Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1902 — PERTINENT Personals [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PERTINENT Personals

President Roosevelt shaves himself every day. Gen. Miles will retire in eighteen months. Senator Vest's friends fear he may not live to serve his term out. Senator Spfioner prefers a place in the Senate to a cabinet portfolio. The strength of the staff of the Governor of Georgia is thirty colonels. Senator Beveridge says there are no longer any wizards in Wall street. Richard Croker has sworn to a personal assessment of $25,000 in New York. Clark E. Carr is being talked of as Governor of the American (Danish! West Indies. William McCroskey of Washington is the youngest Governor in the L'uited States. Willie K. Vanderbilt has an automobile which goes faster than a mile a minute. Senator Penrose (ft Pennsylvania says the l'uited Stutes Senate needs more members. William Boucher of Baltimore, whs made the first screwhead banjo iu 1847, is still living. Gov. Mcßride of Washington will discharge any State employe who accepts a railroad pass. Charles T. Yerkes paid Benjamin Constant of Paris $30,000 to paint his (Yerkes’l portrait. Capt. Oberlln M. Carter, so his friends ■ay, is dying at the Fort Leavenworth prison of a broken heart. President Roosevelt has aged consid* erably during the six months he has occupied the White douse.