Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1904 — BREVITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BREVITIES

THE HALL OF FAME. Geronlmo, the old Apache chief, stoutly insists that he never was captured by General Miles. James W. Eldridge of Hartford, Conn., owns the saddle that Jeff Davis used during most of the war. The oldest speculator in Wall street is Edward B. Wesley, now ninetythree, He watches the ticker closely every day. Joseph Jefferson says he was hissed on the stage once. He was four years old and tried to sing “The Star Spangled Banner.” Dr. Eugene May of Washington has lectured 1,000 tinjes In the past seven years and has been at seventy-five Chautauquas in five years. President Loubet of France loves nothing better than to escape from court duty and go on a bunting expedition. He is well read, fond of music and an admirer of painting. Dr. John Dill Robertson, the Chicago physician who recently gained much notoriety by advocating leas bathing, has been elected president of the Illinois State Eclectic Medical society. Albert Bressee of Hubbardston, Vt, who died recently, was the originator and promoter of the famous Early Rose potato, which has had a continuous popularity for over thirty years. Colonel J. E. Thayer of Lancaster, Mass., Is building a museum in his town to contain his magnificent collection of birds of North America, a collection which even the government at Washington cannot surpass. Samuel Higgins, the new general manager of the New Haven road, has just been presented with a handsome silver service from the members of the labor organizations of the Southern railroad. James J. Hill, the pioneer railroad king, has an aversion for telephones and never uses one when he can help it He maintains offices in several cities, but none of them is equipped with that modern convenience so essential to the average business man. Mrs. McClellan, wife of the New York maj'or, is one of the most unassuming women in the Empire City. She has never cared a rap about society. Anything in the way of a large function appalls her. As the daughter of Johu G. Heckscher she was born to assured position.