Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1894 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Mr. Brander Matthews is at work upon a novel of New York life. M. Carnot completes his term as President of the French Republic on Dec. 3. His salary for the last seven years has been 1250,000 a year, besides allowances. George Frederick Watts, the English painter who has presented his superb painting, “Love and Life,’’to the. United States, was the first of Ellen Terry’s husbands. Proctor Knott is being “mentioned” as a possible contestant for the Congressional seat of W. C. P. Breckinridge. His friends say he is not as chivalrous as Mr. Breckinridge, but that the amount of gray matter in his brain is fully as great. Mr. Lease, husband of Mrs. Lease, "has lost his job as manager of a drug store in Wichita. • Mrs. Lease owns a handsome house in a fashionable part of the city, and Mr. Lease, assisted by two elderly women servants, devotes his time to looking, after the property. According to London Truth tht cabled stories about the formation o) cataracts over Mr. Gladstone’s eyes are all bosh. The real trouble, this authority announces, is arcus senillis —a very common trouble in the case of men of Mr. Gladstone’s age, bul never extending to the lens and never destroying the sight. Instead of the time-honored “Dearly Beloved” or “Brethren” in which the pulpit has always addressed its congregation, the famous Canon Body has introduced an innovation in one of the “highest” ol English churches. He speaks to his hearers with the simple word “Gentlemen.” The change is exciting discussion and free comment. Lord Dudley recently had a half starved workingman arrested foi stealing a bucket of coal, the value of which was only sixteen cents, When the case came to trial Chief Justice Coleridge dismissed the man, considering that sixteen days in jaii before trial was punishment enough. It is this sort of thing that has in censed the common people againsl the House of Lords. At the official inquiry into the loss of the‘Kearsarge there was One incident in which Commander Hyerman figured that was not made known. It wqs the first night or the little,island. Commander Hyerman was lying on the sand fagged out with his exertions of the day. He had no covering on him and the night had grown cool. He was aroused by a sailor, who touched his cap and said: “Captain, here’s £ blanket 1 saved. It’s been dried.’ Commander Hyerman asked the sailor what he had to cover himsell with, and when* She sailor replied that the blanket was all he had, the commander said; “Keep it your self, my man, you need it quite as much as I do.” Jack entreated, but the officer was firm in refusing tic accept the cover.