Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1900 — Odds and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odds and Ends.

Lebanon Gevers, the new minister of the Netherlands to Washington, is a grandson of Senator Wright of Now Jersey. Monthly summaries of the commerce of the Philippines, Cuba and Porto Rico will hereafter be made, in pamphlet fprm, by the War Department. Secretary Long has made an interesting collection of the naval flags and signals of all nations. Many of these flags are the gift of famous sailors of this and other countries. The "bloodiest battle of the century” was that of Borodino, a Russian village, where Napoleon fopght the Russians on Sept. 7, 1812. Nearly 80,000 men were placed hors du combat. Dr. John P. Wood of Coffeyville,"Kan., insists that he is the oldest practicing physician in the world. He is 99 years ohl, and still makes daily visits to his patients. Miss Estelle Reel, superintendent of Indrau schools, is preparing a bill to present to Congress which will have for its object the compulsory education of Indian children. Gov. N. O. Murphy of Arizona has been in Washington to urge action for the admission of Arizona as a State. "1 think the prospects for Arizona becoming a State next year good,” he says.