Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1904 — PERTINENT PERSONALS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PERTINENT PERSONALS

Joseph Jefferson has declined to visit Australia, where, forty years ago, he made a great hit with “Rip Van Winkle.” A tablet is to be erected in memory of John Adam Dasyr, the first shoemaker in Lynn, Mass., and the founder of that dty’a great industry. Senator Tillman of South Carolina is credited with knowing more as. to the contents of the Bible than the average member of the Senate. Senator Daniel of Virginia says the nineteenth century produced five generals who could be called great—Napoleon, Wellington, Von Moltke, Grant SDd Robert E. Lee. John D. Rockefeller proposes to plant three carloads of young maple trees on his estate at Tarrytown, N. Y. A set of silver mounted dueling pistols once owned*by JJeorge Washington was purchased by a New York dealer the other day at an auction. Two Southern Congressmen served in the volunteer army during the Spanish war —A. A. Wiley of Alabama and Wyatt Aiken of Sooth Carolina. At a bear hunt in Maryland lately the Bar. S. M. Engle, pastor of th* Presbyterian Church at Parsons, W. Ya., killed two of the_tbree bears bagged.