Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1893 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Frank Lenz, the ’round-the-world bicyclist, came within an ace of being killed in China by natives armed with hoes and rakes. Ex-Senator Ingalls had a remarkable way of preparing his speeches, according to Frederick Haig, formerlv his private secretary. He first dictated a speech very rapidly. Then he dictated another and altogether new speech .oh the same subject, and taking the typewritten copies of both speeches, he would cut, paste, erase and interline until he had made one symmetrical and harmonious address out of the two. Not all blood is thicker than water. A cousin of Herbert Spencer lives in San Francisco and pursues the peaceful occupation of selling paper, and stationery as a clerk in a little store. His name is Moira Spencer, and he is seventy years old, but he has not yet read any of his famous Busin's