Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1895 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Prince Swengesletcheff of Russia has come to this country to study our prison system. A good many so-called ponces get inside information Of our prisons. > Simon Bolivar, the South American patriot, was a little man, only five feet four inches in bight. He never smoked, but was fond of dancing and lolling in a hammock. The lot on which the Blaine mansion in Washington stands was owned at one time by Henry Clay. He traded it to Commodore Rogers for an Andalusian jackass, one of four animals of the kind brought to the United States by the Commodore. Mr. Clay lost the jackass at the card table, but subsequently regained possession of it and sen t it to Virginia, where it became the ancestor of a strain of mules famous to this day. The dwelling house itself was built by Commodore Rodgers. Albert Chevalier, the London character singer, has hitherto resolutely refused all offers to his.songs in a private house. When Lord Rothschild offered him 50 guineas to sing a couple of ditties in his drawing room he declined, and even when Princess Louise sent a special messenger to-endeavor to secure liis services for a party at Kensington Palace he felt bound to excuse himself. Judge Geiger, a Kansas official in Phillipa county, . sentenced his son-in-law to eighteen months in the Deniteutiary for burglary recently-