Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — PERSONAL Tidbirs [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL Tidbirs

The great-grandson of Robert Burns, the poet, is living in poverty in Edinburg. The only game tl&t the Pope ihdulges in is that of chess. / He is said to be a very skillful player. - Gen. Cassius M. Clay has concluded tp •end his young wife to school instead of having a governess for her. Lady Randolph Churchill, according to gossip, is tattooed with a snake around one arm. The operation took place during her visit to India. In spite of cold weather Queen Victoria takes many drives about ■Balmoral, much - to the surprise of those who imagine that her Majesty is in feeble health. Benreaud/the French artist, makes the sketches for his famous genre paintings "of Parisian .life from the windows of a cab drawn up by the (curbstone. Henry Irvingjias commissioned Thomas Nast to paint nil oil of Shakspeare's bust now in the room of the old house at Strat-ford-on-Avon in which the poet was born. Francisco Bazaine, a sou of the groat Marshal, died in Cuba recently of illness contracted in the campaign against the patriotic He was a young officer in the Spanish expeditionary army. Elisha I*. Ferry, the first Governor of k the State of Washington, died at Seattle on Monday. He had also been twice Governor of Washington Territory l)3 - appointment of President Grant. Some of the friends of Gov, Atkinaon, of Georgia, have presented a handsome gold watch eachjof Miss Sawyer and Miss Burton, thetwwyoung women who nursed him through his recent dangerous illness. The British Medical Journal says that the lines inscribed on Huxley’s tprnbstone, and quoted in the last number of Science, are part of a poem by Mrs. Huxley, and were used as Huxley’s epitaph at bin own request. Joseph Jefferson never talks politics. What his party bias may be is not generally known. He is very diplomatic in dodging all questions that tend to entrap him into an expression of opinion regarding national issues.