Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1895 — PERSONAL Tidbits [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL Tidbits

Thompson McDaniels, a veteran of the Black Hawk war, died Friday at Kansas City, aged 90 years. Jagolkowsky is the depressing name of an anarchist recently sentenced in Europe to penal servitude for life. Albert George Sandeman, the new Governor of the Bank of England, was born in 1833. He is a wine merchant.

Li Hung Chang is said to be gaining flesh. It’s too late sot him to turn the scales in favor of China, however. The Rev. Otis Wing, the oldest Baptist minister in America, is seriously ill at his home in Newton Junction, N. H. Dr. Dwight, author of “Man and th< Glacial Period,” says that man has not been on the earth more than 8,000 years. Zola has completed.the first sketch of his novel on Rome, but the book will not be ready for publication till next January. William E. Gladstone has announced that he cannot undertake to either read or answer any letters that may be addressed to him. The Emperor of Germany, it is said, has decided to honor Bismarck by having his head stamped on the future issue of German coins. Sir William Harcourt, tne English Chancellor of the Exchequer, has gone back to the use of manuscript when delivering his speeches. Lady John Scott, who gave “Annie Laurie” to the musical world, still devotes her time to relieving the troubles of veterans of the Crimean war.

Dr. Jay W. Sever holds the position of associate director of the Yale gymnasium, but this does not prevent his being the bitterest foe that college football has. The Rev. F. J. Sawyer, a Boston Universalist, celebrated the 65th year of his ministerial life Thursday evening. He is nearly 92 years old, but does not look to be 60. Joseph Alexander, of Newburgh, N. Y., 91 years old, has voted for eighteen Presidents, and has lived under the administration of all but two, Washington and John Adams. Shenlaro Yokozuka, a Japanese student of the New York Evening High School, has been awarded the Tiffany gold medal for the greatest‘improvement in drawing from antique cysts.