Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Phil A. Penna, who succeeds John Me. Bride as president of the United Mine Workers of America, is 38 years old, a native of England and a resident of Linton, Ind. Health Officer Demarest, of Cincinnati, bears an extraordinary resemblance to the late Chester A. Arthur. He has Iron gray hair and is inclined to embon'point. Dr. George H. Williamson, of the Missouri pentientiary, at Jefferson City, vaccinated the 2,200 Inmates of that institution, three days -oelng required for the purpose. Sobe Love, a quarter-breed Indian now living in Oil Springs, I. T., Is said to have celebrated 500 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, is 8 years old; the Queen of the Netherlands, 14; the Klug of Servia, 18; the khedive, 20; the Chinese Emperor, 28; the czar, 26. Rawlinson, the famous Babylonian authority on cuneiform inscriptions, was not a graduate of any college or university. His scholastic education waa derived from a small Institution kt Ealing, a small town In England. Bev. Sablne-Baring-Gould, the author of the popular hymn, “Onward, Christian Soldiers,” is at once a country parson, a country squire, a lord of the manor, a ssrmon writer, a student of comparative theology, a popular noveltot and a poet.