Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1894 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Sir Edwin Arnold said the other day that he heartily indorsed a remark once made by Chauncev M. Depew, “Fame depends on being civil to interviewers.” The oldest member of the forty immortals is M. Legouve, who is nearly eighty-eight years of age. Paul Bourget is the youngest member, and is in his forty-second year. Dr. Virchow, it is said, has fallen into the habit of taking only three hours’ sleep out of the twenty-four. He should prescribe a spell ou the police force for himself. For over thirty years the Archbishop of Canterbury has prohibited the delivery of letters on Sunday at his country house, as he will never trouble his mind by reading one on the seventh day. A. Bauman, a capitalist of Johannesberg, South Africa, is floating an enterprise to recover $1,500,000 in sunken treasure. The, gold is contained in two iron safes which went down with the ship Birkenhead off the coast of Africa forty years ago. E. L. Harper, the Cincinnati bank wrecker, who has for some time enjoyed a delightful measure of oblivion’, is defendant in a suit just filed in Cincinnati by Irvin & Green, of Chicago, for judgment in the sum of nearly SOOO,OOO. The claim is for margins bought by Harper when he was trying to corner the Chicago wheat market.

Christopher Jarrett, of Washington, is one of the survivors of the battle of San Pasquale, Lower jCali.-„ fornia, in which a troop of American calvary belonging to General Kearney’s command was almost annihilated. Afterward he served with Walker, the filibustered where in a duel he killed Peter Vedder, one of the American adventurers. Jarrett also fought in the Federal army during the civil war. Maine has produced men of astonishing vigor and longevity, but none more notable in this way than Dr. Westbrook Farrar of Biddefoni, if the stories told about him are true. He is said to be a physician of active practice, although ninety-eight years old, and, still more remarkable, to be in the-habit of visiting his patients regularly on a bicycle. Hfe” attributes his exceptional vigor at this advanced age to the use of wintergreen tea, of which he is said to be an ardent advocate. Prince Roland Bonaparte, who is now the hope of the Bonapartists, Prince Victor being a poor exile, is building a palace on the Ave nue d’lena in Paris of so splendid a kind that it will be one of the show places of the capital. Commenting on the lavish expenditure, the Paris correspondent of a London iournaksavs: “I was told what was paid for the ground per yard, but the sum is so enormous that I dare not mention it.”