Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1900 — Personal Paragraphs. [ARTICLE]

Personal Paragraphs.

Jerome K. Jerome usually spends his vacations on a farm, where he enjoys daily labor in the fields. Judge Gottfried Krueger of Newark, N. J., has had a mausoleum built for himself at a cost of SIOO,OOO. Col. William L. Prather, the new president of the University of Texas, says that lynching is the greatest curse of the South. The Rev. L. C. Hulberg, a missionary, is said to be the original discoverer of Cape Nome gold deposits. Gov. Stone of Pennsylvania expresses the opinion that every husband should deed to his wife the homestead. Joseph G. Darlington has been elected president of the Philadelphia Union League for th? twenty-ninth time. The Cape Times says Cecil Rhodes will present bronze medals to all the soldiers engaged in the relief of Kimberley. Lieut. Henry Conell, who was Gomez’s aid during the Cuban war, is now a student in Boston University law school.