Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1897 — PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

A six months’ old Kansas babj veighs forty-five pounds. The Duke of Norfolk has an Income jf $500,000 a year from h!s rentals it ■iketfleld. Frank Clifford, of New York, owns a collection of buttons numbering ovei 4,000 specimens. Senator Hill, who Is leading the tight (or the Sunday opening of New York saloons, does not drink. The Akron Democrat says Senato: 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. Pill four years ago he worked at his trade. He smokes and drinks coffee. Sir William Harcourt has taken to driving mules; he rides through thcr New Forest In a phaeton drawn by a pair that has been presented to him.