Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1893 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Dr. E. M. Hale, the climatologist, states that Bright's disease is most common in New Jersey and least frequent in Virginia. “Uncle Henry” ■ Martin.' who has been janitor of the University of Virginia for forty-live years, and who is said to trace his descent in direct line from Jefferson, its founder, can neither read nor write. The prince of all Hungarian gypsies, Ignaz Erelyi, committed suicide a few days ago in Buda-Pesth. He was one of tqemost famous violinists of his race and in his lifetime appeared in every country of Europe and in the United States. He had been ill recently, and it is supposed took his life to end his sufferings. Professoi’ Nicholas Crouch famed the world over as the author of “Kathleen Mavourneen,” was eigh-ty-Six years old on July 31. He has lived in Baltimore for a number of years, but is now in New York awaiting the opening of the fall en gagement of “Kathleen Mayoumeen ’ is one _ol the principal airs in this opera, and during its rendition Professor Crouch leads the orchestra. So fond are the Russian women ot smoking that the czar's minister of the interior has ordered the tailway officials in the empire to provide passenger trains with smoking com partments for the use of the fair sex. It is said on good authority that nearly all married woman in Russia smoke cigarettes, and that the habit has begun to obtain largely among the unmarried, with the result that smoking cars are now as much of a necessity for traveling Russian women as for men.