Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1890 — Personal Paragraphs. [ARTICLE]

Personal Paragraphs.

Jerry Simpson, the sockless Congressman from Kansas, owns a farm of 600 acres, and has 80 in wheat. Mr. Gladstone’s nephew, Sir John Gladstone, owns a distillery at Fasque which produces 80,000 gallons of whisky annually. Senator Sawyer of Wisconsin will retire from public life at the expiration of his present term in 1893. He will then be 77 years old. P. P. Shillaber (“Mrs. Partington”) sent his old friend Col. Clapp of the Boston Journal his own obituary over a year ago, leaving only the date of his death to be inserted. Sidney Ann Wilhite, of Sedalia, Mo., is 106 years old, weight 250 pounds, and has not seen a well day for forty years. In her youth she was a slave to George Boone, a brother to Daniel Boone. Dr. KoCh will celebrate his 47th birthday Dec. 11. and it is expected the occasion will be improved to give the learned professor both an official and popular recognition of his great services to humanity. Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts, who lives now in Spencer House, London, is said to receive as many offers of marriage as any widow in the British metropolis. She has the entire income of the $8,000,000 estate, now very much increased, left by her husband. Senator-elect Gordon, at the battle of Seven Pines, received three bullet wounds, and at Antietam he got two bullets In the leg, one in the arm, one in the shoulder, and one in the right cheek. He also had a horse killed under him, the butt of his pistol smashed, his canteen pierced, ahd’his coat torn with bullets. Kate Field once delivered a lecture In New York of such interminable length that many of the audience left before its close. This so annoyed the fair lecturer that she ordered the janitor to lock the doors. Last Sunday Miss Kate lectured to the inmates of the Ohio penitentiary, and not a man left the room while she was talking. According to superstition corpse candles are no other than human souls dancing over the graves where their bodies lie, or the souls of dead relatives ooming to fetch those who are to rejoin them.