Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — MEN AFFAIRS. [ARTICLE]

MEN AFFAIRS.

There is a probability that President Faure will shortly visit England and be a guest of the queen. Sig. Crispi, it is said, wears a shirt of chain mail, made by a Milanese armorer, when lie goes out of doors. Mr. Rudyard Kipling, it is announced, is on the point of returning to India—not to live there, however. The Rev. I’hilo IL Hurd, who died lately at Detroit, was worth only $7,000; yet he left S7OO to n faithful servant. Silver Dollar Bland announces that he is now in good health and expects tp circulate at par among his Eastern friends next month. Dr. Frederick Andros, who was the first practicing physician to locate west of the Mississippi river, has just died in Minneapolis at the age of 92. William R. Moody, a son of the evangelist, who is in chnrge of a department in Mount Hermon school, has developed considerable aptitude ns a public speaker. Gen. Wade Hninpton, who will visit Charleston, S. C., soon, will be received by a military escort, in spite of the rumor that this demonstration would be opposed. Mark Twain has signed a contract for a lecture tour around the world. He will undoubtedly come back with personal recollections of Noah’s flood and “Forty years with Moses.” The Sultan of Turkey is delighted with the success of the fine china manufactory which he installed some time ngo in his palace nt Constantinople. He is a great amateur of the ceramic art. Dr. de Bossy, of Havre, who is the dean of French physicians, and 102 years old, uses snuff regularly and drinks two largo cups of black coffee every day, besides drinking wine in moderation. Kaiser Wilhelm has forbidden the offi cers and men of the Berlin garrison to smoke in the principal streets of tho city, in consequence of irregularities in the salute offered to his majesty and the members of the royal family. render each year of increasing value, for our Indians niuFtheir ways will soon be things of a past generation. Gov. Evans, of South Carolina, who Is a rising man in Southern politics, is a few years past SO. He is n graduate of Union College at Schenectady, comes of excellent stock, and is bold, fearless, alike, and full of nervous energy.

A correspondent asks: “In view of tha recent Louisville tragedy, is it ever allowable to mnke love to n inJirriod woman?” It is tiot only allowable, but emiueutly proper; but you should marry her tlrst. ~ Russia has forked the shell game on Japan.