Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1899 — PERTINENT Personals [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PERTINENT Personals

Lieut. Col. Picquarts salary is $3.60 a day. Carl Browne is preaching from Kansas pulpits. Gov. Stanley of Kansas smokes cubeb cigarettes. George Gould's chief delight is polo. He rides horseback every day. Amateur photography is the chief diversion of the Princess of Wales. Neosho. Mo, has named its new public school in honor of Eugene Field. Joseph Hatton, the author and journalist, takes a ten-mile walk every day. King Charles of Ronmania has published his reminiscences jn three volumes. In her yonth Virginia Fair Vanderbilt was passionately fond of playing marbles. Earl Rosslyn has fallowed the Earl of Warwick's example and incorporated bimself. Rudyard Kipling is said to be the first poet who could afford to travel in a private car. Czarina Alix has become a golfer, and will introduce the game at the Russian court. The Duchess of Sutherland is writing a aovek She will give the proceeds to cnarity. Admiral Sampson weighs thirty pounds less than he did at the opening of the war w ; ts Spain. Collis P. Huntington says that the best way to become rich is not to talk during business hours. M. Dclcasse, French minister of foreign affairs, can speak all of the modern European languages. Siam's crown prince is a student at Harrow, England. He is popular with his schoolfellows. ‘ Henri Becque, the French playwright, who died the other day, smoked on an average 200 cigarets a day. Baroness Burdett-Cbutts, who has just celebrated her righty-fourth birthday, has a fortune of $10,000,000. For a while President McKinley smoked a briar pipe, but found it as injurious in its effects as cigars were. lan Madam has traveled 11,000 miles in America, visited twenty-six Stateu and lectured in cities. Fraas Ebert, the Liliputian, was naturalised in New York last week, whtn he foreswore allegiance to the Kaiser.