Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1893 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Mr. Ruskin has for the past seven years been receiving £4,000 a year as his share of the profits of his works. This is spite of the fact that his books are so costly us to be out of the reach of any but the rich. GeorgeGuess.to whom a monument | is soon to be erected in Indian.TerI ritory, was the Cadmus of the Cher- ! okees, so to speak, for he invented an alphabet for their use, and in that way distinguished themsabove other American Indians. Professor Williams, of the Johns Hopkins University, says the practice of hazing at college is an ancient one. He came across an old rule at 1 Heidelberg University, where he studied, printed in 14T-JO. forbidding the practice by the old students or shaving the heads of the new students and filling their ears with wax. A youthful character of Bernardstou, Mass., is Arnold Scott, a blind letter carrier, sixtv-seven years old, whose eyesight fras lost forty-six years ago. He has a long route, which he traverses twiee a day, and rarely makes a mistake in the delivery of letters. He walks confidently in summer but the snow troubles him soniewhat in vHrrter. knowledge of the neighborhood’is saidT to be perfect, apd he has never been #*