that they fly four times as fast as the carrier pigeons, and are less likely to be killed by other birds. The colonel is trying {o prove to the Czar the propriety of using them for the army. A great many people in Washington fear that Mr. Cleveland unneces sarily exposed himself in delivering his dedicatory address bareheaded in a March blizzard. Mr. Cleveland is a rugged man. As a hunter and fisherman he is accustomed to expos Ure. Last November he lay in a boat all day down at Hog Island in an icy rain waiting for a chance to destroy a duck. He did not even sneeze after the exposure. Dan Larnont. who knows him well, savs that he is never troubled with colds or 'coughs. He is so rugged in health that *he could have worn a suit of

summer linen in Washington ;on Sat--unlay without; inconvenience. No man in the country can endure more or steadier labor than Mr. Cleveland. While in the Adirondack's a few years ago he offered to wager a woodman up at Paul Smith’s that he could ■-■hop more wood in six hours than >v,A man on the range. The Sultan’s latest gift to the Em. peror of,Germany consists of a complete set of Oriental furniture in ten pmefes. each of which is superbly inlaid with mother-of-pearl, on which are engraved the arms and monogram of the Sultan. His gift to the Empress was two splendid vases of great value in blue enamel and silver. He has also sent a set of die amond studs to. each of the young Princes and a fan-shaped brooch o' of diamonds, rubies and sapphires to the baby Princess. George Parsons Lathrop, In a Jong letter to the Now York Sun, pronounces the young Princess Kaiulani a humbug Hawaiian princess. He says the monarchy there Is elective or appointive, not hereditary. Mr. Lathrop was born in Hawaii. General Beauregard was onq of

the numerous Confederate commanders whose services, were sought by foreign governments after the fall of the Confederacy. In 18G6 he was tendered the command of the Roumanian army, and the Khedive twice offered him the chief generalship of the Egyptian army. All these offers General Beauregard declined. John B. Roden, a storekeeper at Birmingham, Ala,, after listening to a sermon on the evils of card playing, made a bonfire of all the cards in his store,:valued at fully S2QO. A Mr. Sharp, of Clarence, Mo., claims to have transcribed the Lord’s prayer, the golden rule, his name, address and date on a piece of paper one-half of an inch square. Mr. R. L. Gilmer, of Mt. Airy, N., C., who celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday recently, had ten invited male friends present whose ages, it is said, were 72, 79, 82, 83, BG, 87, 92, 07, 98 and 99. Richard Olney, it is said, pronounces his name as if it was spalled “Oney.”