Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

A six months' old Kansas baby weighs forty-five pounds. The Duke of Norfolk has an Income of $500,000 a year from his rentals in Sheffield. Frank Clifford, of New York, owns a collection of buttons numbering over 9,000 specimens. Senator Hili, who is leading the fight for the Sunday opening of New York saloons, does not drink. The Akron Democrat says Senator Quay carries the left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit in his pocket Silas Forman, of Jacksonville, Fla., is a collector of rattlesnakes. He has accumulated twenty-six of the reptiles. A very young Pole, M. Stanislas Melker, of Warsaw, won the SI,OOO Rubinstein prize for the best pianoforte concerts at Berlin this year. Berlin’s oldest inhabitant is a shoemaker named Prenzel, who is now 101. Till four years ago he worked at hia trade. He smokes and drinks coffee. Sir 'William Harcourt has taken to driving mules; he rides through the New Forest in a phaeton drawn by a pair that has been presented to him.