Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1903 — PERTINENT PERSONAL; [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PERTINENT PERSONAL;

Henry Sanger Snow has resigned the presidency of the Brooklyn polytechnic Institute. The Her. Dr. Lnther F. Beecher, cousin of the late Henry Ward Beecher, died at Boston recently. Dr. J. Wilson Swan, inventor of the incandescent electric light, haa just entered his 76th year. The Astors are gradually disposing of their real estate holdings in the tenement district of New York. Dr. Edward Everett Hale in a recent lecture said that women must shoulder the musket in order to achieve equal suffrage.,’ i. W. Lamar, who claimed to be the last surviving schoolmate of Abraham .Lincoln, is dead at Buffaloville, Ind., aged 85. Lieut Gov. Guild of Massachusetts has added a full set of Filipino dagger* of quaint design to M* collection es

S. W. Nichols of the Jacksonville (Fla.) Journal has donated SIO,OOO for a public park in his town. W. T. Swingle has returned to Washington after a study of plants in the regions about the Mediterranean. James Putnam Stewart of Louisville, a direct descendant of Gen. Israel Putnam, is writing the history of the Putnam family. A. B. Seizer of San Francisco has brought suit for divorce against his wife because the spirits told him she no longer loved him. Gen. O. A. Whittier, who was in charge of the Uuited States customs at Manila, came home by way of the Tronsiberian road. He crossed Siberia in fourteen days. Prof. B. L. Garner, the “monkey man,” has gone to the west African coast again to study the simian tribe and learn their language. John Palmer, a full blood Ponca Indian and an Oklahoma lawyer, will address the forthcoming session of the Oklahoma Bar Association. Dr. Carlos J. Findlay of Havana, well known for his work on yellow fever, has been chosen president of the American Public Health Association. On* of the leading article* of export from the Philippine Islands Is hemp.