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

PEOPLE.

Captain W. G. Kidd is conductor on the accommodation train running between Nashville, Tenn., and Pulaski, and has held the position since 1857. All this time he has never missed a trip; never been reprimanded, and has never been reported to the company. Captain Kidd is seventy-two years of age, but in activity is fully thirty years younger. Governor James H. Budd, of California, walks in his sleep. He has been a somnambulist since boyhood. Among his friends “the governor” is very free in relating the deeds he has done in his walks abroad. His eerie tendency has become a joke to him, but he doesn’t take chances on doing a somnambulistic turn at an inappropriate moment. •Mr. Gladstone at one time had a beautiful tenor voice and was much given to ballad singing. His favorite song was “My Pretty Jane,” though he was not the Christy minstrel style of sinning when Mrs. Gladstone would join in with him. Prince Bismarck has a curious superstition in connection with the number three. He has served three German Emperors, he has fought in three wars, he has signed three treaties of peace, he arranged the meeting of the three Emperors and established a triple alliance. Sir Alexander Mackenzie, presidentof the Roval Academy of Music, who received knighthood on New Year’s day, is thesixteenth musician whom the queen has knighted. The first was Sir Henry Bishop, in 1842. Col. Seward Cary, the Buffalo millionaire and amateur whip who bought the! coach Vivid, exhibited at the world’s fair, has arranged to run it between Buffalo and Niagara Falls next summer as a public coach. Alexandre Dumas says that he has outliyed the taste for most things that money can procure. The chief pleasure of bis life now is meditation, which he indulges by taking long walks in the forest of Marly. M. Dumas is now a white-haired old man, but vigorous. He lives with his invalid wife, at his country place, near Marly.