Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1894 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Odd, but true, that Boston has a statue of Theodore Parker in a warehouse waiting for a w pedestal and a site. Butterworth, of Yale, who won the game for his team at Springfield, last Saturday, is the son of Ben Butterworth, of Cincinnati. W. D. Howells is said to have enough literary wbrk mapped out and contracted for the next year to assure him, with the royalties on his published books, an income of $30,000.

What can a young man of barely twenty-five years of age want with 14,000" worth of shirts? Among the liabilities of the eldest son of Sir Robert Peel, who has just become bankrupt, is an item of that amount. His debts amount to some $250,000, while his assets are practically nil. The youngest child of a Revolutionary soldier is suppposed to be ex-Judge Jeremiah Smith, an instructor in the Harvard Law School. He is fifty-six years old. His father was Judge Jeremiah Smith, of New Hampshire, who was one of the most prominent figures in the early, history of that State, and who entered the Revolutionary army at the age of 17. His son was born when he was seventy-eight years old. The present Judge Smith has been a member of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, but resigned on account of ill-health in 1874.