Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1894 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

| What is believed to be the last leti ter written by Lord Byron is published in IJarper’s Magazine for February, in connection with the sketch of “Lord Byron and the Greek Patriots.” by Rev. Dr. Henry Hayman, late headmaster of Rugby. Gen. Neal Dow has received many invitations to attend gi eat temperance meetings to be held in various parts of the world on March 20 to celebrate his ninetieth birthday, but he has declined them all in order to be present at the demonstration by the Maine W. C. T U., in the Citv Halt of Portland, Me.,-General Dow's home. Dr. Zergler, a German scientist, is of the opinion that it will be possible to predict the weather bv means of photographs of the sun far more accurately than by a study of a barometer. Circular or elliptical halos round the orb of day, he savs, indicate violent-storms especially if the halos are dark in tint or of a large diameter. Lightning and magnetic disturbances may also be expected from these signs.