Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1900 — PERTINENT Personal; [ARTICLE]

PERTINENT Personal;

Zola, at 21, often went hungry. Attorney General Griggs is a crack shot. Ex-United States Senator Sawyer is 83 years of age, George Gould has purchased one of the finest packs of fox hounds in England. President McKinley's favorite game is chess. He is quite an expert player. In the paper mill owned hy Gov. Crane at Dalton, Mass., workmen who become too old to labor arc retired on their regu Inr salary as long as they live. The King of Sweden never touches a gun. The King of Belgium has shot only once in his life, nud the Sultun of Turkey cannot bear to see a gun. The late William Dickey, who wsa a member of the Maine Legislature for fifty-nine years, made the longest record for service of that kind in the State. Joseph L. Mayers, State Senator of Ohio from Coshocton, walked to capital from his homo a distance of IUO miles, to show his independence of railroads. Representative Littlefield of Maine, who favors the prohibition laws of the State, was embarrassed at a euchre party in Woshington by winning as a prise a handsome beer stein. United States Senator Nelson was born In Norway. Maine's Legislature ordered a trust of exHpenker Reed, t Miss Floretts Viiling of Hull, Mass., owns nine newspapers. Former Senator lugalls* mother la still, living an active life in Boston at the advanced age of 90 years. President Eliot of Harvard is something of s pedestrian.. He frequently walks from Cambridge into Boston. Of the twenty-five men who have filled the Governor's cbalr J la Ipdisna Gov. Mount is the only one living.