Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1895 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Alphonse Daudet’s son’s marriage with Victor Hugo's favorite grand J daughter, Jeanne, did not last long. They have just been divorced for incompatibility of temper after two years of married life. The late Lionel Mores, of New York City, was born and reared iti (he bouse erected by his great grand-father early in the eighteenth rentury. His grandfather anc| father also first saw the light in the srme mansion,

M. Hertz, whose name is well known in connection with the Panama scandals, began life as th? holder of German patents for the incandesent lamp,and although a German by ; birth has served a 3 a surgeon in the , French army. | Jules Verne is 78 years old, His first novel was published when ho was 35, and he has been producing them at the rate of nearly two a year ever since. Verne is very fond of English literature, and he thinks Charles Dickens the greatest of all [British novelists.