Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1895 — PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Krupp, the German gun manufacturer, has a fortune estimated at $2,000 - 000. Lord Russell was a member of the reporters’ gallery before he had a seat in the House of Commons. Lord Chief Justice Russell of England has decided that gambling in the rise and fall of stocks is not gambling. The sole surviving member of Yale’s class of 1822 fs said to be Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher, a brother of Henry Ward Beecher. He is nearly 92 years old. There is a project to erect in Boston an equestrian statue to General Joe Hooker, and a group of statues of Generals Grant, Sherman and Sheridan. Alma Tadema spends about four months on one<of his more finished pictures. To one that he thinks likely to be a masterpiece he is willing to give as many years. The Marquis of Downshire is the wealthiest Irish peer. His estate in that country totals 114,021 acres, with a revenue of $400,000 a year. His English estates add $25,000 to this amount Prince Bismarck recently said to a visitor that he had enly one serious complaint to make against old age, and that was that he had been obliged of late to abstain almost entirely from tobacco. Two years’ time will be needed in whleh to complete the decoration of the new Congressional library at Washington, and the work will be In the hands of a commission headed by John La Farge.