Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1898 — PERTINENT Personals [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PERTINENT Personals

Dwight Moody, the evangelist, is said to have received $1,250,000 for his "gospel" hymns. Congressman William Alden Smith of Michigan was a newsboy in Grand Rapids only twenty years ago. General E. H. Hobson, the newly-elect-ed president of the Veterans of the Mexican War, served also in the civil war. Miss Ruth White of San Francisco, is' eaid to bear so striking a resemblance to the Liberty on the new dimes that her friends supposed her the model. The death of Bayard recalls the fact that he and his father were the two Senators from Delaware just after the close of the civil war. This is a political fact without a parallel. Miss Mary French McKay has’become prominent in Denver by claiming to be the , best woman fencer in the world, and offers to prove her title anywhere and at any time. Jean Francois Millet, fils, who is now traveling in America, has said that what impressed him most iu this country is the “just veneration" in which his father’s work is held. ' Miss Anna Bouligny\ of New Orleans, who assisted Miss Chanier as a nurse iu Puerto Rico, is the great-great-grand-daughter of the Lieut. Bienville who founded her native city. The commission of John Hay to be Secretary of State credits him to the District of Columbia. This is the first time that a citizen credited to the District. has ever been appointed to a Cabinet position. Marching side by side in Company F, Ninth Illinois Infantry, were Sergt. Edward Gjulley, who was six feet six inches tall, and Private Frederick H. Gaerig, who measured erly five fwt two inches.