Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — PERTINENT Personal; [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PERTINENT Personal;

Ex-Gov. White off C&kmado ha* became a rich man. is mining. Tbe oil wells off Senator Roger Q. Mills are said to net him about SMW a day. Hobson is said to be writing n memoir of his experiences to the Spanish war. Dr. Goman Doyle is described as tall, bluff, hearty, and an enthusiastic crick* ettr. Admiral Sampson graduated from the naval academy At the head off his class to ISGL Secretary Gage is said to be a passionate sportsman, and a temarkaldy good shot. Queen WDhrimina of Holland is a firm believer in and a stout supporter off the Salvation army. Dr. Scott Schley, the youngest son off the admiral, ha* begun tbe practice of medicine in New York. Miss Flora Shaw, who is now. to the Klondike, is the woman connected with the London end off tbe Jameson raid. lan Mnriaren, who is to Hectare to th* West next spring, is said to intend remaining to tibia country for at least a year. W. D. Howells, the novelist, is cud to be contemplating a trip to London, where he will he the geest of I leery James. Captain Sigsbce's artist daughter, Mary Ellen, has area tbe competition for a scholarship in (he Art Stndenta' League, Burnett, the Harvard football player, says’that be was not tbe original "little Lord Fxnntieroy.” That honor *rTnin to his brother. Gov. Ftagree of Michigan storied Sffe a poor mill hand. Now be is tbe bead of a business, the valve of tbe yearly product of which is about The empress dowager off China is Si years off age. Her title runs aa follows? Tbe death of off W zohingtoa leaves Gen. Horace Dorter, now ambassador to Paris, tbe only sorvtving member off Gem. U. S. Grant’s pcfaon ml staff. Helen Keller, tbe deaf, damb and hSni girl who is abont to enter Radrfifie College, Cambridge, has become a devotee off tbe Hereto, riding a tandem with Miss Sullivan, her teacher. OoL John A. Watkins, the Indian historian, who died to New Chiron* the ocher day, was a veteran off tbe Mexican wan, mad a direct descendant off Joseph Wak