Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1897 — PERTINENT Personals [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PERTINENT Personals

J. H. R. Molson, a wealthy banker ot Montreal, has given $155,000 to Canadian charities. The Crown Princess of Sweden has taken to bicycle riding for her health, and has already found the exercise beneficial. The French ambassador to Great Britain is the best paid ambassador in the world, his yearly salary being SOO,OOO. Peter L. Holst of Chicago, a native of Norway, is the oldest mnn to apply for naturalization in this country. He is 92 years old. The Rev. Henry Rupp, now in his 93d year, is the oldest preacher in Illinois, and still preaches every Sunday, being strong and vigorous. Gen. Benjamin Prentiss, the “hero of Shiloh,” at one time one of the wealthiest men in Illinois, is said to be in meager circumstances. A report that Ruskin’s mind is becoming feeble is denied. He is thoughtful and quiet, it is said, but his intelligenc« is not at all impaired. The will of Mrs. Surah Withers of Bloomington, Ind., bequeaths $40,000 tc found a library in Nicholasville, Ky., where she was born. Dr. Emma Wakefield, who has just sueceessfully passed an examination, is the first colored woman to be licensed to practice medicine in Louisiana. Rev. O. W. Hutchinson of Watertown, Mass., has declined the presidency of Grant University, Chattanooga, Tenn., tc which he was recently elected. J. S. Cathon, of 126 Superior street, Cleveland, Ohio, was killed at Denver by falling from the observatory of the Equitable Bußdiug, a dlstauc* of 425 feet.