Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1907 — Brevities [ARTICLE]

Brevities

THE HALL OF FAME. After being six minutes under water Amadee Martel, a schoolboy of Northboro, Mass., was recovered and resuscitated. William A. Breene, a laborer of Washington, Pa., was so overcome by the news that he had inherited SIOO,000 that he died of the shock. President Roosevelt has written to Dr. Jackson, secretary of the American committee which is erecting a monument to Calvin in Geneva. Switzerland, accepting the presidency of the committee. George W. McKenney, who has been for seven years postmaster of North Sebago, is, it is said, the oldest postmaster in Maine. Although he is eighty-two years old. he manages the office In a satisfactory manner. Joseph Knight, since 1883 editor of Notes and Queries and dramatic critic of the Globe, Athenaeum and other periodicals, died In London at the age of seventy-eight years. He was the author of many theatrical works. J. W. Beers of West View, Pa., has one of the most valuable libraries of shorthand works in the world: He has books and pamphlets on the subject by the thousands, and they include practically all the systems invented since the year 1700. Alonzo Smith of Skowhegan, Me., has an old gun which was used in the battle of Bunker Hill. 131 years ago, by his great-grandfather. The gun is In working order, barring the loss of the flint, and could be easily equipped for actual use. Duke Ulrich of Wurttenjberg deals in cakes and oatmeal, and, in conjunction with Prince Christian Hohenlohe, he manufactures corsets, sold under the name of “Hohenlohe corsets,” which have a vast sale among south German ladles on account of their princely trademark. Since his retirement from public life Hon. William S. Forman, who used to be In congress from the East St. Louis (III.) district and who afterward was commissioner of Internal revenue, has built up a large and lucrative law practice In East St. Louis, of which he has been for many years a leading citizen. Asa G- Candler of Atlanta has subscribed $75,000 to the Wesley memorial enterprise, launched by the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. Candler is one of the wealthiest men in the south. Thirty-two years ago he tramped to Atlanta from his country home tn the state, bis only asset being theclotheshewore.

The degree of doctor of medicine has been conferred upon Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, C. M. G., by the University of Oxford,, causa honoris, in recognition of the work he has achieved in Improving the social condition of the Labrador fisher folk. The honor bestowed upon him by his old university Is all the more marked by reason of Its being the first honorary M. D. degree conferred by Oxford.