Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1893 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

The King of Portugal has the most costly crGwn in the world. The gold and jewels of which it is composed are valued at $6,500,000. F. Marion Crawford, the novelist, is visiting the family of his father-in-law, Gen Berdan, in Washington. He will probably pass the winter in that city. Professor Hermann Sauppe, who died in Goettingen, aged 84 years, a few days ago, was one of the oldest active professors in Germany. He was a famous philologist and had been connected with the University of Goettingen for forty years. He read his lectures up to the end of the summer semester. Candidate JohnE Russell, of Massachusetts, seldom does his campaigning alone. His wife accompanies him on speaking tours, attends his public meetings, gives him valuable hints as to weak points in the enemy’s harness when there is a joint debate, and hustles him into a warm overcoat and off to a hotel when the meeting is over. It is largely due to this sort of faithful care that Mr. Russell, who is not a robust man, retains sound health.

A large cross of blue sandstone, toward which Mr. George Washington Childs, of Philadelphia, gave $5,000, is to be erected at San Francisco, in honor of Sir Francis Drake and his visit to the coasts of California. The exact spot where Drake’s ship lay has never been settled. It is now proposed to place the cross in Golden Gate Park, whence it can be seen from several bays where Drake may have anchored. The cross refers especially to a service held by the chaplain of Drake’s fleet, in June, 1579, on the shores of the bay. It will be formed of huge stones, 17 feet long, 15 feet wide and 8 thick, and reach the height of 65 feet. The arms of the cross will be 50 feet above the base, and have a stretch of 22 feet. Professor Helmholtz, who has been spending a few days in New York, whence he sailed on Saturday for his home in Germany, was somewhat surprised at the cordiality with which he was received in that city. Columbia College - acted ns a sort of host for him, and on Tuesday the professors did him formal honor, while the students heard him give a brief but most interesting lecture modestly delivered upon the way in which he came to discover the ophthalmoscope. Helmholtz met Edison two or three times at Chicago und visited him at his laboratory in Orange, and says that not the least of the delightful memories which he will take back to Europe with him were the hours which he spent with this most famous of American inventors. i j