Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1895 — PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

I’liil A. i’euua. \yho succeeds John McBride as pt-csitl at of th. United Aline \\ or!: era of A met xt, is ts years old, a native •>!'• England and a resident of Linton, Ltd. Health Officer i.eiuarest. of Cincinnati, bears an extraordinary resemblance to the 1. ! ■ ("e ver A. Arthur. Re lots is. . gray hair and4s inclined to emh< npwi.it. itr. 1 1,,>.: eli. \\ i11;,>..n ion, of the Missouri i-a'.it.eat jury, at Jefferson City, vaoe uiied the 2,2uu inmates of that lnsiiime>a, three days teeing required for tile purpose. $o!:'- Lev.', a quarter-breed Indian now lie.,::, in Oil Airings, I. T„ is said to ha . • ••••: 'brute 1 500 w eddings in the days wimn tin* territory was a Gretna Green for i ar ’ey States. Tilts is the age of youthful potentates. Alfonso. King of Spain, is s years old; the <j'.i .a of the Netherlands, 14; the King » i Si'tvia, IS; the kliedive, 20; the i hi:; •• • Emperor, 2d: the czar, 2(>. HatvihiM-a. the famous Babylonian außr>rit.> i n cuneiform inscriptions, was not a :.i'adu;;!-' of any college or univ.'-my. His scholastic education was derived i>oiu a small institution at r.tlh.g, a small town in England. Kcv. Eaiiiuc-Baving-Gould, t-lie author of the popular hymn, “Onward, Christian ■ o'd ers." is at once a country parson, a country squire, a lord of the manor, a sermon writer, a student of comparative theology, a popular novelist; and a p/iet. Richard It sidick, a colored man of Pittsburg, it is said, was worn in 1705. His grandfather was a soldier of the revolution, and won freedom for himself and family in the war of independence. They were registered as free negroes in the court house at Itichmond, Ya.. July 4, 1777. The Boatman Manual Training School at New Haven has received a : gift/of apparatus from General Edwin S. Greeley, of New York. It-conslsts of galvanometers, rheostats and other articles used in electrical experimentation and A measurement. They are valued at several thousand dollars. A prosperous Philadelphia hanker was noticed by several friends a few days ago on a suburban train deeply absorbed in a large tablq of figures in a newspaper. Every now and then the banker made some memoranda in a small note book, a circumstance which led the watchers to believe some important financial deal was in progress. Finally, one more intrepid than the others approached the financier and begged to be let into the secret of the figures. With a smile the banker handed over the mysterious table, which proved to be the league baseball schedule.

Samuel Johnson was called Blinking Sam, fretim his shortness of vision; the Bolt Court Philosopher, from his place of residence; the Classic Rambler, from his leading work of fiction. He was also called the Blaspheming Doctor, tbp Cerberus of Literature, the Colossus of English Philosophy, the Giant of Literature*, the Great. Bear, the Great Cham, the incomprehensible Holofernos, the Learned Attila, the Leviathan, the Literary Anvil, the Literary Gutter, the Literary Cmossus, the Literary W hale, Pomposo, the Respectable Hotter,- 'ot, Surly Bam, Urso Major, and many otljyr nicknames.