Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1893 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

N. C. Engberg, a Waterloo (Ore.) jeweler, has made a clock the frame- j work of which contains over a thousand pieces of wood, all grown in that vicinity. The body of James Curlin, of Trigg county, Ky. ,lies in a neglected grave, hidden by weeds. Curlin gave the county the proceeds of the sale of his slaves sixty years ago for school purposes. The railroad car evangelist, Rev. Boston Smith, is meeting with groat success in the Northwest. Mr. Smith ' was the first missionary to utilize a railway car as a chapel. The car Le now uses was built for him by John D. Rockefeller and other capitalists, and will seat one hundred .persons. The parents of Chang, the dead Chinese giant, who arc now living, are people of only ordinary size, an 4 there was nothing unusual about that of Chang till he had a brief illness in his boyhood, when the growth set in that gave him a commanding eminence as one of the human curios of the time. On the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of the building of the house at Ashfieldj Massachusetts, in which Professor Charles Eliot Norton spends his summers, one of his guests was Henry Norton, eighty-three years old, who had walked fourteen miles to attend the dinner which Professor Norton was to give on his lawn to the Farmer’s Club. The famous library of the late Mr. Skene (for many years historiographer for Scotland) has just been sold at E iinburg. It was one of the best private collections in Scotland, and remarkably rich in historical, ge lealogical ahd antiquarian works, and in Celtic literature. Mr. Skene inherited the splendid library of his father. Mr. Skene of Rubislaw, the intimate and trusted friend of Sir Walter Scott, but added very largely to it, and was himself a' very enthusiastic book-collector. x