Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1899 — PERTINENT Personals [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PERTINENT Personals

Admiral Schley Is proud of the full-dress uniform which he wears on ceremonial occasions. Gen. Palmer is preparing a series of articles reminiscent of linculn. with whom be was intimate. The Queen of Grve*e is the only woman admiral in the world. She holds this rank in the Russian navy. Ex-Got. Taylor of Tennessee granted <2Ct pardons, commutations and respite* daring his two years in office. - Before Representative Jerry Simps, ,n became a ranchman h“ was for several years a sailor on the great lakes. Secretary Long is not fond of society, and generally prefers not to take i>art in that side of Washington life. John K. Mclcaa has offered to defray the cost of eollectiitg a complete history of Ohio for the Congressional Library. James F. Warner, well known over all the Northwest as a miner and promoter, is the original of Mark Twain's "Colonel Mulberry Sellers." The next Senate will hare three members who have given considerable attention to elocution. They are Senators Quarles of Wisconsin. Beveridge of Indiana and Simon of Oregnn. N. B. Scott, the new Senator from West Virginia, made his fortune, like Senator Turner of Washington, in mining. He was born in a log cabin and was left an orphan while still a small boy. Representative Francis G. New lands, who was a rival of William M. Stewart in the Nevada senatorial fight, is an old crony of Senator George P. Wet more of Rhode Island, whose classmate he was at Yale. Gov. J. G. Brady of Alaska was once a homeless boy in New York. He was scut to an lowa farmer by the Children's Aid Society, which later assisted hint through college. He first went to Alaska as a Gen. Otis, the commander of onr forces in the Philippines, is said to be a man of laconic speech who rarely utters more than one short sentence at a time, but manages to nuke that sentence epigrammatic and fall of meaning. Gov. Stanley of Kansas recently received this note: “Dear Sir: I understand yon said yon was going to take a week off to tear np the big pile of letters asking yoa for job*. If everything else is gone, I would like the job of tearing np letters." Captain John H. Surratt, whose mother was hanged for the murder of President Lincoln, is a trusted employe of a Baltimore steamship line Congressman James A. Tawney of Minnesota own* the last communication in writing-made by the late -Repres-aUtiv* Dinglcy. ' ~ f Judge William Butler of Philadelphia, who has resigned from the bench of the United States District Coart. learned the trade of a (winter in the other of the West Chester (Pl.| Village Record. Among the other boys in the office at the same time eras Bayard Taylor.

figraMtiMlrSnStlcK 1 cago Sunday night, Feb. tt. Thera in the J STwindyCSty* fra the praSrihrais 1 of a play ever made in tibia country, and ; it has moreover scored the biggest hot of { !he theatrical season in New York, where k has just completed a ran of twenty weeks at t* Academy of Mode, ing Life*' is a melodrama of English £ft and ia said to be tbe beat ptay of its kind ever brought from across the garni. It tells tbe story of a fine, maty, hwnaaahh ! young Englishman, the Bari of Woodstock, who loves sport fra sport's sake ‘ and has risked his whole fortune through his ‘love for his magnificent stable of thoroughbreds. Tbe story goes through five acts, during which the evil genii off the play try their level best to wrack Ida fortunes, but he finally triumphs after a series of thrilling adventures. Sixteen different scenes are shown. Two hundred - people take part in the performance. Robert Hilliard, who plays the heroic young Britisher, is one off the handsomest and cleverest American actors. He has hem a successful star and was induced to arson mo this role by the offer of the largest salary ever paid to an actor in the worid. Klita Proctor Otis is also a successful star. She is considered tbe best player of the stage adventuress we have; Joe j WheeiiK'k is another ex-star; Frank Burbeck has starred, and so has Jeannette Lowrie. Frazer Coulter. Robert Palota Gibbs, R. A. Roberts, who staged ~Shraandoah" aDd also stages “Spratrag lalte"; Adeline Adler, Charles F. Gotthold. Edwin Holland and Margaret May are some of the prominent players in the organization.