Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1895 — PERTINENT PERSONALS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PERTINENT PERSONALS

Therou Clapp and Miss Emma Beehtol, of Wabash, Ind., have just been married after an uninterrupted courtship of thirtyone years. Lady Beresford proceeded in the most business-like manner and didn’t pay a penny on her new husband until after the goods had been delivered. Robert Lebaudv has subscribed 1,000 francs toward the prizes for the Bor-deati-Pnris and back horseless ..carriage race, which will take place on June if and following days. Rev. Dr. William Gregg, professor in Knox College, Toronto, since 1872, and.a well-known loader in the Presbyterian Church, has resigned the professorship on account of old age. < Major Pond says his offer of $3,000 a night for Mark Twain, which has been standing for five years, still holds good. Twain has more calls to lecture than any other American citizen. Robert Halstead, a son of Murat Halstead, has been appointed managing editor of the Fourth Estate, Mr. Birmingham’s lively “newspaper for newspapermen,” in place of F. H. Lancaster, resigned. The last miller of Dee is dead, bqt the Chester town council has voted to buv and preserve the mills, in order to control the flow of the stream. The original grant of the mills was made by King Edward VI. Albert George Sandeinan has been elected to the responsible position of governor of the Bank of England. He had previously been a director of the bank formally years, and also a director in mauv financial institutions and insurance companies. Pope Leo XIII.’s hands are nearly useless and cause him much suffering. When he writes he must hold his right wrist with his left hand, and what he! writes is almost illegible. This is not due to. age, but to an attack of ague twenty-fiv« years ago, when he was bishop of Perugix