Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1897 — PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Phil A. I’enna, Who succeeds John McBride as president of the United Mine | Workers of America, is S 8 years old, a native of England and a resident of Linton, Ind. Health Officer Demnrest, of Cincinnati, bears an extraordinary resemblance to the late Chester A. Arthur. He ha» iron gray hair and is Inclined to embonpoint. Dr. George H. Williamson, of the Mis eouri pehtientlary, at Jefferson City, vaccinated the 2,200 inmates of that institution, three days -oping required for the purpose. Sobe Love, a quarter-breed Indian how lffring in Oil Springs, I. T., Is said to bava celebrated 600 weddings in the days when the territory was a Gretna Green for near-by States. This is the age of youthful potentates. Alfonso, King of Spain, U 8 years old; the Queen of the Netherlands, 14; the Kiug erf Servla, 18; the khedive, 20; the Chinese Emperor, 23; the czar, 26. Rawllneon, the famous Babylonian authority 00 Cuneiform Inscriptions, wae not a graduate <jf any oollege or University. His enholastin education wm ddfclved from a Kaall institution At Ealing, a small town in England* Rev. Sabins-Barlng-GoOlO, the author of the popular hymn, “Onward, Christian Soldiers,” is at once a country parson, a country squire, a lord of the manor, a earmon writer, a student of comparative theology, a popular »ovel- ’ Ist and a poet.

Richard Reddick, a colored man of Pittsburg, it Is said, was oorn In 1703. His grandfather was a soldier of the revolution, and won freedom for himself and fsmU> in the war of independence. They were registered as fre« negroes In the eourt house at Bttohmcajd, Va., July 4, 1777. The Boarmafi Manual Training School at New Haven fla* received a gilt of apparatus from General Edwin 8. Greeley, of New York. It eonslsfei df galvanometers, rheostats and ethgr article* used In electrical exptrllhentaticn and measurement They are rained at several thousand dollar*. A prosperous Philadelphia banker was noticed by several Mends a ftw days ago on a suburban train deeply absorbed In a large tablfof 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. Flnafiy, 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 sohednle.