Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1894 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Professor Masso, the Italian scientist. is authority for the statement that eel's blood is as poisonous as viper’s venom. The late Chief Justice John W. Slaytor, of Texas, educated himself while serving an apprenticeship in a “blacksmith shop in his native State of Kentucky, pursuing at night a course of private study and reading. Professor Scripture, of Yale, has made it his nightly practice for four years past to plug up his ears on going to bed, thus excluding the voices of the night and insuring sbund sleep. Prince Louisr of Bavaria, heir4o the crown, takes a deep personal interest in the agricultural affairs of his country.. His ideas, however, have been called “childlike.” much to his disgust. Recently he made a speech—protesting against the criticism and asserting his earnestness in all things affecting the public welfare. Some Englishmen now visiting in this country have names quite as unique as those for which Georgia has. become famous* They are Sir Ughtred K. Shuttleworth, Sir Geoffrey Phipps Hornby, Sir Nowell Salmon, Sir Redvers Buller and Sir W, Hunt-Grubbe. —New York Tribune. John I. Blair, the New Jersey millionaire, made the first dollar ol his fortune of $20,000,000 by trapping muskrats and rabbits and selling their skins. He became a clerk in a country store at the age of ten, and at seventeen he had a store ol liis own. with a cash capital of ssot and a good commercial reputation. There died in Glasgow the other day James Gilchrist, who was known as the “Scottish Stradivarius.” Gilchrist. who was sixty-two years old. was a mechanical genius. He madv’ the most difficult and delicate instruments, and was the chief aid ol Professor Pettigrew in making his models for" investigating the laws governing the flight of birds. He died a poor man, his wife often saying, “He can make everything bul money.” Captain Cox, of the schooner Thomas Richards, was reported t< Collector Shaw by the revenue ma rine officers, for not having the num, of his vessel in full on both bows The word Thomas was abbreviated The statute requires that the fui name of the vessel shall appear. Th< penalty for the offense is $lO. This fine will be imposed on the vessel In Collector Shaw when it again reache., this port. —Baltimore -Sun.